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-==Winter Hill==
+See [[WinterHill_Receiver_Project]]
-The Winter Hill receiver project by Brian G4EWJ with hindrance and occasional help from Mike G0MJW. It uses the BATC [[Advanced receiver hardware]].
-The software will run on the Raspberry Pi4 desktop environment providing a multi-channel receiver capable of receiving up to four channels simultaneously.
-==Features==
-•	WinterHill is a 4 channel DVB-S/S2 receiver based on the BATC Advanced Receiver PCB
-•	The main components are a Raspberry Pi 4 (RPi4), 2 FTS433x NIMs, 2 PICs and 2 optional LNB PSU boards
-•	The PICs are programmed in-circuit
-•	The RPi4 software is based on LongMynd by M0HMO
-•	The RPi4 interfaces to each NIM using a PIC, rather than an FT2232H USB module
-•	The 4 received transport streams (TS) can be sent to any location using UDP protocol
-•	Transport streams are displayed either locally or remotely using VLC
-•	Receive commands can come from various sources, including QO-100 LiveTune designed by M0DTS
-•	The highest symbol rate is limited by the speed of the serial connections between devices and is about 10M bit/s per NIM. E.g. the QO-
-beacon at SR1500 FEC4/5 (2.4Mbps) and a terrestrial repeater at SR4000 FEC7/8 (7Mbps) should be OK.
-•	Currently, the lowest symbol rate that can be received is 66kS.
-•	WinterHill is named in memory of Brian G3SMU, who was a huge presence on ATV and microwaves from his Winter Hill QTH in Lancashire, North-West England
-== Timeline==
-December 2020 - Currently the project is at the design phase with a proof of concept receiver working on breadboard hardware.
-February 2021 - beta testing in progress
-March 2021 - First production PCBs expected
-==Hardware==
-The PCB design by Mike G0MJW is based on a completely new concept, BATC Advanced DATV Receiver, supporting two SERIT tuners with an integrated Raspberry PI4 and PICs. No USB module is required. This supports 4 simultaneous receivers in either a set top box mode, with the PI desktop, or headless, or a combination of these.
-====Version 0.1====
-Feasibility design which worked fine
-====Version 0.2====
-A prototype that was also built by several beta testers. Two pin programming jumper instead of 3 pin and didn't fit in the box.
-====Version 1====
-First general release PCB - Likely release March 2021
-==Documentation==
-Raspberry Pi4 SD Card Building and Software Installation Manual (contains software download details)
-Operation Manual
-PC Control and Viewing Utilities Manual
-==Software==
-PC Control and Viewing Software

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