The digitisation of the Melbourne amateur television repeater VK3RTV is continuing to attract international attention with the latest being an article in the Techtalk Bulletin of the Orange County Rad
The digital amateur television VK3RTV on Mt Dandenong east of Melbourne is now operational with inputs on 1250MHz analogue, 10.41GHz analogue and now 1276MHz DVB-S.
A video production of the recent contact by Melbourne's Sherbrooke Community College with the International Space Station is to played on the VK3RTV Digital Amateur TV repeater VK3RTV this Wednesday (
The digitisation of one of the world’s longest running fast-scan amateur television repeaters, VK3RTV on Mt Dandenong east of Melbourne is now fully implemented.
A digital uplink test has been held at the Mt Dandenong site of the ATV repeater VK3RTV with four stations participating – VK3GMZ, VK3KHB, VK3TRX and VK3CH.
With the second test of the digital amateur television from the VK3RTV repeater at Mt Dandenong east of Melbourne again providing to be highly successful, no more tests are planned.
The digital test transmission from Mt Dandenong east of Melbourne today (7 June 2009) went exceedingly well with at least eight stations receiving the VK3RTV repeater signal noise free.
An ambitious project to digitise the VK3RTV amateur television repeater that was established in 1977 to service Melbourne and Geelong, will soon see it on air using DVB-T standard.