The SCART Radio & Television Station Server & Controller is taking shape at the Portsdown site in Portsmouth, bringing together the GB3FW DATV and GB7FW D-STAR repeaters. Once fully operational, the station will support STEM learning through amateur radio, television and electronics, with opportunities for the local community, schools and other educational groups to get involved. GB7FW D-STAR Live TX/RX
Super news! The SCART Fort Widley site has had a lot of work going on behind the scenes and is now going live! A considerable amount of work has been completed by the team to prepare the site and get the equipment operational: The caravan radio station has been updated to accommodate the equipment. This is complete with an
Good news in that we are making progress in getting the repeaters up in the new site within Fort Widley. Simon and Julia have done a great deal of work in preparing the new repeater cabin/caravan and preparing for the new Solar, Wind and mast fixtures. This has been a challenge, both externally and internally. Great work. The repeaters are
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