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Welcome
to the home of the British Amateur Television Club
The
BATC was founded in 1949 to
promote our
hobby of Amateur Television (ATV) and
is
the largest such specialist
organization in the world with 15% of our members
living outside the UK. We are a non profit organisation and the club is
run by its members
on a voluntary basis. The club covers all aspects of Television from
making and
editing programmes to transmitting television on the amateur radio
bands.
The
club provides the following for its members:
- A colour magazine, CQ-TV, is produced for members
in paper or .pdf (cyber
membership) formats.
- This web
site where you can find our online shop stocking hard to get
components, software
downloads for published projects and much
more.
- A
members forum at http://www.batc.org.uk/forum/ for help, information and the
interchange of ideas.
- A
video
streaming facility at http://www.batc.tv
which enables
repeaters and individual members to
be seen worldwide.
- An annual Convention held in the UK
where you
can meet other members, visit demonstrations and listen to lectures.
2.3 GHz band changes:
As
was predicted at the BATC BGM last October it is highly likely that
there will be changes to the amateur allocations at 2.3 GHz, which will
almost certainly affect ATV repeaters and simplex operation. The
good news is that an additional 1 MHz may become available at 147 MHz
and BATC have already put in the case for narrow band DATV. The
RSGB and BATC are involved in the assesment process with Ofcom - for
the latest updates see the BATC forum page.
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