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Amateur Eye

Magazine of the South East Queensland Amateur Television group

Editorial

This is first club mag since the passing of Noel VK4KP.
Noel had done a great job as the Amateur Eye editor for a great many years.
The consensus at the April 2010 general meeting is that a printed magazine can not be justified
with the present low financial membership of eleven.

Although the SEQATV has a core of keen members, the club now needs to rebuild the membership
to have a good financial base and maintain its assets.

The club has been in discussion with the Brisbane Digital Television Group and the Queensland
Digital Group with the aim of working together to improve the present ATV repeaters located
at Ocean View. With the expected loss of lower part of 70CM by April 2011 or earlier, one
higher power digital output repeater would be the logical way to go.

Alan VK4NA

Review

kaiser baas TVStick dual

DVB-T dual tuner USB TV tuner using one antenna socket.
This is capable of true HD 1080i.
Works with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.
Comes with a small antenna that is only useful if you are close to the TV transmitters.
It only took 5 minutes to install the drivers and software from the included CD.
The Arcsoft TotalMedia software has fixed automatic tuning of Australian commercial TV
channels, so can not be used to tune ATV repeaters.
Other tuner software can be used but has not yet been tested; look out for this in a future
article.

Alan VK4NA

Web sites sent in from members

The Amateur Television Network

Fast Scan Amateur Television in Alabama, Arizona, Northern California
Southern California, Georga, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New Mexico, Nevada,
Texas, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
( . . . and worldwide by way of the internet.)
http://atn-tv.org/ATN.php

MediaPortal

Open source mediacenter
MediaPortal turns your PC and TV into a very advanced home media center. Our software
allows you to listen to your favorite music and radio stations; watch and store your
videos and DVDs; view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder; and much,
much more. MediaPortal is open source software. This means you can help develop MediaPortal
or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovative plugins from our great community.
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/

2.4GHZ and 5.8GHz RF modules

AIRWAVE
http://www.airwave.com.tw/product.htm

Digital Amateur Television

American DATV Articles
http://www.w6ze.org/DATV/

SEQATV information

Meeting Information

Unless otherwise noted, general meetings are held on the first Friday on the month at the Chermside
Library, room 2a.
The doors will open at 7:30pm; if you arrive late, please push the buzzer for entry.
The library is near the shops on the corner of Hamilton Rd and Kittyhawk Dr (enter from Kittyhawk Dr).

There is a talk in on the Brisbane 147.00 MHz repeater.

Location map:
http://my247.com.au/brisbane/Chermside-Library.6803

Meeting dates

2 July 2010
6 August 2010
3 September 2010
1 October 2010
5 November 2010
3 December 2010 (visit from the Queensland Digital Group)

Club Officers

PRESIDENT TIM MOORE VK4TIM
SECRETARY DAVID EVANS VK4DJE
TREASURER JIM NEWMAN VK4XYZ

TECHNICAL OFFICER MARTIN POWELL VK4JVC
PROJECT OFFICER Vacant
MEETING HOSTESS JUDY EVANS VK4AJE
TECHNICAL LIBRARIAN Vacant
VIDEOTAPE LIBRARIAN DON BLAND VK4TVD
CLUB LIAISON OFFICER PETER JONES VK4YAC
AMATEUR EYE (club mag) ALAN WILLS VK4NA
WEBMASTER ALAN WILLS VK4NA

End of financial year March 31

Club Net

Wednesday nights

7:30 PM EST on VK4RAX 147.075 MHz repeater or 145.700 MHz if the repeater is off air.

GROUP REPEATERS

Voice

2 metre VK4RAX 147.075 MHz (+ offset) Brisbane
70 CM VK4RTQ 438.025 MHz (- offset) Gold to Sunshine Coasts

ATV

VK4RMG 444.240 MHz Vision Carrier 449.750 MHz Sound Carrier (switchable to Stereo)
Input Frequency: 1283 MHz FM-ATV with Dual sub-carriers at 5.5 & 5.7 MHz

ATV Liaison Frequency: 145.700 MHz Simplex
ATV Liaison Frequency: 145.675 MHz Simplex voice and SSTV
ATV Liaison Frequency: 145.200 MHz Simplex (for digital ATV)

Contact Information

P.O. Box 3, Chermside QLD 4032, Australia

Email: seqatv@gdq.org.au

Web site: http://www.qdg.org.au/seqatv.htm

Enjoy your hobby!

73 Alan VK4NA

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