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Posted: **Mon Jun 01, 2015 11:34 am**

A prize of a £50 Amazon Voucher will be awarded to both the transmitting and receiving stations of the longest distance RB-TV contact made during the time period of the IARU International ATV Contest on 13/14 June. To be valid for entry in the prize competition, the following rules apply:

1. The transmission must take place in an allocated amateur band above 70 MHz and must be in accordance with the RSGB Bandplan.

2. Only contacts made using DVB-S or DVB-S2 transmission modes occupying bandwidths of less than 800 KHz will be valid.

3. Transmissions must not cause undue interference to other spectrum users.

4. A valid contact will include the transmission and successful reception of a 4 digit code sent by video only. A report on the transmission must be returned to the transmitting station by means of amateur radio.

5. The contact must take place after 1200 UTC on 13 Jun 2015 and before 1800 UTC on 14 June 2015.

6. The contact may be one-way or 2-way

7. At least one of the stations must be operating from the UK.

8. At least one of the stations must be a BATC member.

9. Entries must be submitted to [url]mailto: contests@batc.org.uk[/url] using the special RB-TV spreadsheet http://www.batc.org.uk/contests/Sumerfu ... urcall.xls for 70 MHz and 146 MHz and on the IARU Contest Spreadsheet http://www.batc.org.uk/contests/ATV_con ... YYMMDD.xls for other bands. Please add RB-TV in the Comments column. Both spreadsheets are available for download from the BATC Website. Please log all RB-TV contacts on the spreadsheet and provide photos if possible – we need to publicize this activity.

10. In the event of a dispute, the decision of the BATC Committee will be final.

Please contact me if you have any pre-contest questions.

Dave
G8GKQ
BATC Contest Manager

Posted: **Thu Jul 16, 2015 5:34 am**

A great success!

Here are the results for the BATC SummerFun RB-TV Prize Contest:

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146 MHz
Pos           Call           Points       Best DX       QTH            Dist

 1            M0DTS/P (2)    272          G1LPS/P       IO85XF         116
 2            G1LPS/P        232          M0DTS/P       IO94MJ         116
 3            G4CPE          109          G8GTZ/P       IO91GI         95
 4=           M0DTS/P (1)    102          G1LPS         IO94DF         51
 4=           G1LPS          102          M0DTS/P       IO94EQ         51
 6            G8GTZ/P        95           G4CPE         IO91SW         95

There were no entries for 70 MHz, and only one reported RB-TV contact on 70 cms (which was less than 116 km).

Congratulations to Rob and Terry who win the £50 Amazon Vouchers (to be presented at Finningley on 5/6 September?) and thanks to all those who supported this effort.

Dave
G8GKQ
BATC Contest Manager

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