I'm Back! Its a Portsdown 4

 Well,

After a long time doing other things, I'm back into the radio hobby after quite a spell away.

I have a new "shack" at the house, which is shared by quite a few of my aquatic chums (I keep fish), but its a good space and I'm enjoying it.

I'm slowley getting things back together....

I've just started construction of the BATC Portsdown 4, its a Raspberry Pi4 based DATV transciever.

Currently I have a Pi4, a 7" touchscreen, a Logitec WebCam and a LimeSDR mini (the last bit I found in the attic). So far so good.

The RX side is currently a new BATC project called the PicoTuner:

So called, because its based on a Raspberry Pi Pico. This receiver is running with some software called 

Open Tuner by ZR6TG. This PC based software will work with the Pico tuner and so far I have sent a Test Card from one end of the bench to the other using bits of wet noodle as antennas.

So, this feels like a good start.

I'd like to try and get some DATV on 146.5MHz and I have an amplifier for this purpose somewhere.... I will also install a dish to initially RX QO-100.

More to come!