Atv newsletter March 31, 2009 Circulation 1500+ Vol. 2 No. 34 In this Edition
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| ATV Newsletter March 31, 2009 Circulation 1500+ Vol. 2 No. 34 In this Edition: * World News this Week * 2009 Communications Academy Streaming Video Event * San Bernardino Microwave Society Meeting "Tech-Talk" * Update on ATV link to Arizona * Amateur Television Quarterly * Digital-ATV * Buy-Sell-Trade * Plug and Play 2.4 GHz Transmitters * 70cm Transcivers * Wireless Mic's with PTL * 900 MHz downconverters * ATV Repeater Controllers * ATV Guide * Proposed Upcoming Live Webcasts on BATC.TV * ATV Website Guide * Oat Mtn. News * This weeks Joke * Southern California News * ATN-CA Winter Meeting Update * Is Point Loma Moving? * Repeater Reports * Repairs Needed * Letters to the Editor __________________________________________________________ World News this Week __________________________________________________________ ^ Streaming Video Event Mario, KD6ILO will be streaming video from the event starting at 11:00 AM PDST Saturday April 4th. For more info on the event http://www.commacademy.org/ Mario will have a display of a basic ATV receive station in the main entrance hall. (1.2 GHz & 434 MHz & a 434 MHz Portable transmitter). Mario will also have his ECRT-Emergency Communications Response Team Mobile Vehicle to relay his ATV Repeater signal from Tacoma and Ted's (W7TED) ATV repeater in Puyallup, Washington to his display in the main hall. Besides all that Mario will also be setup to receive Don's (KE6BXT) BATC streaming video from Santiago Peak in Southern California as well as Slingbox feed so viewers can see how the link relay works. To tune-in and watch go to www.batc.tv and then look for the "members streams' button and click on it. Then on the drop down tab look for KD6ILO stream and click on it and then click on "watch". ^ Society Meeting "Tech-Talk" If you would like a word or two on the subject of the SBMS Tech-Talk in it's upcoming meeting here is some info from Walter Clark.
using microwave and light.
demonstration equipment.
demonstrate the optical aspects of polarization. San Bernardino Microwave Society Meeting ^ 7:00 to 9:00 PM PDST Starts @ 0300 UTC to 0500 UTC Friday You can watch the SBMS Meeting on the The METS ATV Repeaters as well as or the ATN-CA Repeaters in Southern California or Go to the "ATV Guide" section under Thursday and see how you can watch from anywhere in the world via a BATC.TV Streaming video. Everyone is welcomed. Thank you Walter for letting us know the topic of this months Tech-Talk. I will be watching. Update on ATV link to Arizona Many years ago Matt Krick of Golden Valley AZ - outside of Kingman - was talking about building a link from Las Vegas to Phoenix. If I recall correctly he gave up the idea because he could not find a site in the Hualapai Mountains overlooking Kingman AZ Tests were made back then and there was line of site to Mt Potosi in Las Vegas and White Tanks west of Phoenix. Matt's email is - or was - xxxxx and I forwarded your newsletter to him. Perhaps he'll get back to you. From what I hear the White Tanks repeater is no longer operational. Ask Ron AE6QU about it. There is no ATN-AZ activity at all and the only activity is on the AATV repeater - and even there there is almost none. Bil Munsil K1ATV HAM TV Hams should be seen as well as heard. Mesa AZ Thanks for the update Bil. Here is some feedback from Matt on the the Arizona link: Working on moving into a new house so ham is kinda on the back burner at the moment. There is some hope to gain building space on Low Getz peak during the KGMN-FM rebuild project. Thanks for your feedback Matt. ^ The ATVQ is in the mail and you should be receiving your winter edition in the mail soon. ________________________________________________ Digital-ATV ________________________________________________ ************************************************************ Send me your D-ATV News.. atv-newsletter@hotmail.com _______________________________________________ Buy-Sell-Trade _______________________________________________ ^ If you are interested in getting on ATV with a 2.4 GHz FM transmitter I have them for sale. The transmitter has an output of about 9 watts and will sell for about $1500 plus shipping depending upon the configuration you need. If you are interested in a transmitter you can send me an email and we can talk. ^ and Play ATV Transmitters have caused a delay of 6 to 8 weeks for delivery on future orders. And the transmitters will be sold only to Licensed Amateur Radio Operators. N6IFU atv-newsletter@hotmail.com 25 watt 70 cm ATV Transceiver I have a P.C. Electronics 1 watt transceiver driving an amplifier brick and developing 25 watts plus output. It is priced at $500 plus shipping N6IFU atv-newsletter@hotmail.com Wireless Mic's with PTL I have several of the Memorex Wireless Microphones that were sold at "Target" and then modified by W6KGE to include a PTL and written up in the "Amateur Television Quarterly". Target has since discontinued the mic but there still may be some in your local stores. I am selling the Memorex mic's for $25.00 plus shipping unmodified and $59.00 plus shipping with the modifications already made. N6IFU atv-newsletter@hotmail.com 900 MHz ATV downconverters I have a number of 900 MHz downconverters for sale at $50.00 each plus shipping. N6IFU atv-newsletter@hotmail.com ******************************* For Sale: Amateur Television Repeater Controllers ATVC-4 Plus is Intuitive Circuit's second generation Amateur Television repeater controller. Some of the many features that the ATVC-4 includes are: * Five Video Input Sources * Four Mixable Audio Input Sources * Non-volatile Storage * DTMF Control * Beacon Mode * Robust CW Feedback * Password Protected * And Many More Features For example a major new feature is four individual sync detection circuits allowing for true priority based ATV receiver switching. Only $349.00 Contact: Intuitive Circuits, LLC 3928 Wardlow Ct., Troy, MI - (248) 588-4400 To go right to the ATVC-4 http://www.icircuits.com/prod_atv_main.html To go to the main page http://www.icircuits.com *************************************** Anyone looking to buy, sell or trade ATV Equipment are welcomed to send your ad(s) for publication to: atv-newsletter@hotmail.com _______________________________________________________ ^ Scheduled Program Guide for ATV Monday: 11:00 PM PDST DB0HEX, Mount Brocken/ATV in Germany Round Table at (0700 UTC Tuesday) http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u SCART Net (GB3IV) http://g7jtt.camstreams.com Tuesday: 12:00 Noon PDST Torbay Amateur Television & Microwave Group Group Activity Night Every Tuesday at 2000 to 2200 UTC www.batc.tv under GB3TB Repeater 6:00 PM PDST ATCO ATV Net Every Tuesday (0200 UTC Wednesday) http://wb8lga.camstreams.com 7:30 PM PDST WB9KMO Net Night Santa Barbara, CA Every Tuesday at (0330 UTC Wednesday) www.batc.tv the goto members streams and look for WB9KMO 8:00 PM PDST W7TED Repeaters Net Night Every Tuesday (0400 UTC Wednesday) http://w7ted.camstreams.com 11:00 PM PDST DB0HEX, Mount Brocken/ATV in Germany Round Table (0700 UTC Wednesday) http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u Wednesday: 11:00 AM PDST Chat Night, GB3ZZ Every Wednesday at 1900 to 2100 UTC BATC.TV streaming video www.batc.tv then go to member streams as well as www.camsecure.co.uk 6:00 PM PDST C.A.T.S. Net Net held every Wed. 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST (0200 UTC Thursday) http://kb3lnn.camstreams.com 11:00 PM PDST DB0HEX, Mount Brocken/ATV in Germany Round Table (0700 UTC Thursday) http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u Thursday: 12:00 Noon PDST Torbay Amateur Television & Microwave Group Group Activity Night Every Thursday at 2000 to 2200 UTC www.batc.tv under GB3TB Repeater 6:00 PM PDST B.R.A.T.S. Net Net held every Thurs. 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST (0200 UTC Firday) http://kb3lnn.camstreams.com 7:00 PM PDST San Bernardino Microwave Society Meeting Topic of the next Tech Talk: see article in World News ^ 7:00 to 9:00 PM PT Starts @ 0300 UTC to 0500 UTC Friday You can watch the SBMS Meeting on the The METS ATV Repeaters as well as or the ATN-CA Repeaters in Southern California or www.batc.tv them go to ATV Repeaters and click on W6ATN www.ac6rb.com then click on option #1 or #2 11:00 PM PDST DB0HEX, Mount Brocken/ATV in Germany Round Table (0700 UTC Friday) http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u Friday: 1:00 PM PDST GB3GG, Grimsby Amateur Television Group Net Every Friday at 2100 ZULU www.batc.tv 11:00 PM PDST ^ Round Table (0700 UTC Saturday) http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u Saturday: 12:00 Noon PDST Spanish/English Argentina/CA ATV Net Held every Saturday AC6RB and Friends, everyone is welcomed ( UTC) www.batc.tv and found under the W6ATN stream 6:00 PM PDST M.A.T.S. Net Held every Saturday 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDST (0200 UTC Sunday) http://kb3lnn.camstreams.com Sunday: 1:30 AM PDST DB0HEX, Mount Brocken/ATV in Germany Round Table at (0930 UTC) http://www.afu-ag.de/db0hex/db0hex.m3u 11:00 AM PDST GB3ZZ Chat Night Every Sunday at 1900 to 2100 UTC www.batc.tv Streaming video go to members stream and look for GB3ZZ and www.camsecure.co.uk as well 12:00 Noon PDST Torbay Amateur Television & Microwave Group Group Activity Night Every Sunday at 2000 to 2200 UTC www.batc.tv under GB3TB Repeater ********************************* ^ on the BATC.TV Streaming Video http://www.batc.tv/ April 18th RSGB agm newcastle May 15th - 17th Dayton Hamfest various webcasts June 13th -14th BATC 60th year July 11th 12th ATV section of microwave round table ********************************* ^ KA9UVY http://ka9uvy.camstreams.com KA9UVY, Bob is active mostly morning during weekdays And all hours weekends. Hepburn tropo forecast page: http://www.dxinfocenter.com/tropo.html ATV DXers post their CQ's and Reports to the ATV logger page: http://dxworld.com/atvlog.html Hawaiian Beacons for the West Coast provided by. "KH6HME" 144.170 MHz 432.075 MHz 1296.34 MHz Other Streaming ATV Videos Washington State RACES Station http://w7emd.camstreams.com/ W7EMD Ustream.TV http://www.ustream.tv/channel/w7emd-tv KD6ILO Mobile Camstream http://remotev.camstreams.com KD6ILO ReMoTeV IP via Ustream Used as a second feed if his Camstream is being used for something else. http://ustream.tv/channel/kd6ilo-remotev K8DMR's Camstream http://k8dmr.camstreams.com WB8LGA's Camstream Links to other camstreams and Google ATV Maps And location to view the ATCO ATV Net http://wb8lga.camstreams.com Severnside Television Group http://www.camsecure.co.uk/Camsecure_Radio_Amateurs.html and www.batc.tv N6GKB's Tower Cam in Yucca Valley, CA . And Back-up for the AC6RB Camstream http://ustream.tv/channel/n6gkb The ATV Newsletter can not be held responsible for the content of any website, web stream or link listed in the publication. If you have a scheduled Net or Event on your Streaming Video that you would like listed in the "ATV Guide" please send your information to: atv-newsletter@hotmail.com ___________________________________ ^ __________________________________ Acres Electronics, ZL4TAO ATV Gear www.acreselectronics.co.nz ATV Google Map Help Page. http://home.roadrunner.com/~cbeener/Help/Help.htm My home page http://home.roadrunner.com/~cbeener/index.html The Fastscan ATV Google map http://home.roadrunner.com/~cbeener/GMapATVQ.html Amateur Radio Victoria www.users.amateurradio.com.au Amateur Radio Victoria/VK3FCE www.amateurradio.com.au/vk3fce Associated Radio Amateurs of Long Beach, Inc. Club Station located on "Queen Mary" W6RO http://www.aralb.org ATCO Newsletter www.atco.tv Amateur Television Quarterly http://ATVQuarterly.com ATV Mobile Website http://home.comcast.net/~k8jwt ^ http://www.qsl.net/g3zhi/atvnews.htm Baltimore Radio Amateur Television Society (BRATS) http://www.bratsatv.org British Amateur Television Club Forums http://www.batc.org.uk/forum ^ CQ-TV Magazine, View Back Issues and the Place to Subscribe http://www.batc.org.uk Cameras on Mountain Tops http://www.AirCommServices.com and http://www.AirSites2000.com Chesapeake Amateur Television Society (CATS) http://mysite.verizon/vzev3ql6/id.html CQ-TV Magazine, view back issues and the place to subscribe http://www.batc.org.uk DATV/Digital Amateur Television Primer, G7LWT ^ www.g7lwt.com Dutch Digital Amateur Television Site http://d-atv.com G3ZHI Many Ham Radio Links http://www.qsl.net/g3zhi GB3BH http://gb3bh.com GB3KM http://myspace.freeserve.com GW6BWX's Amateur Television Electronics Projects ATV/DATV http://www.atv-projects.com/index.html Hamoholics, 2E0GYZ www.2e0gyz.ning.com Historical TV & Radio Website www.pharis-video.com Intuitive Circuits, LLC ^ http://www.icircuits.com/prod_atv_main.html On-Screen ID Overlay and home page http://www.icircuits.com K6BEN-ATV http://www.batnet.com/~mfwright.mfwright/k6ben.html Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club http://www.lvrac.org and www.hxo.com ^ http://www.qsl.net/kc6ccc/ Mini-kits Hi-Tech RF Kits and Components http://www.minikits.com.au MNFAT Minnesota Group/KB0OZN www.Mnfat.net N6HOG's Weather Web http://n6hog.com Oregon Amateur Television Association-Portland www.oregonatv.org P.C. Electronics www.hamtv.com Salem Amateur Television Associations-Salem www.qsl.net/k7atv/ San Bernardino Microwave Society (SBMS) http://www.ham-radio.com/sbms Severnside Television Group Website www.stvg.co.uk http://www.batc.tv streaming website Southgate Amateur Radio Club www.southgatearc.org WA6NUT's page HF with FFT-TV http://www.hamsdr.com/personaldirectory.aspx?did=1139 If you have an ATV Streaming Video or ATV website that you would like to have listed in the ATV Guide please send your info to: atv-newsletter@hotmail.com The ATV Newsletter can not be held responsible for the content of any website, web stream or link listed in the publication. ___________________________________________ Oat Mtn. News ___________________________________________ Oat Mtn. is still operating fine. ___________________________________________ ^ A woman and a man are involved in a car accident on a snowy, cold Monday morning; it's a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished, but amazingly neither of them is hurt. After they crawl out of their cars, the man is yelling about women drivers. The woman says, 'So, you're a man. That's interesting. I'm a woman. Wow, just look at our cars! There's nothing left, but we're unhurt. This must be a sign from God that we should be friends and live in peace for the rest of our days.' Flattered, the man replies, 'Oh yes, I agree completely, this must be a sign from God! But you're still at fault... women shouldn't be allowed to drive.' The woman continues, 'And look at this, here's another miracle. My car is completely demolished but this bottle of wine didn't break. Surely God wants us to drink this wine and celebrate our good fortune.' She hands the bottle to the man. The man nods his head in agreement, opens it and drinks half the bottle and then hands it back to the woman. The woman takes the bottle, puts the cap back on and hands it back to the man. The man asks, 'Aren't you having any?' The woman replies, 'No. I think I'll just wait for the police...' Joke thanks to N6IWY, Spencer *********************************************** Got a joke? send it to atv-newsletter@hotmail.com _______________________________________ _______________________________________ ^ ____________________________________ ATN-CA Winter Meeting Update The ATN-CA Newsletter was sent out this week but there was no mention of what happened at the Winter Meeting. In fact there was no mention of the meeting. I know that there was a lot going on at the meeting and I was expecting to get an update about all the changes to the Constitution and by-laws. I am sure that the "Winter Meeting" is news worthy. What happened? ^ It was brought up on the net this week that the Point Loma ATV repeater will be moved to a new location. The Point Loma repeater is currently located on the coast and it's antenna's are at about 440 feet above sea level and it's coverage is limited. Moving it to a mountain top in the area should greatly increase it's coverage.
____________________________________________________ ATN-CA Repeater Report ________________________________________ Repairs Needed for the ATN-CA Repeaters ________________________________________ Blueridge: Mt. Wilson: 1. Install 2.4 GHz Receiver ???? 2. Build and install 2.4 GHz receiver for link from Blueridge (on hold 5/5/08) 3. Might need an additional port on the controller???? Oat Mtn.: 1. Replace plastic wire ties with appropriate fasteners. 2. Tune 2.4 GHz link dipole for better SWR. It would be a good idea to sweep the 1200 MHz antenna at the same time as well. Santiago Peak: 1. Remove KC6UQH's call and Palomar from the W6ATN repeaters ID's (late spring early summer 08 when the new controller is installed) 2. Look into weak signal getting into one of the inputs. 3. Find intermittent receive problem for link from Oat Mtn..(1/24/09) 4. Check into potential problem with 1200 MHz transmitter or amp.(1/24/09) 5. Install new 5 GHz transmitter once it is repaired (3/10/09) Snow Peak: 1. Repair noise problem on audio. Point Loma: No Repairs Needed/Fully Operational Mount Potosi: ______________________________________________ Letters to the Editor ********************************************************************* If you have an opinion or viewpoint that you would like to express to the readers, please submit your letters to: atv-newsletter@hotmail.com _____________________________________________ See you all on ATV, Bryon Foster N6IFU Editor and Publisher of the "ATV Newsletter" Please send this newsletter to anyone you think will enjoy it. If you wish to subscribe to the "ATV Newsletter", send me an email I will add you to my mailing list. The ATV Newsletter is FREE. atv-newsletter@hotmail.com If you are receiving the newsletter and would like it stopped, please send me an email as well. My "Mailing List" is not sold or shared. The "ATV Newsletter" is not affiliated with "ATN". Deadline for copy for the newsletter is 12:00 noon PT every Friday. ---------------------------------------------------------------- © 2008,RA3TTS/Alex http://www.ra3tts.narod.ru e-mail: ra3tts@yandex.ru |
