NEW ATV BOOK — “Introduction to Amateur Digital Television” This book pulls together the information that is scattered in over 40 application notes. It will hopefully be used by prospective new ATV hams as a “how to do it” book. AN-45 DTV Book
“DVB-T: A Solution for ARES Television Operations”, by Jim Andrews, KH6HTV, .pdf reprint from ARRL’s QST magazine, June, 2015, pp. 42-44 dvb-t-qst-june2015
APPLICATION NOTES relating to Amateur Television (click on the blue links for a .pdf copy)
AN-46 Amplifier Output Power for Various Modulations (FM/CW, AM, SSB, VUSB-TV, DTV (QPSK, 16QAM & 64QAM)) AN-46 Amps&Mod NEW – added Sept, 2018
AN-44 Remote Receiver for DVB-T TV Repeater AN-44a Remote DTV Rcvr NEW – added May, 2018
AN-43d KH6HTV-TVR Boulder, Colorado TV Repeater AN-43d KH6HTV-TVR NEW – updated August, 2018
AN-42 Second, Re-Evaluation of Hi-Des, Model HV-320E, DVB-T, Modulator AN-42 HV320E NEW – added Dec. 2017
AN-41 2.4 GHz DTV Transceiver AN-41 13cm Transceiver
AN-40 70cm Antennas for ATV AN-40 70cm Antennas
AN-39 DVB-T Recommended Parameters AN-39 DVB-T parameters
AN-38 Shopping Lists for Amateur, DVB-T, Digital TV Equipment AN-38 Shopping Lists
AN-37 Thermal Issues with Hi-Des, DVB-T, Equipment AN-37 Thermal Issues
AN-36 Microwave TV Transmitters & Receivers an-36-microwave
AN-33 TV Propagation, an-33a-tv-prop
AN-31 Digital & Analog TV Repeater, AN-31 TV Rptr
AN-30b An HDMI Switch for a Digital TV Repeater, AN-30b HDMI Switch
AN-29 DVB-T Receiver Sensitivity Measurements, AN-29 Rcvr Sensitivity
AN-28a Evaluation of New Hi-Des Model HV-320E, DVB-T, Modulator (note: see updated AN-42) AN-28a HV320rev18Dec2017
AN-27a Evaluation of New Hi-Des Model HV-120A, DVB-T, Receiver AN-27a HV120
AN-26 70cm DTV Propagation Studies AN-26 70cm Prop
AN-25 Why I Selected DVB-T for Amateur Digital TV AN-25 Why DVB-T
AN-24 Quad DVB-T Receiver AN-24 Quad DTV Rcvr
AN-23 DVB-T Television Repeater AN-23 DTV Rptr
AN-22b Inter-Digital Band-Pass Filters an-22b-inter-digital-bpf
AN-21d How to Receive Amateur Digital, DVB-T Television Signals AN-21d Receive DTV revMay2018 – revised May, 2018
AN-20a DVB-T DX-pedition (77 miles on 70cm) AN-20a DVB-T DX
AN-19 Analog & Digital TV Co-Channel & Adjacent Channel RFI Measurements AN-19 TV RFI
AN-18B Notes on Setting Up Hi-Des DVB-T Modulator & Receiver AN-18B HiDesNotes Rev Mar2017
AN-17 DVB-T the Solution for Ham Digital Television AN-17 DVB-T rev9July14
AN-16 TV Camera Rain Cover AN-16 RainCover
AN-15 Simple Camera Tripod Antenna Bracket AN-15 Antenna Bracket
AN-14 FM Transmitter Deviation Adjustment & Calibration AN-14 FM Deviation
AN-13 High Definition 64QAM Digital TV Transmitter AN-13a 64QAM DTV Transmitter
AN-12 Reception of Amateur Television AN-12a Reception of ATV
AN-11 Digital TV DX Record for Colorado (note: see updated AN-22a) AN-11a DTV DX Record
AN-10b 70cm & Microwave Amateur TV Frequencies AN-10b TV Frequencies
AN-9 Add Television to Your ARES Tool Kit AN-9 ARES Tool Kit
AN-8 “Linear” Amplifiers — Buyer Beware AN-8 NonLinear Amp
AN-6 MER — What is it ? AN-6a MER
AN-5 P5 — TV Signal Quality Reporting AN-5 P5
AN-4 Antennas for Ham TV (note: also see new AN-40) AN-4 Antennas
AN-3 Field Trials Comparing VUSB, FM, DVB-S & 64-QAM Television AN-3a Field Trials
AN-2 DIGITAL TV — the Good, the Bad & the Ugly AN-2a DTV
AN-1 Why VUSB-TV vs. AM-TV ? AN-1 WhyVUSB
For .pdf copies of old, obsolete, deleted application notes – send me an email request.
OTHER ATV RELATED TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS (note: .pdf files. PowerPoint files available upon request)
“TV in ARES” talk presented in Honolulu, HI, Jan. 2017, to amateur radio club, plus ARES/RACES & State of Hawaii State Civil Defense tv-in-ares
“Amateur High-Definition, Digital Television” talk presented in Honolulu, HI, Jan. 2017, to amateur radio club, plus ARES/RACES & State of Hawaii State Civil Defense amateur-hd-dtv
“High Definition Amateur Digital Television” talk presented at several ham clubs in Colorado Front Range, 2015. HD Amateur DTV
“ATV & Public Safety” talk presented at 2013 Dayton Hamvention, ATV Forum. ATV&PublicSafetyRev1
“BCARES – Amateur Television Training” BCARES_TV_trainingRev2
“BCARES – Advanced ATV Training” AdvancedTVtraining
NOTE: The following articles were published in national ham magazines. Due to copyright issues they can not be posted here on-line. Contact us for an individual copy.
RECENT QST ARTICLES:
“DVB-T: A Solution for ARES Television Operations”, QST, June 2015, pp. 42-44
“70cm Digital TV DX Record”, QST, Mar., 2015, p. 96
“Modern ATV System Design”, QST, Feb, 2013, pp. 46-47
“Boulder Hams Fight Forest Fires With Video” QST, May, 2011
“New Digital TV DX Record”, QST, May, 2012, pp. 88-89
AMATEUR TELEVISION QUARTERLY ARTICLES: many articles since 2011, mostly based upon the above application notes. Also published in Boulder Amateur Radio Club, BARC’s BARK, monthly newsletter
“Hams Respond to Colorado Wildfires — ATV Plays a Vital Role”, CQ, Sept. 2012, pp. 13-19
OTHER PAPERS by KH6HTV on Amateur Radio Topics
“EZNEC Modeling of Alpha-Delta DX-EE, Multi-Band HF Dipole Antenna”, Mar. 2014, AD-HFdipoleRev1
EZNEC modeling of Yaesu ATAS-120A HF Mobile Antenna — mounted on a car EZNECmobileAnt plus mounted on the earth as a backyard, ‘stealth’, base station antenna YAESU STEALTH ANTENNA and YaesuStealthAnt-Part2
Baofeng UV-5R+Plus Chinese Dual-Band HT Transceiver Evaluation and Programming Guide (2012) ChineseHT
S Meter Calibration of Yaesu FTdx3000 S meter calib FT3000
Rev: 28 Sept. 2018, kh6htv
