Or should you prefer to contact the Kent Television Group by e-mail, send your message HERE.

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     The Group's analogue TV repeater GB3KT (original callsign) was closed down in 2017 after coming up to nearly 30 years service. At one time the KTG boasted a membership in excess of 50 and is greatly missed by those still around who remember the 'good old days'.

      Photo: The repeater shortly before it was taken off the air and located on the North Downs to the north of Lenham village in Kent.

      We are keen to keep the Group going, all be it informally. Anybody interested in getting involved please contact us via the link above. A digital drive source may be available (NoVs are not available for FM repeaters), as well as logic, analogue receiver and antenna. If there was sufficient interest and a suitable site was found, GB3KT callsign could be re-applied for with an NoV. The proposed GB3DK repeater at Stelling Minnis, Kent, didn't go ahead, but is now operational in the London area on 9cm.

      The KTG analogue transmitter has been 'lost', we are making efforts to track it down, as we would like to put it back on air, possibly in beacon mode initially, in an attempt to regenerate interest. There are several possible development ideas we have in mind, anticipated changes to license conditions in 2024 do not impact on this.

      FM mode or AM mode on 70cm, as opposed to digital, have always been the preferred methods of modulation by the Kent Television Group and this is still the case. There are currently occasional skeds operating in Kent in the 70cm, 23cm and 13cm bands using FM-TV. A 2W FM-TV TX in the 6cm band on 5665MHz (Ch33) is also available, horizontally polarised, using a 20.9dBD flat antenna, beamed by arrangement from JO01MI for testing.

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      Room for anymore? Spotted on the roof of a block of flats in Bognor Regis, West Sussex.

      Kent TV News Update

      10.03.24 Manned analogue video beacon or repeater planned for north Kent and south Essex areas on 23cm.

      01.12.23 No changes to FM-TV on 23cm band expected after consultations.

      02.11.23 Now available 70cm analogue ATV at G4AYT and G6PKS.

      12.06.22 G4HIZ QRV portable from Stockbury Church area on 5.665GHz.

      6cm (5.665GHz) ATV available for testing by arrangement (to align antenna) with G4AYT from JO01MI.

      GB3CZ, ATV beacon, Clacton, Essex, readily received along the north Kent coast, on 13cm (2432MHz) shown as non operational.

      Proposed GB3DK now GB3JV digital, operational south east London (Repeater TX 3404MHz RX 2440MHz).

      BATC net via satellite, 2000GMT Thursdays, no membership required to view, link on BATC website.

      GB3LO, Lowestoft, Suffolk, regular RX in Kent, shown as long term off air since March 2021. Return planned with analogue.

      We would like to keep the KTG 'live' for any type of ATV in Kent, interested? Please get in touch via link top of the page. Currently the       KTG is operating informally.

      Our 6cm analogue ATV Information Page can be found, HERE.

      We're working on a new information page for narrow bandwidth television, HERE.

      Site last updated: March 2024.   © G4AYT 2024