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Updated 26 January, 2004 |
| G3PHO - brilliant site for anyone interested in 1000MHz + | http://www.g3pho.free-online.co.uk/microwaves/ |
| G4DDK - Sam's microwave site | http://www.btinternet.com/~jewell/ |
| G4KNZ - an up to date list of Amateurs interested in Microwaves | http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/7012/emails.htm |
| G8ACE - 76 GHz and stable LO sources for microwave | http://www.microwaves.mcmail.com/index.htm |
| W1GHZ | http://www.w1ghz.org/ |
| VK5KK - Well anyone would go portable in that weather! | http://www.ozemail.com.au/~tecknolt/ |
| Mitsubishi Gasfet data sheets | http://www.mitsubishichips.com/data/datasheets/hf-optic/highpower_GaAs.htm |
| K2AH - home of some serious 1296 and 10 GHz metalwork! | http://www.k2ah.com/ |
| WA1MBA - Tom's microwave site | http://www.wa1mba.org/ |
| VE7DLH - Ken's site with loads of links | http://www.rac.ca/micrwave.htm |
| Site which calculates the sun's az and el at any stated location at intervals through the day. Great for microwave dish alignment. | http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/docs/AltAz.html |
| UK mapping site which uses OS Landranger maps (you know, the pink ones) for the 25,000 and 50,000 zooms. Great for site spotting! | www.multimap.com |
| Even better UK mapping site which gives you the 12-digit OS reference from the cursor position and Lat and Long to WGS84 datum. | http://www.streetmap.co.uk |
| Ever wondered about the night sky and what you are seeing? Or do you just want to see the ISS...then this is the site to go to. | http://www.heavens-above.com/ |
| Radio Caroline - Definitely for the over 40s, not some much useful as nostalgic! | http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/ |
| Satmaster software, does link budget preparation, sun outage prediction and satellite antenna aiming for geo-satellites. Free demo available. Well worth a visit. | http://www.arrowe.co.uk/ |
| 3 websites aimed at the professional RF engineer but full of useful data | http://rfcafe.com |
| http://www.sss-mag.com | |
| http://www.rfglobalnet.com | |
| Buckmasters call list - I know everyone has it listed but it is useful! | http://www.buck.com/cgi-bin/do_hamcall |
| William Hepburn's tropo ducting forecasting site. A live on line forecast for where ducts may occur on VHF and UHF - interesting , but does it work? | http://web.tiscalinet.it/ik8uif/ |
| Power to microwave to db chart - most useful | http://www.ipass.net/~teara/dbm.html |
| ePanorama - links to a host of electronics related sites | http://www.epanorama.net/ |
| DIY electronics - yet another general electronics links page | http://kitsrus.com/back.html |
| List of interesting mods to various rigs | http://www.phreak.org/radio/mods/ |
| G6VLB's site with AO40 info etc... | http://www.g6lvb.com/index.htm |
| I've just got an FT817 as a microwave IF - so here are a few pages of interest to 817 owners | http://www.k6xx.com/ft817/ft817.html |
| Excellent, very detailed radio path mapping software, well worth getting to know. | http://www.cplus.org/rmw/english1.html |
| G8DJU's site with lots of mapping/path plotting software | http://uhars.herts.ac.uk/~g8dju/pathplot/ |
| Very comprehensive ham radio software site with antennae and propagation sections. | http://www.ac6v.com/pageap.html |
| David Taylor's site with good weather satellite and audio tools | http://www.david-taylor.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/software/index.html |
| Interesting stuff including CLI program for the PC and satellite tracking program with auto Kelperian updates from the internet. | http://members.fortunecity.com/net23uk/scottsoft.html |
| Bob Frith's site for Polar plot - excellent s/w for getting the polar plot of your beams. | http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/aci07/polarplot/index.shtml |
| Gartrip - designed as GPS software but useful for accurate datum changes - Lat and Long to NGR etc | http://www.gartrip.de/ |
| G4ICD | http://web.libertysurf.co.uk/geoff.brown/ |
| G7KPF | http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/kama/hamlinks.htm |
| G4NJH | http://www.innotts.co.uk/~asperges/ |
| UHF listing by WZ1V | http://uhavax.hartford.edu/disk$userdata/faculty/newsvhf/www/vhf-www.html |
| ON6DV - Enormous amateur radio and electronics links list | http://user.online.be/~odb000909/ |
| German Ham radio gateway | http://www.thiecom.de/service/fs_menu.html |
| UK frequency band allocations - pages and pages of info, DC to light! | http://www.cpe.surrey.ac.uk/support/spectrum.htm |
| More detailed UK list | http://members.dencity.com/vipernet/hacking/scanlist.txt |
| World wide Satellite transponder charts | http://www.lyngsat.com/ |
| European Beacon list from G3PHO | http://www.g3pho.free-online.co.uk/microwaves/eubcon.htm |
| UK microwave video link charts | JFMG web site |
| John Silver's site with loads of practical information on weather satellites etc | http://www.odyseus.clara.co.uk/index.htm |
| Very good site for links on Amateur and weather satellites | http://users.skynet.be/on1cau/ |
| Marius Rensen's site with HF Fax and WX sat info and links | http://hffax.de/ |
| Paul Hayes' wx sat with full details on the QFH aerial | http://www.hayes06.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm |
Even basic components are becoming hard to get hold. The suppliers listed here may be able to help.
| BAREND HENDRIKSEN ELECTRONICS - RF & special components including an 800MHz spectrum analyser kit. | http://www.xs4all.nl/~barendh |
| Diverse components - Southampton. Stock range includes electronic components new, old and hard to find test equipment etc | http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~diverse/ |
| Cooke international - Test equipment supplier | http://www.cooke-int.com/stock.htm |
| Harrison Electronics - general component stockists | http://www.heweb.co.uk |
| RSGB microwave component service - Useful stuff like 10GHz multipliers etc | http://www.g3wdg.free-online.co.uk/ |
| 1 watt 13 cms Amplifiers | http://www.crosswinds.net/~atv13cms |
| DL2AM - some interesting power amps etc | http://www.dl2am.de/ |
| Down East Microwave - seems to be the place in the USA for microwave bits | http://downeastmicrowave.com/ |
| DB6NT - Kuhne microwave | http://www.db6nt.com/ |
| GH Engineering - Grant's company who make big PAs for 23cm without the need for 1,000 volt PSUs! | http://www.ghengineering.co.uk/ |
| G1MFG - No list is complete without Giles - 23 and 13cm tx and rx modules! | http://www.g1MFG.com |
| Wyzcom -ATV supplier in Northern Ireland | www.wyzcom.com/retail/amateurtv/ |
| PE1CMO - 10 GHz multipliers etc | http:/home.planet.nl/~pe1cmo |
| Blackboxcamera - PIC based video character generator, as reviewed in CQTV 192. Interesting site with various "projects" | |
| GH Engineering - Grant's company who make big PAs for 23cm without the need for 1,000 volt PSUs! | http://www.ghengineering.co.uk/ |
| RSE Electronics in Belgium | http://www.rse-electronics.com/rse_index.htm |
| Yahoo | http://www.yahoo.co.uk |
| Alta Vista - the best | http://www.altavista.com |
A list of active 10 GHz ATV stations with web sites. If you are not listed, email me.
| Call sign/comments | Web site | |
| G1HIA - Phil, Bristol area | http://www.qsl.net./g1hia/ | |
| PE1RJU | http://home.wxs.nl/~pe1rju/ | |
| G7JTT - John, Southampton, UK | http://www.jmkl.freeserve.co.uk/ | |
| G0WJR | http://www.qsl.net/g0wjr/ | |
| PA3GCO - details on high power Blue Cap LNB transmitters. | http://www.qsl.net/pa3gco/ | |
| PE1CEO | [email protected] | |
| PE1PSJ - Arne | [email protected] | |
| PE1DCD - contact via PE1PSJ | ||
| G4NJJ - Peter, Kings Lynn. Site updated with really good section on "how to get going on 10GHz ATV". | http://www.qsl.net/g4njj | |
| The record we will be attempting to beat in 2001 - but how? | http://www.cmo.ch/swissatv/news081.htm | |
| Alberto - IK8UIF. Beware the annoying music! | http://web.tiscalinet.it/ik8uif/ | |
| VK3TMS and VK3JDG - Melbourne Australia | http://www.geocities.com/vk3rtv/pix10ghz.html | |
| G3RFL - John, Clevedon | www.g3rfl.ukhome.net |
UK |
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| G1LWX - Mike, Ashton in Makerfield | http://www.amateurtv.freeserve.co.uk/ |
| G8LES - Four Marks, UK with the UKRS ATV page | http://www.ukrs.org/sigs/fstv.htm |
| G3KTU - Tony, Bournemouth, UK | http://www.g3ktu.freeserve.co.uk |
| G8XEU - Robin, including PC-ATV shareware testcards | http://www.arcadeshop.demon.co.uk/atv/ |
Europe |
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| S51KQ - Site full of ideas, links and h/w + s/w modules for ATV repeaters etc | http://lea.hamradio.si/~s51kq/ATVS.HTM |
| ON9CJX - Full details of amateur Teletext generator | http://users.pandora.be/on9cjx/ |
| PE1ORZ - in Dutch | http://home.planet.nl/~pe1orz/ |
| OH3TR | http://oh3tr.ele.tut.fi/english/atvindex.html |
| IK1HGI - Aerials for 1.3 and 2.4 GHz | http://www.qsl.net/ik1hgi/atv2.htm |
| F1LXL - in French | http://perso.club-internet.fr/houssinj/ |
| ON9CJX - simple 3 chip teletext genrator | http://users.pandora.be/on9cjx/ |
| ON6DV | http://user.online.be/~odb000909/ |
New Zealand |
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| ZL1VFO - Good site with technical articles on Nicam and Teletext | |
Switzerland |
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| HB9AFO - good site with up to date articles | http://www.von-info.ch/hb9afo/ |
| List of Dutch ATV amateurs | http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/PI6ATV/atv_nederland.htm |
| List of ATV stations outside Holland | http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/PI6ATV/atv_buitenland.htm |
| List of Swiss/French ATV stations | http://www.cmo.ch/swissatv/email.htm |
UK |
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| Severnside repeater group | http://www.qsl.net/stg/ |
| GB3EN - North London | http://members.tripod.co.uk/~nltg/ |
| GB3YT - Yorkshire | http://www.gb3yt.org.uk/ |
| GB3HV - Tom Brady's site with info about UK ATV repeaters | http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~tomgrady/hamatv.htm |
| GB3TB - Torbay | http://www.tars.org.uk/gb3tb |
| Worthing repeater group | http://www.videorepeater.co.uk/ |
| SCART repeater group in Southampton | http://www.qsl.net/scart |
| Kent TV repeater group | http://www.the-linfords.demon.co.uk/ktg/ |
Holland |
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| PI6ATV | http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/PI6ATV/ |
| PI6ALK - Dutch repeater with o/p on Eutelsat | http://www.pi6alk.nl |
USA |
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| WB7FID - UTAH. One of the best repeater sites I've found to date. Loads of info and technical articles including "how to guess a P grade!" | http://www.ussc.com/~uarc/utah_atv/utah_atv.html |
| N2SMT - New Jersey. Interesting site (www and aerials at 350 feet!) | http://www.njin.net/~magliaco/atv.html |
| KC6CCC - Santiago. | http://www.qsl.net/kc6ccc/ |
| W6YX - Palo Alto, California. 2.4GHz output and what a site! | http://w6yx.stanford.edu/~stevem/atv/index.html |
France |
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| F1ZEN - Pen Ar Bed country, Brittany. Some technical articles and circuits. | http://www.multimania.com/f1zen/ |
New Zealand |
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| Auckland TV repeater group - Very interesting pages | |
Australia |
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| VK3RTV - Melbourne Australia | http://www.geocities.com/vk3rtv/index.html |
Most include call sign and frequency etc
| Excel spreadsheet listing all UK repeaters, including new proposals, showing frequency and location etc. Also calculates bearing and distance from any QRA which you enter. | http://www.batc.org.uk/contest_information_files.htm |
| List of all Dutch repeaters including TV | http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/PI6ATV/atv_buitenland.htm |
| List of German ATV repeaters | http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/PI6ATV/duitse_repeater.htm |
| List of Belgian TV repeaters | http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/PI6ATV/belgie_repeater.htm |
| UK repeater management committee (RMC) site with lists of all UK repeaters. | http://www.coldal.org.uk/rmc.htm |
| List of all Eire repeaters including ATV | http://www.irts.ie/repeater.htm |
| Links to most lists for most European countries - I have not checked them all for ATV! | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanvu/benelux.html |
| List of French ATV repeaters | http://www.ref.tm.fr/cnrr/reltva.html |
| AGAF - German ATV society | http://www.darc.de/distrikte/g/t-agaf/ |
| British Amateur TV club | http://www.batc.org.uk |
| Swiss ATV society | http://www.cmo.ch/swissatv/index.html |
| Rheinland ATV group | http://www.rhein-land.com/atv/index.htm |
| Irish ATV society | http://homepage.eircom.net/~iatc/ |
| USA ATV society | http://www.qsl.net/atna |
Other lists like this!
| USA ATV site with world repeater list etc. | |
| German ATV link list | http://www.rhein-land.com/atv/other.htm |
| DARC link list - ATV plus radio and electronics | http://www.darc.de/distrikte/g/links/technik.htm |
| The DX zone ATV listing - good search engine listing for ATV | http://www.dxzone.com/catalog/Reference/Amateur_Television/ |
A selection of TV related home build projects I've found on the web.
Video projects |
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| PIC cross hatch generator by Dave Woodhouse | http://www.twobit.freeserve.co.uk/pictv.htm |
| BATC CQ-TV site with various PIC projects including PIC DREAMS and the basic repeater controller by G6WJJ. (Note: there is now a version of the 2 chip repeater controller available with on board audio oscillator - contact me for details) | http://www.cq-tv.com/software.htm |
| Misc projects including sync detector and base band processing | http://www.rhein-land.com/atv/misc.htm |
| Daniel Jones PIC based character generator and clock | http://www.ozemail.com.au/~dljones/vcg.htm |
1.3 GHz projects |
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| List of articles found by G1MFG including plate aerials | http://www.g1mfg.com/website/Datastuff/borrowed/borrowed.html |
2.3 GHz projects |
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| Easy build helical aerial for 2.4 GHz | http://home.iprimus.com.au/jhecker/ |
| OH2AUE "S band " page with useful 1.2 and 2.3GHz projects | http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/oh2aue/s_test.htm |
| QFH aerial for 2.3 GHz | http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/oh2aue/qbfhelix.gif |
| WK8L pages with 2.3 GHz coffee tin aerials | http://www.qsl.net/wk8l/index.html |
| IK8UIF - 2.3 GHz, PLLs, downconvertors and transmitters | http://web.tiscalinet.it/ik8uif/projects.htm |
10 GHz projects |
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| PA3GCO - details on high power Blue Cap LNB transmitters. | http://www.qsl.net/pa3gco/ |
| IK8UIF - Cambridge LNB 60 mw tx , a single transistor 100 mwatt and a 2 transistor 1 watt amp design | http://web.tiscalinet.it/ik8uif/projects.htm |
| A collection of links to other 10 GHz project pages | http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/System/5140/10gig.html |
Miscellaneous |
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| A site with loads of data sheets and RF projects for VHF transmitters including an RDS encoder?! | http://freud.et.tudelft.nl/~pulsarfm/nojava.htm |
| Things you can do with your PC sound card | http://www.muenster.de/~welp/sb.htm#voice |
| An interesting video related site | http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/System/5140/ |
| NASA TV | http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/ |
| The USA have woken to using 2.4 GHz video senders for ATV! | http://www.ipass.net/~teara/atv4.html |
| Good site explaining the basics of MPEG-2 and DVB digital video compression, modulation and transmission. | http://www.coolstf.com/mpeg/index.html |
| G3ZDM's site explaining MPEG2 and DVB | http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/Institutter/smi/ksv/digfaq.html |
| Melbourne repeater technical pages with P grade picture guide, dBm to watts conversion chart and camera pinouts | http://www.geocities.com/vk3rtv/atvfreq.html |
| HB9AFO site listing portable ATV activity | http://www.von-info.ch/hb9afo/portable.htm |
See below for general microwave suppliers
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