Test Card

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Re: Test Card

Post by radiogareth » Fri Aug 30, 2019 1:29 pm

I'm in a RF hole in Bromley but can go mobile to nearby hills if they have a LOS to Rochester. One in particular looks over London and may go easterly enough. Lots of gain this end.
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Re: Test Card

Post by G4HTZ » Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:56 am

Interested to see there is some interest in atv growing again in Kent area ...I've got gear for 5.6ghz ..only low power at moment .also got 50w of 437mhz DATV available into a 18 ele beam .
Doesn't take long to set up 70cms ...normally stored in a box due to lack of activity around here .
Steve G4HTZ JO01JN
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ASHEN nr Sudbury JO02GB52 90m ASL

70cms DATV portsdown 4 + RYDE rx …14 or 18 ele yagi …LNA …hopefully 100w amp at some point

radiogareth
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Re: Test Card

Post by radiogareth » Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:31 am

By Next spring I should have DATV power on 70 (Nokia Dolphin amp and build a beam). And on 4M - 9cms :-)
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Re: Test Card

Post by G4NRT » Sun Sep 01, 2019 4:29 pm

g8gtz wrote:
Thu Aug 29, 2019 2:08 pm
Or better still connect it to the composite video out of your Portsdown Raspberry Pi and you can use the Portsdown test cards:

https://wiki.batc.org.uk/Analog_Video_Output
Is it possible to capture the analog video out from the Portsdown so I could store the test card on, say, an SD Card?

David

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Re: Test Card

Post by G4NRT » Sun Sep 01, 2019 4:37 pm

Actually, I have just found a rather nice little free app in the Mac OSX App Store. It is called TestCard and is dead easy to use with export available as PNG. It will certainly do me for my 5.6ghz testing.

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