Category: Amateur Television

A while ago I came up with the idea of ​​building a portable ATV receiver. Important features of this receiver had to be: 1. Large screen with real noise (no fake noise) 2. Of course with built-in battery with builtin charger. 3. PE1ICE MiniATV receiver as base. 4. Switchable bias voltage. 12/18V, and OFF. 5.…

Recently I got my hands on a very good performing LNB for 10 ghz amateur television. Available on aliexpress under the name BT-180 with an LO of 9GHz. There was only a slight problem using it at my location. Here in the Netherlands there are 2 unofficial frequencies for ATV on 23cm. 1252 and 1280MHz.…

Some time ago, Hans PE1ICE developed a compact ATV Receiver that could demodulate FM audio and Nicam audio also. Link to project: https://nvra.net/index.php/nicam-decoder/pe1ice-nvra-mini-atv-ontvanger/ All that was needed was to install the receiver in a housing. In the first housing I had based on a supply voltage of 12v. I also had a video splitter built…

Since I’ve been active with the hobby again, I try to pick up every facet of it again. And so is ATV 🙂 Previously I was very active with 70cm ATV at our club repeater PI6HLM (NVRA), and could always receive it perfectly without any issue. I now found out that this is not so…