Digital HD Amateur Television
Recently with thanks to Gerard VK3GER and FAMPARC, for the loan of a Club telescopic pole, we were able to temporarily erect a 23cm Grid Pack antenna standing it on my front veranda and after carefully aiming for the ATV repeater located in Glen Waverley, near the Police Academy, the test card we were transmitting, popped up on a set top box with a 4 element yagi receiving antenna, hung out of an upstairs window.
The successful test was to assess whether I could get a signal into the repeater from my QTH before deciding whether to mount both antennas on the roof.
The Transmitter uses a Raspberry Pi 4B, Lime SDR Mini 2, small PA (set to output 4W) and clever software available from the BATC:
Links:
VK3RTV: http://www.vk3rtv.com/
Portsdown 4 project: https://wiki.batc.org.uk/The_Portsdown_DATV_transceiver_system
British Amateur Television Club: https://batc.org.uk/
ATV Net 8pm AEST Tuesdays Via the repeater live
Or YouTube courtesy VK3QL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ItBSHzwtHs
and on Discord courtesy VK3VRS
🤓John VK3JCO/VK3CTV
