BATC special television activity day

The BATC is sponsoring a special television activity day on 22 August.

Called Network Day, high power ATV stations will be located on high sites at Winter Hill, North Yorkshire Moors, Merryton Low, Brown Clee and Cambridge. A number of other stations will be active from North London and the Lincolnshire Wolds.

These stations will all be equipped with analogue FM equipment and some will also have digital ATV transmitters. This is a great opportunity to contact many high power stations with equipment for 23cm, 13cm and 3cm.

Several stations will have high power 70cm digital transmitters using 2 megasamples per second QPSK on 436 or 437MHz. Digital free to air DVB-S satellite receivers are very low cost and simple to install on your existing 23cm system and Network Day is a good opportunity to set up a digital receiver. The intention is to link some of the stations and create a network to relay signals over long distances.

So dust off your ATV receivers and transmitters and try a contact with one of the stations. Call in for talkback will be 144.750MHz with working channels close by.

This event coincides with the 5.7GHz cumulative contest and several of the stations will be working on the same high sites. Information and list of stations can be found at www.batc.org.uk/forum/

Source: GB2RS