The ‘sister’ 23cm DATV repeater GB3JT is moving from Hastings/Eastbourne to Maidstone, Kent. The site is to be located at Detling Hill (A249), the same site as GB3RE. The Radio Mast is at Friningham, near to Thurnham, Kent. UK Repeaters GB3JT NoV Application https://ukrepeater.net/my_repeater.php?id=6232 BATC Conversation Thread Supporting the British Amateur Television Club
Following a period of being offline, our website is now back up in preparation for getting the repeaters operational.
The Fort Widley, GB3FW DATV repeater, is looking to get on air, very soon. The transmitter, PA and receivers have been tested and are being built into racks. The PA has taken much longer than planned due to thermal testing and various tweaks to remove the need for any fan use where possible, in order to conserve power and maximise
A new Twitter news feed has been added for the SCART Group https://twitter.com/ScartATVGroup
Much work continues in order to get GB3FW up and running. This includes working on the Antennas, Mast, Electronics and RF side. Thanks to the working party Simon G0IEY, Frank G0LFI, Julia G0IUY and Dave G8PUO. Simon G0IEY has been busy on the antennas and mounting pole brackets. Also repairing the Wind Generator Motor as it had unfortunately ceased up.
In order that a number of live remote repeater monitoring be provided, including the important real-time Solar, Wind charging and batteries voltage states, custom IoT monitors have been designed for the repeater site in order to continually upload MQTT (IoT), data and the results displayed on our website. In addition, a weather station will be added on the repeater cabin.
The SCART team are really pleased and thrilled to announce that our OFCOM application and Notice Of Variation (NoV), for the GB3FW DATV Repeater, at Fort Widley, has been successful and approved. https://ukrepeater.net/my_repeater.php?id=4626 GB3FW transmit frequency has been confirmed as 3406 MHz (3.406 GHz), Horizontal polarisation. Further details will be updated on our website in due course. We would like
As part of the repeater design, a BATC web streamer is focal in offering locals the ability to use the repeater as a test site. The initial hardware (until the NoV is hopefully granted), will obviously be receiver based for 23cm ATV, DATV and including 5665 MHz ATV. The Portsdown system is the core of this and as such, the
We are pleased to finally bring our new website online and hope you like it. The various pages will continue to be updated, as content and background processes are finalised. Many thanks for your support and enthusiasm in ATV.
As some of you aware, GB3IV has just been 2nd NoV. This is the end of a long legacy, much history and it was not taken lightly. The main reason for this is that 23cm in the Portsmouth area is a real challenge, difficult coverage and our proposed site move would not be possible without frequency change. Equally the proposed