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Amateur Television is a fascinating area of Amateur Radio covering all aspects of video production, editing, transmission and reception of Television and has always been at the fore front of the technology revolution. Many stations are now transmitting Digital pictures (DATV) using the DVB broadcast standards and using video streaming technologies to exchange pictures with ATV operators around the world. | Amateur Television is a fascinating area of Amateur Radio covering all aspects of video production, editing, transmission and reception of Television and has always been at the fore front of the technology revolution. Many stations are now transmitting Digital pictures (DATV) using the DVB broadcast standards and using video streaming technologies to exchange pictures with ATV operators around the world. | ||
| − | And you're probably here because you want to know more about Amateur Television | + | And you're probably here because you want to know more about Amateur Television and so help you get to grips with the basics of our hobby, BATC has put together a series of "Getting started" booklets. |
A good place to start is by reading the [[Media:GettingstartedinATVbatc.pdf|Getting Started in ATV leaflet]]. | A good place to start is by reading the [[Media:GettingstartedinATVbatc.pdf|Getting Started in ATV leaflet]]. | ||
Revision as of 16:36, 2 June 2016
Amateur Television is a fascinating area of Amateur Radio covering all aspects of video production, editing, transmission and reception of Television and has always been at the fore front of the technology revolution. Many stations are now transmitting Digital pictures (DATV) using the DVB broadcast standards and using video streaming technologies to exchange pictures with ATV operators around the world.
And you're probably here because you want to know more about Amateur Television and so help you get to grips with the basics of our hobby, BATC has put together a series of "Getting started" booklets.
A good place to start is by reading the Getting Started in ATV leaflet.
To find out more about receiving and transmitting ATV signals download these "Getting started" guides:
DATV reception
DATV transmission
And to find out more about the latest technology called Reduced Bandwidth Digital television (RBTV) take a look at this RB-TV special edition of CQ-TV and then our getting started guide to RB-TV.
If you want to know more about the basics of video signals, Brian Summers has written a series of articles for CQ-TV which are available for downloads as part of our "getting started" series.
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