«
»

Surfin’: Going ATV Digitally

This week’s Surfin’ considers Web sites where Amateur Television (ATV) is going digital.

Did you know that Surfin’ is a weekly column published on ARRLWeb that features Web sites related to Amateur Radio, specifically, and radio, in general? If you have any suggestions for Surfin’, please contact WA1LOU using the e-mail link to the right.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 at 12:34 pm and is filed under ATV, amateur radio, ham radio, surfin', television. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Surfin’: Going ATV Digitally”

  1. Steve, KB9MWR says:
    October 5, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    I also recommend these other resources:
    Fundamentals of Digital Television Transmission, by Gerald W. Collins,
    PE (ISBN 0-471-21376-4)

    Digital Amateur Television (D-ATV), by N2IRZ, CQ Magazine June 2004

  2. Tom, wu8o says:
    October 10, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    A deeper search might reveal the ATCO ATV club in Columbus, OH as being the first amateur repeater site in the U.S. to have digital ATV. It is also full duplex. See http://www.atco.tv for info.

  3. Administrator says:
    October 10, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    Tom, wu8o —- See today’s installment of Surfin’ (http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2008/10/10/10380/)

  4. Nick, N6QQQ says:
    November 7, 2008 at 6:53 pm

    I’ve successfully transmitted 8vsb now on 70 and 33 cm. I haven’t yet gotten the amplifiers I need to transmit non-trivial amounts of power, but so far as I am aware, this is the first time an amateur has transmitted 8VSB in North America and received it on unmodified (except for adding a downconverter in front) consumer grade TV equipment.

Leave a Reply