[BLT] Correction - Re: ATV Question

[Andy MacAllister]

Slight correction...
It is a table for ten, not table 10...
We had eight for dinner in December.
We expect a few more for January.

C U all there!

Andy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy MacAllister" <w5acm at swbell.net>
To: <blt at stevens.com>
Sent: Friday, December 25, 2009 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: [BLT] ATV Question


> All of our current FM-ATV gear comes from GNUPIC on eBay - in The 
> Netherlands.
> We have checked out his 900 MHz, 1.2 GHz and 2.4 GHz transmitters and 
> receivers.
> We prefer the 1.2 GHz band due to previous operations and successes.
> It would be interesting to try 900 MHz for ATV via balloon.
> We intend to use 2.4 GHz for ham-WiFi on our next flight.
>
> Andy W5ACM
>
> BTW: We have table 10 reserved at the Brickhouse on 290 for our next BLT
> dinner meeting.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Boone" <cboone at earthlink.net>
> To: <blt at stevens.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 5:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [BLT] ATV Question
>
>
>> (Guess I need to make breakfast more often) I wasn't aware of a balloon
>> group interest here, Brian.
>>
>> 1.2Ghz vs UHF allows use of FM vs AM....FM TV requires less power and is
>> easier to implement on the xmit side; antennas are smaller thus making
>> them
>> have more gain..But on the negative side, the rcvr side requires a FM to
>> video converter and you can't run FM on UHF TV because of the bandwidth.
>>
>> Gear for 1.2Ghz FM TV is readily available from numerous sources 
>> including
>> W6ORG's site and Ebay among others
>>
>> Chris
>> WB5ITT
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blt-bounces at stevens.com [mailto:blt-bounces at stevens.com] On Behalf
>> Of
>> TxLawMan at aol.com
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 4:21 PM
>> To: blt at stevens.com
>> Subject: [BLT] ATV Question
>>
>> I am not sure if I have mentioned this or not, but we got a balloon 
>> group
>> started over here in the Beaumont area. We divided up jobs at our last
>> (first) meeting and one of mine is to look into ATV gear; cost, best gear
>> etc. I
>> am curious why the BLT team has gone with the 1.2 gig video versus the 
>> UHF
>> frequencies, where you could watch it on most analog TVs. I am also very
>> open to suggestions on good gear, power levels, etc.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Brian
>> KC5YSM