ATN Yearly Meeting

 It's that time of year again for our annual meeting. On February 11, 1995 Saturday at 1:00 PM at 250 Turner Ave. Ontario Ca. (Guasti Village Area). It's in the television center for Caritsa Telecommunications located behind the Catholic Church, next to the 130 ft. tower. The phone number at Guasti is 909-983-5113 if you get lost. Please RSVP so Mike WA6SVT and crew can make preparations. Mike's number is 909-338-6887 or BOX 1594, Crestline, Ca. 92325.

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 Hello my name is Robert KC6GAG. With the help of the user base and members of ATN, we can have a great news letter for all. Please send me your views and news, upcoming events, photos, and stories of all kinds. I'm sure we can make room for all.

Special Announcement

 Mike Collis WA6SVT is engaged, oh my does this mean no more trips to the mountain tops in the middle of the night? Mike met his fiancee Natasha while on vacation to Europe this summer. Natasha has a daughter Victoria that just turned 3 years old this month. Mike will have a new life style to get used to soon. Congratulations Mike and Natasha.

Happy New Year

 The new year has started with many new additions and changes to the Santiago repeater. Santiago Peak has a new controller, thanks to Geoff (KB7BY) and a new VSB modulator for superior pictures, thanks to Mike (KC6CCC). The 2441 MHz FM input is up and working, thanks to Jim (KC6TFV). Mike KC6CCC has built up a 10.4 GHz receiver for a third input to Santiago. Thank you Mike. The 10 GHz input should be installed by the time this letter is sent out. Polarization will be horizontal on 10 GHz and at a distance of 25 miles from the repeater we recommend a +50 dBM ERP (100 watts) for a good picture. A two foot dish and 50 milliwatts will give this power at 10 GHz. We purchased a three monitor system from Mark NU6X to allow the service crew to have three separate color monitors to use during service. Again thanks to all for your hard work.

Mike WA6SVT

Riverside ATV Demo a Big Hit!

 Members of the Riverside amateur radio club became "stars" during their November meeting as an ATV demonstration was held on November 10, 1994.

"I didn't think we would be able to transmit an ATV signal" says Roland Hoffman - KC6JPG, who conducted the demo, "The site was located on the 3rd floor of the Harris Department Store in downtown Riverside, with "NO OUTSIDE WINDOWS, AND NO OUTSIDE DOORS!" After setting up the equipment & rotating the antenna array (aiming between the rebar of the building) the club was able to monitor the WA6SVT - Santiago Peak Repeater with a P-4 (near perfect) picture. After a test transmission was made, reports from the ATV'ers indicated that the picture had a bit of noise but receiving in FULL COLOR ( even though the monitors were showing a B/W picture during our transmissions). Dave - KA6DPS in Nuevo awed the crowd that night by displaying unique special effects using his Video Toaster. Various members of the club had the opportunity to ask questions directly to the ATV'ers on the Santiago Peak System and actually WATCHED their responses.

The members of the Riverside Club thoroughly enjoyed the presentation. Some members enjoyed it so much, they've already have purchased their downconverters & currently monitoring the Santiago Peak repeater (while they save their money in order to buy or build their transmitters).

Thanks to all of the ATV'ers for your participation & support that night for introducing prospective ATV'ers (and ATN members) to Amateur Television.

SPECIAL THANKS

Donations for Blue Ridge Amp.
STEVE AA6SN, MIKE WA6SVT, TONY K6LKH, RANDY N6MNV, DICK WB6LGL, AL KF6YM, MOODY WQ6I, JOHN KC6YVS, GREG N6TDZ, GARY WB6VVV, REED WA6BFK, RON KC6KDO, JIM KC6TFV

Donations for Oat Mt. preamp.
STAN KC6NNO, WARREN W6YGP

Donations and or equipment for Blue Ridge Turnaround.
KEN K6IIS, JOHN KB6MMF, JOHN KC6YVS, DAVE KA6DPS, JIM KC6TFV

Donations for Santiago Monitors.
DAVE WB8TMP, REED WB6BFK, MAC KA6UUS, DAVE KA6DPS

Donation for Santiago Peak (4 input video board so we can show all 4 video inputs at once).
BARRY KC6OXK

Donations of equipment and Tech. advice.
SAM K6VLM, MIKE KC6CCC, JIM KC6TFV

Hello From San Diego

 The Palomar ATV repeater went on the air in May of 1994. First, we went on the air with a 919.25 AM TV input and 146.43 (PL 79.7) intercom. We've added a 2417 studio transmit link from just North of Mission Valley and a 915 FM TV input on the studio transmit link.

NASA C band shuttle video is retransmitted along with 1253 from Santiago Peak. We are presently collecting equipment to add 426.25 and 434 AM TV inputs as well as our 33 cm input to Santiago Peak on 2.4 GHz. This should be accomplished by late Spring of 1995.

The Palomar site is located 160 feet down the South face of Bouchard Hill on Palomar Mountain, which shields us to the North and allows us to have the same output as Wilson.

Looking forward to seeing you all in person at the ATN gathering in February.

Bill Smith, KB6MCU

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