Amateur Television/ATV is the transmission of broadcast quality video and audio over the wide range of frequencies of radio waves allocated for FCC Licensed Amateur Radio. Amateur Television is used for:
Non-Commercial Technology Experimentation,
Home Entertainment,
Public Service Events.
Historically, Amateur Television stations were on the air in many cities before commercial television stations came on the air. Various transmission standards are used, these include the broadcast transmission standards, as in:
NTSC,
PAL,
SECAM.
Utilizing the full refresh rates of those standards.
Amateur Television provides Amateur Radio Operators with electronic technology to research advance methods for ttransmissionand receiving of television frequencies, and the ability to research in radio spectrum propagations of signals and RF wave between transmitting and receiving stations.
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