So I've had this childhood dream of bringing back analog television ever since I was given a Sony Watchman FD20 right after the digital switchover.
Since I just recently became a ham radio operator, I decided to make it a reality. Now I don't have an actual ATV Transmitter, (yet) but I do have a dime a dozen Baofeng UV5R.
Though the voice channel is nowhere near wide enough for a full 6MHz NTSC video signal, I decided to try it anyways.
I went and got my trusty Sanyo VC500/homemade digital recorder to use as a video source, got my UV5R, and started transmitting.
Now most Hams use the 70cm band since cable channel 58 overlaps into it. I unfortunately do not own anything that can pick up cable channel 58, so I went with UHF channel 14 at 471.250 MHz (The video carrier for channel 14). Now I understand that is kinda out of my jurisdiction for a technician level ham, but it overlaps with walkie talkie frequencies, so I think it's still kinda legal (other than the illegal power output.)
So here's the result.
I was using a 10 inch Admiral B&W to pick it up form the over room. Now it was very had to keep the image stable, but I could almost make out the truck at times. The Baofeng's digital modulation is probably what did it in, but this is a better result than I expected.
Do you guys have any tips on how I could modify on the Baofeng to actually make it work?