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Revision as of 16:21, 15 August 2017
Welcome to the British Amateur Television Club Wiki - the place to find information on on all Amateur Television related equipment and projects.
This is a reference library - please use the BATC forum for discussion on these or any other items.
This is your site, developed by the BATC for use by the worldwide ATV community - any information which you feel is of use to others can be put on the Wiki but please observe any copyright restrictions on your material you use. However, before you can add or edit content you will need to register for an account.
Contents
- Registering on the BATC wiki
New to Amateur TV?
- Glossary and index of terms and TLAs used in Amateur Television Glossary of terms
- Get the basics in our collection of Getting Started guides
BATC Information and services
- Joining the BATC
- Renewing your membership
- Resetting your password
- The BATC.TV video streaming service
- The BATC video archive
- The BATC forum
- The BATC shop
CQ-TV Magazine
- Index of articles
- Archive editions download
- Project software download
BATC Event Streaming Equipment
Presentations from BATC conventions
- Presentations from CAT 16 Presentations and links to the videos from the 2016 convention.
- Video Recordings from previous ATV Conventions can be found on the BATC YouTube Channel.
Getting on the air with ATV
The ATV bands:
- 146 MHz RB-TV
- 70cms Analogue TV
- 70cms DATV
- 23cms Analogue TV
- 23cms DATV
- 13cms
- 3.4 GHz DATV
- 5.6 GHz
- 10 GHz
The different ATV modes
- Reduced bandwidth TV (RB-TV)
Operating
- ATV standards - a list of standards used by ATV operators including FM bandwidths, DATV PIDs, symbol rates and FEC
- Directory of portable sites suitable for ATV and microwave operation
- Google map showing possible portable operating sites
- Mapping tools including finding the QRA locator of a site, UK postcode to Lat and Long conversion and a topographic overlay for Google maps
- Propagation tools
- Known DATV DX Records - a list of Known DX Records for Digital-ATV (last revised 2017-06-02)
ATV repeaters
ATV construction projects
- The Portsdown Transmitter - the BATC's Raspberry Pi-based DATV Transmitter
- MiniTioune - the DATV USB receiver project
- Receiver upconverters - Details of upconverters to receive 146 and 437 MHz on STB and MiniTioune
- DigiThin - plug in QPSK modulator module for Rpi
- DTX1 TS - interface board to take in TS streams to the DTX1
- RpiDATV - software for the Rpi
- RBTVMOD - variable rate RB-TV mdulator for the Rpi
- DATVExpress - SDR hardware based DATV transmitter covering 70 - 2450 MHz
- RPi Test Card - Raspberry Pi based Animated Test Card Generator
- PE4302 - PE4302 variable attenuator project
- ADF435x PIC - PIC controllers for Chinese ADF4350/4351 boards
Useful Circuits and notes
- Filters - Collection of links and designs for that most critical but over looked component!
- Pre-amps - Notes, suppliers and circuits of power amplifiers suitable for ATV
- Power amplifiers - Notes, suppliers and circuits of power amplifiers suitable for ATV
- Video circuits - Notes and circuits for video processing
- Satellite receiver tuning offsets - Note on how to set up a satellite receiver to directly receive L band signals.
ATV Equipment manuals and schematics
- Bob Platts G8OZP Circuits and documentation for the Bob Platts range of equipment
- Comtech module - 23cms and 13cms ATV Tx and Rx circuits and guides
- Solent ATV units - Tx and Rx circuits and information
- Wood & Douglas FM TV equipment - Circuits, pcb layouts and information
- LMW Electronics - Circuits, pcb layouts and information
- Glencom - VC-510 VHF to L band up converter circuit diagram and modifications
- Global communications - Hand drawn circuit of tuneable 70 / 140 MHz to L band block up converter
Ex commercial broadcast equipment manuals
Test equipment manuals
For HP and Agilent equipment see the Yahoo group