Digital ATV in the UK

Radio Amateurs in the UK are increasingly experimenting with Digital Amateur Television (DATV), Charles G4GUO is one of those.

Charles Brain G4GUO is well-known for his development of Amateur HF Digital Voice in the late 1990's and the PC-ALE software. He is now working on Digital ATV equipment for the Amateur 24cm and 70cm bands.

His 24cm transmitter comprises a Core 2 Quad 2.8 GHz Linux box running the Fedora 12 O/S, a Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP2) card developed by Matt Ettus N2MJI and a Hauppauge PVR500 MPEGII encoder card.
The transmit rate is 2 Msps (Mega-Samples Per Second).

On receive he uses a standard Fortec Star DVB-S set top box.

Further information is at
http://g4guo.blogspot.com/2010/03/
2-msps-datv-using-usrp2-and-wbx.html

G4GUO Twitter: http://twitter.com/G4GUO/
G4GUO Blog: http://g4guo.blogspot.com/

There are a number of groups around the country running or building DATV repeaters including:

Worthing Video Repeater Group
http://www.videorepeater.co.uk/

Home Counties ATV Group
http://www.gb3hv.com/

Bournemouth Amateur TV Group (BATG)
http://www.gb3sq.org.uk/

More information on DATV is available at M0DTS Digital ATV Pages http://www.m0dts.co.uk/datv.htm

G7LWT Digital ATV Primer
http://www.g7lwt.com/datv.html

You can join the British Amateur Television Club (BATC) at
http://www.batc.org.uk/