Brisbane clubs in bid to improve Amateur Television

Three Brisbane area clubs have met to improve Amateur Television.

The meeting, held at the home of Richard VK4XRL on Saturday July 10, looked at combining the resources of the clubs to improve ATV repeaters in the greater Brisbane area.

South East Queensland ATV group, Brisbane Digital ATV group and Queensland Digital Group. The BDATV group and SEQATV group each running ATV a few hundred metres of each other North West of Brisbane at Ocean View.

Those present agreed that combining equipment and sites is in the best interests of all ATV operators in Brisbane.

VK4RKC is now transmitting Digital ATV on 428.5 MHz. Both 1250 FM and DATV are being received.

The *preferred* choice of frequency should be 442-450 as they expect to loose 420 to 430 MHz in the future.

As a result of the ACMA's re-structuring of the UHF Bands, it may be that commercial users will move into 440 - 450 MHz 'on a temporary basis', subject to agreement from the Department of Defence. Shifts are to occur before Dec 2012. This is more likely to occur in high density areas such as Capital Cities.

The meeting decided that at this stage, to plan to use a repeater output of 446.5 MHz the Australian standard digital with two output streams.

Inputs of 1250 MHz and 1283 MHz FM will be the minimum receive requirement.

WIA