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1a. Re: Friday Night ATV Banquet
From: Art Towslee
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1a. Re: Friday Night ATV Banquet
Posted by: "Art Towslee" towslee1@ee.net wa8rmc
Date: Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:36 pm ((PDT))
James and Yahoo group,
The following is the correspondence I sent to the Hamvention and ATVQ
Magazine for publication either in part or whole. It includes the
details for the Friday night gathering. ATVQ will publish details and
include a map. If you wish to present something on Friday, I suggest you
arrange that through Ron Cohen K3ZKO.
See you at Dayton!!!!!
Regards,
Art Towslee
WA8RMC
Hamvention ATV forum moderator
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1130-1330 ATV (FAST SCAN AMATEUR TELEVISION)
Ron Cohen, K3ZKO will speak first about, "An Introduction to ATV". The
subject matter will include, equipment used in ATV and where to purchase
it, how to assemble an ATV station and expected results. It will be
helpful to those just starting as well as those yet planning to enter
this hobby.
Ron, in the 60's was on the prime Apollo recovery ship transmitting
live splashdown TV to the world. Later he was involved in the two-way
radio service business and has been in TV-Guide magazine and on NBC
National news speaking about Amateur Television. He was also the
original publisher/editor of A5 Magazine which was the forerunner to the
present day ATVQ Magazine.
Dave Stepnowski, KC3AM will speak next about "Comtek module uses". These
Taiwan made transmit and receive modules have been very popular with
ATVers as they provide easy and inexpensive ways to get on the air. Dave
will point out some of the effective ways they can be utilized.
Dave was first licensed in 1976 as WB3GDB and worked in the CATV &
Satellite TV fields since high school. He currently works at Verizon
with fiber optics and high speed data for major business and inter
office communications companies. He's been involved in ATV for 20 years
and maintains three repeaters in DE, PA & MD using AM & FM from 440 MHz
through 2.4 GHz. He is the Vice President of the Delaware Repeater
Association.
Henry Ruh, AA9XW will speak about "Reliability: Analog or Digital for
linking". This involves setting up requirements for linking multiple
ATV repeaters as well as building techniques.
Henry is the former publisher editor of A5 and ATVQ magazines and author
of nearly a dozen books on TV technology with over 40 years broadcast
experience including an Emmy for technical achievement, and several ham
radio awards from ARRL and other organizations. He first became a ham
in 1969 and put his first ATV station on the air in 1971. He has taught
university level TV production, business management. He is currently
the chief engineer for Chicago TV station, and contract engineer for
Qalcomm/MediaFLO.
Bill Brown, WB8ELK will talk about "Simplex ATV repeaters and balloon
ATV". Bill's ballooning experiences will be outlined along with NASA
involvement. ATV repeater experiences will also be discussed.
Bill has been involved with high altitude ballooning with and without
ATV cameras for many years. Bill is also the designer of the now famous
Elktronics TV identifier PCB used by almost all ATV repeaters for on
screen identification purposes.
Mike Collis, WA6SVT will talk about, "The Amateur TV Network in
California". This network is the largest and most complex in the USA
The topics will include linking ATV repeaters and equipment needed
including ATN's state of the art 16 input 8 output ATV controller
that can be field configured using a laptop.
Mike has been licensed since 1972 and started building ATV equipment in
1976. By 1979 he built an ATV repeater to cover the greater Los Angeles
area and by the early 1980s started working with other ATVers in
Southern California to build more ATV repeaters and link them together.
He has a background in Broadcast TV and currently an engineer for CBS TV
in Los Angeles. Mike also helped start the Amateur Television Network
(ATN) in Southern California. ATN has spread across the county and
chapters have formed in many other states.
WA8RMC and KB8OFF will talk about the progress with the ATCO and DARA
ATV groups. Jessie and I will briefly discuss the progress of linking
the ATCO and DARA ATV repeaters. The DARA ATV repeater is undergoing a
site change which Jessie will address. The ATCO group is refining the
digital ATV portion of its operation so I will touch on that subject. We
have also discussed establishing a digital ATV link between us.
I have been involved with ATV since 1965 and am recently retired from
my engineering job of 43 years. In the years since 1965 I've been
involved in almost all aspects of ATV in the UHF/microwave bands
including digital ATV. I am presently involved in writing a new ATV
chapter for a future release of the ARRL Handbook . I am currently the
president of the ATCO ATV group in central Ohio and the editor/publisher
of the ATCO Newsletter. Last year I was blessed to become the Hamvention
ATV moderator.
The ATV Friday night dinner and discussion will be held on Hamvention
Friday from 7 till 10PM at Roush's Restaurant 305 W Main St. in
Fairborn, OH 45324 (at the north end of Wright Patterson airfield
runway). The dinner menu is varied, moderately priced and ordered
separately. We will enjoy a sit down dinner then have speakers talk
about various ATV topics. We will also include door prizes for those
present. Meeting terminates at about 10PM.
Directions: Take I-75 north then I-70 east. Exit SR 235/ SR4 south
(Fairborn exit). South on 235 about 1 mile then left on Chambersburg
road (east & still SR235 past airport runway). Right on N. Broad street
for about 10 blocks. Turn left on W. Main street for 3 blocks to Miller
Ave. Roush's is on corner of W. Main and Miller. Parking in rear.
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w8iss@wideopenwest.com wrote:
> > Anybody know the plans yet and who to talk to about the presentations
> > for the
> > dinner Friday night at Dayton?
> >
> > James W8ISS
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