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Welcome

to the official WEB site of the Narrow-bandwidth Television Association devoted to all aspects of early television. Members' interests include:

- Historical interest in the origins of early television.

- Restoration of original equipment.

- Construction of replica mechanical television apparatus

- Conventional electronic circuit design and construction

- Personal Computers and software associated with the display and production of low definition television.

Regards, Chris Lewis, NBTVA Webmaster.

Contact

The Association

PRESIDENT: Malcolm Baird

PRINCIPAL OFFICERS


Vice chairman & publicity :
Jeremy JAGO, 1 Lucknow Ave, Mapperley Park, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 5AZ

Treasurer :
David GENTLE, 1 Sunny Hill, MILFORD, Derbyshire, DE56 0QR

Webmaster :
Chris LEWIS. 2 Crosswood Close, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 4BP

NBTV on the air

There is an NBTV Net in operation on the 80m Amateur band. Listen around 3.7 MHz at 08:00 - 08:30 British Time on Saturday mornings for the characteristic NBTV sound.

Note that in Summer, "British Time" is GMT plus 1 hour

 

Counter reset January '07

Links to other WEB pages:

Image Communications Handbook site

Electronics Tutorial

Click here

This site shows how to reproduce a NBTV version of test card 'F' on a simple CD player using a WAV file and a spinning disk. Well worth a visit. Click here

Peter Yanczer....has a home page devoted to mechanical television.