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Boulder Amateur
Television Club
TV Repeater's
REPEATER
March, 2021
3ed Edition
BATVC web site: www.kh6htv.com
ATN web site: www.atn-tv.com

Jim Andrews, KH6HTV, editor - [email protected] www.kh6htv.com

This ATV Newsletter is focused on

Good News & Bad News
The Good News is the discovery of a some new, low
cost ($80), DVB-T Modulators by K0ZAK.
The Bad News was the horrible technical fiasco of the
QSO Today's 2021 Ham Expo and it's impact on ATN

ATV Upcoming Events

18 March -- Desert RATS, Palm Springs, CA ham club meeting -- "ATN and Amateur
Television", by Roland KC6JPG Zoom meeting. For more info --
[email protected]

19 March -- Santa Barbara, CA Amateur Radio Club meeting -- The ATN Video
"Introduction to Digital Amateur Television" Q&A session follows with Rod,
WB9KMO, Roland, KC6JPG, Mike, WA6SVT & Jim, KH6HTV. Zoom meeting. For
more info - [email protected]

24-30 March -- ATN live coverage of Last Man Standing Amateur Radio event.
Broadcast over ATN network and the internet. For more info - [email protected]

6 March -- Hendersonville, NC ham club meeting -- DVD "Hi-Definition, Digital

Amateur Television", Q&A session follows with Jim, KH6HTV Zoom meeting. For
more info - [email protected]
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Last Man Standing

Tim Allen has a TV show called “Last Man Standing”. In the show, Tim plays a charac-
ter named Mike Baxter who is a Ham Operator. Amateur Radio plays a significant role
in the show. The character and the show have a call sign (KA6LMS) and Tim Allen’s
personal call sign is KK6OTD. Tim's real name is Tim Allen Dick

The show has reached its final season and they are planning lots of events, all ham radio
oriented using a whole range of modes (e.g., SSB, CW, FT8, Satellite, DMR, EchoLink,
ATV, etc.). Events start Wednesday, March 24th and run through March 30th. More in-
formation at www.gsbarc.org/lms www.gsbarc.org/lms .

Roland, KC6JPG, is ATN's digital systems director and net manager. He is organizing
ATN's participation in the event. ATN plans to have their mobile ENG van on the stu-
dio lot. The event will be transmitted live over the ATN network of linked ATV re-
peaters covering southern California, Las Vegas, Nevada and Arizona. It will also be
available on the internet on ATN's You-Tube www.youtube.com/AmateurTelevisionNetwork
and the BATC. For more info -- [email protected]

ATV NEWS from Maryland

John, K0ZAK, writes --- I am trying to get some local interest in updating our ATV
repeaters to digital. I'm testing the cheapest equipment I can find to try to generate more
interest in Digital ATV

There are three ATV repeaters here in the Baltimore, Maryland area. However, two are
currently down. Those two are on the top of hospitals and the corona virus has cut off
access to them. They were all linked together, but I don't know the current status of the
links. The Baltimore Radio Amateur Television Society (BRATS) has a web site:
www.bratsatv.org The Baltimore, W2WCQ/R ATV repeater was one of the very first in
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the USA. It has been in operations since the mid 1970s. The Chesapeake Amateur
Television Society (CATS) has two repeaters operating under the call sign, W3BAB.
They are located in Laurel and Towson, Maryland. The CATS club has been active since
the mid 1980s. Their web site is: www.qsl.net/wy3w/wy3w/CATSWEB/id23.htm

I was reading your newsletter, talking

about the set-top DVB-T receivers. I
wanted to let you know that I've put
together about the cheapest DVB-T station
I could find. While I do have a GT media
V7 Plus, I also bought another set-top
box for only $17 on E-Bay recently just
for curiosity.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/363203887555
Can't get much cheaper than that. It is as
hot as the GT media that I have. It tunes
and receives both 434 and 928 DVB-T
channels fine, but for some reason it
wouldn't actually save the 911 or 928 channels in memory even though it received them
OK. It goes through the save motions but just doesn't save. I haven't followed up on that
problem yet. It outputs both HDMI and NTSC video/audio. It does have a European
power plug on it, but works with a cheap 110V Euro adaptor, or 5 volts from a USB
cable.

Here is what I found as a DVB-T transmitter. $80 plus shipping It has HDMI and
NTSC video inputs. Set up for 6-8 MHz bandwidth, though the ITI chipset will natively
support 1-8 MHz bandwidth. I'm looking into seeing if I can hack the firmware to
command it to use the lower bandwidths, however it works fine with an amplifier on 6
MHz bandwidth for now. I've used it on both 434 & 911 MHz I’ll let you know if I have
any success with hacking the firmware for the narrower bandwidths. I have already
gotten the unit from GECEN. I then found another similar one from Vcan which I have
on order.

www.gecen.cc www.Vcan.cc
$80 Chinese DVB-T modulators
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Editor's Note: We hope once John gets the second unit, that he will give us a really
detailed technical evaluation of them that we can publish in a future newsletter

I built a cheap, RF power amplifier using the Mitsubishi RA60H3847M1 to work with
the modulator. This combination puts out about the same power as my friend's Hi-Des
320 and his Darko-Banko amp at a whole lot less money. Just limited to 6 MHz
bandwidth for now.
John, K0ZAK, Reisterstown, MD

CATS on BATC: The CATS ATV repeater, W3BAB, is now streaming over
the web via the British Amateur Television Club. https://batc.org.uk/live/w3bab We
stream our weekly ATV net each Wednesday evening at 9pm (Eastern time). Neil,
W3ZQI is behind it. I am the one that picks it up from our Towson, MD, P5 picture. I
am just picking it up and put it on the CAT's Laptop. But, Neil has full control of the PC
and puts it on the website.
John, KA3ZTC, Baltimore, MD

ATV NEWS from St. Louis

Hi Jim -- I bet you wish you were in KH6 land about now. (Mel is referring to the fact
Colorado is currently buried in deep snow Mid-March )?

When it snows here, I have now noticed “snow” increases the signal strength from / to
the repeater here. As matter of fact, several of us have noted the signal can be stronger
by 2 to 3 dB. Have you noticed that in your location? I think this may be to the signal
path not being LOS/direct view and perhaps the Raleigh channel path reflections from the
snow-on-the-ground. However, I assume since you have mountains and LOS the effect
may just be the opposite.

I have a one minute video on how I am using the Black Magic Design ATEM Mini pro.
It is on my web site. I am really impressed with it… especially when connecting now
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that my former “slow” switching external HDMI switch now switches much faster.
Black Magic Design has now another model out with 8 ports. As they keep “updating”
the switch with more ports and functions, the original mini should eventually be dropping
in price especially on the used market.
http://melwhitten.com/BlackMagicDesign%20Mini%20Switcher.mp4
Mel, K0PFX, St. Louis

ATV NEWS from Ottawa

Attached is an image of what I setup in the "Parks on the Air" ham radio event here in
Ottawa Canada. (Sept 2020) This is basically a Portsdown 2020 Raspberry Pi Boards
transmitting a DTV DVB-S2 (or DVB-S can't remember) signal across the park @ 441
MHz with a bandwidth of ~660Khz wide. for a 720P, 30 FPS Full motion video &
Audio. (Yes I am Kinda Proud of it ! ) The frequency was just chosen because it had the
least amount of interference at the time. The receiver is another LimeSDR board plugged
into my laptop computer running SDRAngel. This software has a DVB-S(2) Software
receiver built in! https://github.com/f4exb/sdrangel/wiki/Quick-start And a You Tube
Video of Mrs. Corrosive! https://www.rtl-sdr.com/demodulating-dvb-s-digital-amateur-
tv-with-sdrangel-on-windows-with-an-sdr/ This is Almost exactly what I have done to
get this to work! Except the transmit side was done with the Portsdown software.
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I plan to use your RF power amplifier and create a DTV station at my home to broadcast
to the Ottawa (Gatineau) area. I have a few Ham friends in the Gatineau area that would
be very curious about this working. So I am planning to be feeding this signal into a 12
element yagi. Hopefully I will have more gain from my antenna pointed towards my
Ham Friends in Ottawa. If you look at Ottawa, Canada on the Goggle maps you can see
right now it's a Very EAST/WEST populated city. I currently live in the East side of the
city, and will be pointing my Yagi towards the West if not North West towards Gatineau.
Mike, VA3TEC, Ottawa, Canada

QSO TODAY - HAM RADIO EXPO -- a Bust !

The much touted 2021 Ham Radio Expo sponsored by QSO Today was a technical Bust !
They charged participants a $10 fee and not sure it was worth it. Right from the get go,
they didn't adhere to the advertised schedule due to lots of technical glitches. Thus, each
talk lost many potential viewers. My own personal experiences trying to watch it were
difficult. The first program I wanted to watch was delayed by 45 minutes and the second
one by 20 minutes. Then the third program they kept running the wrong video. Once
they got the proper video running, then the moderator was unable to bring up the speaker
for the Q&A session. There was also supposed to be an exhibition lobby with lots of
vendors sales booths. Clicking on "Lobbies & Exhibition" lead to a blank screen.
Going to Auditorium & Lounges and then "Arena" only brought up three vendors -- Flex-
Radio, Elecraft and Connect Systems. Then I was unable to see anything at those sites.
Throughout most of the day, I was never able to find listed on the talks to chose from our
own ATN talk which was supposed to happen at 4pm (Pacific). It did eventually air, but
late, and then only due to heroic efforts of ATN's IT specialist Roland, KC6JPG.

I also was very disappointed with the Airmeet platform's video format. The screen had a
lot of waste space. The speaker's video for slides, etc. were compressed and only
occupied about 1/3 of the screen. There was no way to expand it to full screen. Thus a
lot of the power-point slides with smaller type were difficult to read, even on a hi-def
monitor. I hope if there are any more on-line Ham Expos in the future, that the Airmeet
platform be dumped for this reason alone, aside from the other issues that were
encountered.

There was always on the right hand side of the Airmeet screen a place for viewer's to chat
and make comments or ask questions. Two of the really classic comments I saw scroll
by summarized the whole event. ---- "Dayton in the rain is still better than this mess !"
and "The platform was much better last year and we didn't have to pay $10 !"

Jim, KH6HTV, Boulder, CO

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QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo

and Amateur Television Network
Making a Presence to Everywhere – Barely!
By Roland Hoffman – KC6JPG

With the absence of a live conventions due

to the Great Pandemic of 2020 - 2021, Eric
Guth, 4Z1UG came up a brilliant idea: to
bring hams from around the world to an
amateur radio exposition in a virtual
environment. The QSO Today Virtual
Ham Expo is the perfect substitute towards
this dilemma of the inability to host an in-
person hamvention.

Planning their 2nd virtual event, Eric and his team organized a new approach towards a
more personal interactive experience. Teaming up with Airmeet for their virtual
ambiance platform, they were on their way towards a more personal experience for their
attendees . . . so they thought.

Over 80 presenters were scheduled for the 3-day event from Friday, March 12 to Sunday,
March 14, 2021. Covering a wide array of topics from HF operations to networking in
the hamshack. The Amateur Television Network was also on the schedule to present,
“Introduction to Digital Amateur Television” by Rod Fritz – WB9KMO, Jim Andrews –
KH6HTV, Mike Collis – WA6SVT, and myself to our attendees interested in fast scan
amateur television with an emphasis on DATV – digital amateur television.

Let the Expo Begin! --- Friday, March 12th. I fire up my 10-year-old custom build
Asus powered PC with an AMD Phenom processor with 8 GB of memory running
Ubuntu Linux 20.04 “Focal Fossa” (mediocre compared to today’s standards), I am
equipped to participate in the virtual expo in the KC6JPG / ATN studios, ready to show
the world the magic of fast scan amateur television & digital amateur television to the
world.

The Troubles Begins --- Attempting to log into the HAM-vention site using my e-ticket
(yep, I paid my $10.00), I was not able to enter the “show.” At the time, there was no
recourse to “fix” this problem online. Bill Brown WB8ELK was a godsend as he
forwards our ATN’s “presenters” e-ticket to my in-box. Entering the new credentials, I
have entered the show’s home page and entered “Sessions and Lounge,” I was greeted
with the Airmeet splash screen and entered the “lobby” of the virtual convention. Now
the notifications are popping up, “Airmeet can not connect your camera and microphone”
is displayed. Thinking that my computer is too “old” to run Airmeet, I decided to try my
Asus i5 8 GB Zenbook notebook, also running the Ubuntu “Focal Fossa” OS. Same
problem! Camera and microphone issues. Going into my options panel in my favorite
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browser (Firefox) to allow access to my camera and mic, Firefox would not bring up the
Airmeet system’s URL to allow my media devices to open. Next step is to use Google
Chrome (which Airmeet recommended to use). Same issue. My last recourse after an
hour and a half of frustrations was to use another Asus i5 Zenbook notebook in my
arsenal running Windows 10 with Chrome browser. I was able to open my camera, but
my audio was not recognized. Going into device manager, I reset my audio
“connections”, tried it again . . . and it worked! Now I am able to sit in my lovely
“virtual chair” at our ATV (Amateur Television) table #7 in our lounge. With a few
hams stopping by, they were fascinated with my small demo of ATV as they witnessed
our live video of our ATN’s Santiago Peak ATV amateur television repeater in Southern
California.

The Airmeet system is a great concept for hosting a virtual convention, but the web-based
application requires a huge demand on computer resources. To reach a level of
enjoyment for the participant and the presenters using the Airmeet application during the
QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo, a MINIMUM of an i5 / Ryzen class of processor with
multiple cores with at least 8 GB of memory is needed. Like most hams, including
myself, we enjoy turning dated PC’s and notebooks into usable “tools” for the hamshack,
especially utilizing video and audio for ATV purposes. Anything less than an i5 class of
processor and an internet pipe of less than 50 Mbits/s would have a horrendous
experience.

The Show Must Go On! --- Saturday, March 13th, I successfully logged into the Expo
and on the ready at our ATV lounge table a little after 8:00am Pacific Standard Time.
During the morning, I was greeted by Mike Collis – WA6SVT, Rod – WB9KMO, Bill
Brown – WB8ELK, and MANY HAM’s that were curious about the exotic mode of
ATV. The experience was much better at our table compared to Friday, but now I am
witnessing notification banners popping up, with many presentations were starting later
than their schedule times. Even worse, some presentations including our own Digital
Amateur Television presentation was completely dropped from the schedule strip in
Airmeet. Rod came to the rescue as he contacted Eric directly along with the support
team at Airmeet for the attempt to bring our ATV presentation back on the schedule strip.
In the meantime, I was receiving a BARRAGE of texts and notifications from our
attendees and ATV “family” asking why our presentation was cancelled. I replied and let
our potential audience know that “The SHOW will GO ON” and we are currently
working on the problem. Have no fear, we WILL host our presentation.

Over an hour has passed from the official 4:00pm PST start, we are back up on the
Airmeet’s schedule strip, and gained host privileges to BEGIN the presentation.
Expecting over a thousand or more attendees to watch our digital ATV presentation, Our
ATV / ATN team of presenters were very pleased as over 160 attendees did wait out the
“digital darkness” and attended our DATV talk. Even though the SHOW DID GO ON,
just shy of 5:30pm Pacific Standard Time, we did lose the bulk of our audience during
the “darkness” between 4:00pm – 5:25pm PST.

The presentation itself was phenomenally successful. We received a HUGE number of

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positive comments, including “Best presentation of the day,” “Well organized”, “Great
Video,” and “Great Job to the ATN Team,” including lots of “smiles and hearts” emojis
pouring in our presentation screen. I belted out laughing from a comment in the chat box
while our audience was watching our Hammy the Hamster segment and it said “I think
the video may have been hacked.” Priceless!

After a successful presentation, our ATN team headed back to our famous “Amateur
Television - Table #7 ” in the lounge. Hams attending the DATV presentation stopped
by and thank us for a job well done and also shared their own successes with amateur
television. As the Expo has drawn to a close for the evening, its time to “spring ahead”
towards a new day tomorrow!

Time to Change the Clocks! --- Sunday, March 14th. Waking up with a loss of an
hour’s sleep, I logged into the Expo again. Unfortunately, my presenter’s credential was
a problem as I was getting dropped from the system due to “your e-ticket is being shared
on another tab” notification. Deciding to go back to my paid “e-ticket” code, I was able
to log back into the system and attended at our ATV table for the last day of the SHOW.
I was greeted with new visitors and returning hams at our table. After 12:00 noon Pacific
Daylight Time, it was time to push in my virtual chair and turn off the virtual light at our
ATV lounge table to conclude our ATN’s participation with the QSO Today Virtual Ham
Expo – 2021.

In conclusion, I share the quote from Jim Lovell – Commander of the Apollo 13 space
rogram: Our experience of the 2nd running of the QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo can be
described as a “successful failure.” The attendees ultimately received the short end of the
stick of the March 2021 QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo due to the sessions not starting on
time or dropped from the schedule. After all, paid attendees have high expectations.
They paid their hard-earned money to attend an event (just like paying for a ticket to
watch a movie in a theater), acquire a “take-away” from the event, while having a very
enjoyable experience. I do hope the organizers of these ham Expos in the future will be
able to perform rehearsals with their presenters to iron out the technical issues prior to
SHOWTIME! On-line hamfests are greatly needed today, especially for the Amateur
Television Network to get the word out about the fascinating mode of fast scan amateur
television to our ham population throughout the world.

I am grateful and proud of our outstanding team within our ATN / ATV “family” that
enable us not only enabling us to participate in the Ham Expo but endured extremely long
hours in a truly short time to prepare and execute our DATV presentation. Even more
impressive is the heroic efforts of our ATV team, especially Rod, Mike, Jim, Bill and
many others to ensure the DATV SHOW MUST GO ON! I also want to especially thank
the brave and heroic efforts of Eric Guth, 4Z1UG and his team for doing the best they
could under extreme circumstances and consequences in hosting and executing a
mammoth project of this caliber, especially for his invaluable assistance in getting our
ATV presentation back on schedule and executed in our session room. The Airmeet
system is a great concept, but it is still in its infancy and needs to be vastly improved to
accommodate the numbers of attendees. Also, the Airmeet system needs to be scaled to
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accommodate a wide variety of systems and mobile devices so attendees from mobile
devices, notebooks, and desktops capable of simple videoconferencing will have an
enjoyable experience. Our ATV and ATN family are looking forwards in our return
towards the next Virtual Ham Expo in August.

73! Roland, KC6JPG, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

APOLOGY LETTER from HAM EXPO

First of all, I would like to apologize for the poor
experience that many of you had at the QSO Today
Virtual Ham Expo. After our very successful August
2020 Expo, I had a vision of combining what I loved
about the vFairs platform (which is what we used last
time) with a new technology that would provide a lot more
interaction between attendees, speakers, and exhibitors.

Unfortunately, we had many technical issues with the Airmeet Presentations and the inte-
gration of the vFairs and Airmeet platforms. My brilliant programmer offered his resig-
nation and to return his salary. Ridiculous, as the failure of this project was mine alone.
I am deeply sorry for letting you down.

Fortunately for all of us, we had all the video presentations pre-recorded in the event of a
technical disaster. Therefore, all of the presentations that were to take place over the
weekend are now in the final editing stages and will be available in the Expo Auditorium
within 48 hours. These videos are in glorious 1080P, high resolution, and streaming from
Vimeo (a proven and strong video platform). All of the 80+ speakers gave fantastic
presentations.

One of the things that we’ve stressed in all of our communications is that the QSO Today
Virtual Ham Expo team is committed to constantly learning and improving what we
do. Virtual conventions of this magnitude are new territory. We believe that there’s a
place for a virtual ham Expo to serve the needs of the very large amateur radio
community, especially those that don’t attend in-person national or regional events (or
even local events). We are committed to making that happen. Our first Expo was a great
success, our second one not so much. Setbacks happen but it’s important to keep moving
forward. As such, we are committed to getting “back on that horse”, learning from our
mistakes, and making sure that the next one is back on track. Please stay patient with us
and we’ll prove it to you. The QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo will return on August 14th
and 15th.
Humbly yours and 73, Eric Guth, 4Z1UG
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DOES DATV RADIATE AS FAR AS FM-VOICE ?

Jim, KH6HTV

The quick answer usually is NO ! Although this is also dependent upon terrain.

Recently Tom, W6ORG, referred Murray, K0TA to me. Murray lives in Chadron,
Nebraska, in the far north-west corner of the state, just below the Black Hills of South
Dakota. The Dawes County sheriff had asked Murray for the hams there to provide the
county with an ATV repeater system. Murray was going to file for a grant to fund the
project. I have been working with Murray to try to engineer an ATV repeater system.
Our first step was to prepare RF coverage maps for several potential repeater sites
Murray had identified. When I gave Murray some maps, he was shocked at the lack of
coverage. Murray is a two way mobile expert and was quite familiar with what he could
accomplish with two way FM voice radio repeaters in his area. My maps showed far
less coverage. Murray asked "Why ?"

Well, the first and biggest difference is related to Bandwidth and the resultant Noise
Floor. So, let's take some typical numbers to analyze The basic equation for thermal
noise power is: Pn = k * T * B. k is Boltzman's constant ( 1.38064852 x 10 -23 ) T is
absolute temperature in Kelvin's ( normal room temperature is assumed to be 295 o K ).
B is band-width in Hertz. Using this equation for a 6 MHz, DATV signal, the noise
floor for a receiver will be -106dBm. For an FM voice rig with 15 kHz bandwidth, it is
-132dBm.

Now for the FM voice rig we want a minimum of 10dB S/N for a readable signal, or
-122dBm (0.18μV) For DVB-T using a good low noise pre-amp on the receiver and 6
MHz BW, QPSK, 1080P resolution, and normal FEC of 5/6, the min. detectable signal
requires 8dB S/N, or about -98dBm (2.8μV). So right away, DATV has a -24dB
disadvantage.

The next issue is that of available transmitter power. Let's use the same amplifier for
both services. Taking my model 70-9B as an example. In FM service, it will put out
70 Watts (saturated). But for DVB-T service it puts out only 10 Watts (rms). The
amplifier has to provide at least 8dB of head-room to accommodate the high peaks in the
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random, noise-like digital signal. So we see still another 8dB disadvantage. We are
now up to a total of -32dB.

So, I will now run these numbers for one of Murray's Chadron, Nebraska repeater sites.
I will use the same antennas, tower heights and coax feed lines. The receiving station
will be Murray's 60ft. crank up tower with a high gain Yagi antenna. The maps shown
below are the results of the comparison. The difference is quite dramatic.

70cm, DVB-T coverage map (left) and 70cm, FM voice coverage map (right). Maps
generated to a max. radius of 100km (62 miles). The tear drop denotes the repeater site.
Yellow shading is for weak signal area (0 to 10dB). Green shading is for strong signal
area with signal > 10dB above threshold.. Note: Rapid City, SD is at top of map and
Cheyenne, WY is in lower left corner of map.
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RF Coverage Map for 70cm FM voice repeater now computed for a 200km radius
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W0BTV Details: Inputs: 439.25MHz, analog NTSC, VUSB-TV;

441MHz/6MHz BW, DVB-T & 1243MHz/6MHz BW, DVB-T
Outputs: 423MHz/6MHz BW, DVB-T, or optional 421.25MHz, analog VUSB-TV.
FM-TV output on 5.905 GHz (24/7).
Operational details in AN-51a Technical details in AN-53a. Available at:
https://kh6htv.com/application-notes/

ATV Net: We hold a social ATV net on Thursday afternoon at 3 pm local Mountain
time. The net typically runs for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. A DVD ham travelogue is usually
played for about one hour before and 1/2 hour after the formal net. ATV nets are
streamed live using the British Amateur TV Club's server, via:
https://batc.org.uk/live/kh6htvtvr or n0ye. We use the Boulder ARES (BCARES) 2
meter FM voice repeater for intercom. 146.760 MHz ( -600kHz, 100 Hz PL tone
required to access).

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