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Updated 7/20/2007

News- 12/17/03 A LOSS TO HAM RADIO ATV: Loyce (Kip) Turner ( W4KIP) passed away on December 17, 2003. Kip had brain surgery in September and passed away due to complications from that. Kip was an inventor, an engineer and a close friend to all ATVers. Kip was the inventor of the "Hawg Fence" antenna that allowed newcomers to have a reasonably high gain for less than 5 dollars.

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News- 11/16/02 Another great work party was held. We got the combiners installed, and we are now back on the top high-gain antenna fed through our 2 1/4" feedline. Hopefully at our next work party we will strip off all the old crummy aluminum CATV hard line that we've been trying to get rid of for years. W4KIP has benchmarked the new installation over what we had, and documented a 4 dB increase in strength! Thanks Lin, Tommy, and everyone else. All that's left to do is route 147.345 through the combiners and connect its new antenna. We hope the weather holds, but it looks doubtful.

News- 11/2/02 Thank you Tommy KD4DKW !!! Tommy purchased and donated a new Diamond 718L vertical for the ATV repeater. We originally had one of these, but it was damaged by wind or lightning and we have been operating for several years on a homemade antenna a former group member made. It worked horribly, and now we'll be able to regain our original signal strength.

News- 9/8/02 A great work party was held. Lin (N4YCI) began preliminary work installing the combiner we plan to use to get rid of crummy feedlines. We'll be using our 2 1/4" hardline for the 900 Mhz antenna as well as the ATV Transmit and 147.345 repeater.

News- 8/24/02 The NASA video link has been completely redone. It is still downlinked via satellite, but we have eliminated one radio hop, thereby increasing the picture quality.

News- 8/25/02: BSRG is proud to announce that the BSRG 427.25 Amateur Television Repeater in Atlanta is now back under its umbrella. Managed for the last few years by the now defunct AATV Group, its now back home with its original owners. We're sorry that the AATN thing didn't work out- but there were several situations that led to a parting of the ways. We wish whoever is left of that group a lot of luck in whatever they decide to do and as always EVERYONE is welcome on the Big Shanty 427.25 ATV repeater! Its operation has not changed a bit, and we plan a lot of improvements. If you are interested in helping, please let us know!

News-8/25/02: An AATN Board meeting was held Saturday, May 11 2002. As a result of this meeting, the current AATN group was dissolved, and the ATV repeater turned back to the BSRG, the original owners. For more information on this, and of the past, present and future of the organization, click here.

News- 5/1/02: ***NOTICE TO ATLANTA ATV BOARD MEMEBRS*** An AATN Board meeting will be held Saturday, May 11 2002. The meeting will be held at 12:00 Noon at Bucky's Bar B Que at the intersection of Sandy Plains and Scufflegrit Roads in NE Cobb County. This meeting is open only to Board members plus one predesignated outside observer. A report of this meeting will be posted on this web page sometime after the meeting.

How do you receive our ATV repeater's transmissions? Look here!

Here's an antenna you can build that will do the job. "Hawg Fence" See the construction instructions below.

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Local Atlanta area ATV systems

Complete with computer calculated coverage diagrams!

The N4NEQ Atlanta ATV Repeater located in NorthEast Cobb County

The W4ZTL ATV Repeater located in Downtown Atlanta

Photos and stuff

Mugshots of some past and present local ATV users. "Mug Shots"

See pictures of some local Atlanta ATV users

Atlanta is the home of the "Hawg Fence" $3.00 11 db gain ATV antenna designed by "Kip", W4KIP.

Here are the step-by-step destructions...ah... er... "instructions" for making a Hog Fence Antenna

Atlanta is also the home of the "Hawg amp","an inexpensive 13 db gain 420-440 MHz preamp for ATV use. This Preamp has a power injector for remote mounting and can be constructed from a kit for $30.00. Hawg Amp Instructions

Other Ham TV Related Web Sites:

Our ATN friends in California have many nice ATV repeaters and have are well known for their linking activities.
Please visit the California ATN web pages, too!

Huntsville, AL Amateur Television

Arizona Amateurs on TV

Baltimore Radio Amateur Television Society (B R A T S)

HATS: The Houston Amateur Television Society

Tallahassee National ATV List Server
There is a National list server for those interested in ATV. To add yourself to this list, send e-mail to "atv-request@atv.tallahassee.net". Include in the body of the message the following line: "SUBSCRIBE ATV"
Once joined, to send a message to the mailing list, address the message to "atv@atv.tallahassee.net".


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