HamTV Reception Reports

[G8GKQ]

Please provide reception reports by posting to this topic. It would be good if you could include details of Dish size, receiver, decoding software, reception time, reception duration, peak MER and picture content.

(as an example: 80 cm dish, G4DDK preamp, Calafornia Amplifier downconverter, PicoTuner and Ryde, start 1505 UTC, end 1508 UTC, peak MER 8 dB, blank raster)

Thanks

Dave, G8GKQ

[G8GKQ]

Pleased to say that I received HamTV on the first pass after switch-on:

G8GKQ IO91CC Salisbury, Southern England.

90 cm dish, G4DDK preamp, California Amplifier downconverter, PicoTuner and Ryde, start 1505 UTC, end 1508 UTC, peak MER 15 dB, blank raster (352x480 no blue line)

Dave, G8GKQ

[g8lce]

Well done Dave.
Now for the rest of us to follow......

Martin G8LCE

[G8GKQ]

I've just seen it on a second pass (1642 to 1645 UTC) as well. It's a strong signal - here is the spectrum on BandViewer (note that my IF is 731 MHz)

Dave G8GKQ

[G4IMO-TV]

Congratulations Dave. You were getting better results than me I could only manage MER 8.9 on the second pass. The first pass was a failure so nothing to report.
Dish - 1m Prime Focus Mesh, LNA TQP3M9073 Ali Exp, Minitiouner for receive. Only 2 mins receive 16:43 to 16:45, MER 8.9, C/S HAMTV, Black Screen.
Photo won't upload as file too big so I will put it on my Bluesky page.

Nick
G4IMO