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Dear OM's,
This ist my first message on the list, I hope I am using the right procedure!

This message is to draw your attention to a session dedicated to ATV-Repeaters at HAMRADIO-2014 in Friedrichshafen/Germany which will take place on Friday, 27th of June 2014 between12:00 and 15:45 in the room "Oesterreich" of the Convention Center.
There will be presentations of ATV-Reapeaters in Austria, France, Germany and Switzerland followed by a round table wiht the participation of the speakers.

This will be a unique opportunity to share experiences and identiy future trends in the area of ATV-Repeaters.

The session will be held in German, French and English!

You will find the details of the session under the following link:
http://www.hamradio-friedrichshafen.de/ ... =168&lg=de

We hope to see you in Friedrishafen end of June!

For the organization committee,

Pierre-André/HB9AZN
President of ARALD (see www.hb9tv.ch)

I attended HAMRADIO2014 on behalf of the BATC and UK ATV community - it was a very good event (the largest in Europe).

The ATV conference session was very interesting with several presentations from Germany, Austria, Swiss and French groups and a lot of interesting discussion particularly around digital and the impact of Galileo on 23cms.

The Austrian paper being presented to the IARU region 1 conference in September to block DATV operation on 70cms was also discussed and BATC will be working with RSGB to oppose it.

I gave an overview of the UK ATV scene and the presentation is available for download here: http://www.batc.org.uk/Getting_Started/Hamradio2014.pdf.

Fascinating read Noel, makes it very clear just how difficult it really is to maintain a ATV presence within the extremely protected MOD sector bands, and it isn't going to get any easier.