VK3APC M&DRC - ATV SIG


		VK3APC
		Moorabbin and District Radio Club
		Amateur Television SIG.

70cm Preamp

70cm Quad ant.

Excel file dl6wu.xls (Ziped 33K)

Loopyagi.exe (Ziped 35k)

ZBJyagi.exe (Ziped 37K)

VK3RTV Melbourne's Amateur Television Repeater.
Mini-Kits VK5EME Mark, ATV & other Kits.


Fixing the broken ATV beam		ATV Meeting Gets under way		Pan & tilt mount		Showing off the pan tilt mount		ATV Meeting night

Yet another good ATV Interest group meeting was held last Friday evening at the clubrooms under the guidance of David VK3JDA.

Two monsterous 16 element yagi antennas, very well made by Tony VK3CAT were on show, and Peter Cossins VK3BFG brought along some small ex repeater quad ‘tennas to give away after discussion on the various merits of ATV ‘tenna design. Peter also displayed his tiny little hand-held 1200 Meg. ATV yagi and accompanying little home brewed transmitter.

Those interested in home-brewing Tony’s 13db monster paid some db’s of their own towards the material to get it all under way, whilst others have preferred to wait for the smaller, and less visually challenging designs which have been promised by Peter.

All good stuff this, and we were pleased to see a good turn-up again including one or two new faces who have caught the A/R bug.

The next official meeting will be on Friday 2^nd.August but there is an e-mail link-up promised soon to keep everyone in touch, and it’s hoped that news, ATV ‘tenna designs and mail chatter will fill in the time between meetings.

Anyone interested in joining in should let us know after the broadcast or contact David the MDRC web master shown on the links to the MDRC club website.

Anew group interested in ATV got together at the MDRC clubrooms to discuss things ATV, and identify just what they wanted from a medium too often left in the "too hard" basket.

A goodly number of Amateurs from the MDRC and other Melb.clubs were given the "Good oil" on ATV.

MDRC ATV Guru David, VK3JDA assisted by Peter Cossins VK3BFG made it all sound, not only possible, but better yet, easily achievable from most sites around Melbourne.

Initial interest from most was simply to receive watchable signals from the ATV repeater VK3RTV, and it was soon obvious that trying to get reasonable pictures from our normal home UHF antennas was pretty much a hit and miss affair.

The initial plan was to start small and progress from there and that’s just what was delivered by David and Peter.

The group agreed to meet again next month and nail down some definite plans towards a group project to start building some decent antennas for ATV.

So don’t forget, next month, that’s Friday 5th.July, and it’s certainly not too late to join in the ATV fun so you can get in touch directly with David 3JDA our MDRC web master via the club web site.