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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
April 30, 2004
This week, the topic is ATV and the destination is Utah, which combine to make a very appealing Web site.
ATV is the acronym for Amateur Television, which is fast scan television (the same format used when you watch "The Sopranos" or "The Soupy Sales Show" on your home entertainment center), as opposed to Slow Scan Television, which sports the acronym SSTV.
Googling Web sites for "ATV," I came upon the Utah ATV Home Page. It is full of interesting information, war stories, technical techniques and tidbits on a particular subject that is fun to browse because you never know what a clicked link will turn up.
 Want to see something different on the boob tube tonight? Then try the Utah ATV Home Page for some new television fare. |
For example, click on the "WB9NEQ's ATV Night Flight" link and you can read about W4NEQ's adventures using ATV while flying around in a small airplane at night no less! Click on the "What is this ATV stuff anyway?" link and it turns up two links, one to the Baltimore Radio Amateur Television Association (BRATS) Web site, and the other to the Houston Amateur Television Society (HATS) Web site. Both sites describe how to get your feet wet in ATV with minimal expense (by using the television portion of your home entertainment center).
As expected, there also is a lot of Utah-centric ATV information that is very useful. For example, if you decide to build an ATV repeater, you can read how WB7FID and KA7OEI built theirs. There are also some interesting Utah ATV war stories, like the mountaintop ATV expeditions, high altitude balloon missions and R/C (aeronautical and land-based) operations. Even if ATV is not your cup of tea, I guarantee you will find some interesting reading at this Web site.
Until next time, keep on surfin'
Editor's note:
Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, spends way too much time watching TV, specifically old
movies and the Olde Town Team. If the Red Sox ever win the World Series, then
he might find the time to fix his busted dipole in between airplays of "The
French Connection" and "A Night at the Opera." You can write to Stan about his
problems by sending him e-mail at wa1lou@arrl.net .
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