BATC Wiki

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?

• 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

Getting on the air with ATV

The ATV bands:

• 146 MHz RB-TV
• 70cms Analogue TV
• 70cms DATV
• 23cms ATV
• 23cms DATV
• 13cms
• 3.4 GHz DATV
• 5.6 GHz
• 10 GHz

The different ATV modes

• Reduced bandwidth TV (RB-TV)

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.

Operating

• Directory of portable sites suitable for ATV and microwave operation
• 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 2016-09-16)

ATV repeaters

• UK ATV repeaters
• USA ATV repeaters
• Australian TV repeaters

• Technical topics for ATV repeater builders

BATC Event Streaming Equipment

• Equipment Description

ATV construction projects

• MiniTioune - the DATV USB tuner project
• 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
• SUP2400 mods - SUP2400 70cms to L band upconverter hardware modifications
• SUP2400 DiSEqC - SUP2400 70cms to L band upconverter DiSEqC control PCBs
• PE4302 - PE4302 variable attenuator project

ATV Equipment manuals and schematics

• Comtech module - 23cms and 13cms ATV Tx and Rx circuits and guides
• Solent ATV units - Tx and Rx circuits and information

Ex commercial broadcast equipment manuals

• NDS System 3000
• NDS Alteia rx

Test equipment manuals

For HP and Agilent equipment see the Yahoo group