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Documentary Videos

The Dayton Collection 2009

The Documentary side of our Hamvention® coverage is another Jeff & Gary TOUR, with footage shot in both 2008 and 2009. We poke our noses (microphones and camera) into everything that's going on at the world's largest hamfest. Part of a three DVD set - each DVD is $15.

Come see Dayton our way. Details and a free preview video HERE.
(Dayton 2010 DVDs are in production)

Digital Voice
for Amateur Radio

Digital Voice isn't just the future – it's here! This program covers HF and VHF/UHF modes of digital voice systems, including AOR, WinDRM and FDMDV on HF, and D-STAR and P-25 on VHF/UHF. $20

more info / free preview / QST Review / order the DVD

ARDF USA
"Fox Hunt" Championship

ARDF - Amateur Radio Direction Finding - is European style on-foot fox hunting. This program documents one of the USA Championship events. It features the techniques, equipment operation and people. You may want to try it, or you may not, but it's fun to watch and learn! $15

more info / free preview / order the DVD

Amateur Radio on the
International Space Station

This DVD documents a contact between the Space Station and schools in Maryland, North Carolina and Quito, Ecuador in November 2008. The entire video is available here (courtesy of YouTube). The DVD has bonus footage of a 1992 SAREX contact. $10

more info / watch the video / order the DVD

The Last BIG Field Day

Coming in 2010: for decades, the call sign W3AO has been in just about every Field Day log as the Columbia ARC/PVRC rises head and shoulders above every other Field Day operation. 2004, though, was the last year they claimed the category 51A. How do they do it? And why is their station count now in the low 20's? Stay tuned.....

The ARVN Archives

Out of date, out of mind, out of production (but we'll make one for you if you insist....). Click here to open the vault.

Forum and Seminar Videos

DCC
2009

ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference

This is our second year covering the DCC, and once again we fill six DVDs with technical presentations from this three-day event. Topics include equipment design and construction, Software Designed Radio, AMSAT / ARISSat, Packet and D-STAR networking, advanced APRS, and Digital ATV.

Details and a free preview video HERE.

And find the 2008 DCC Collection HERE.

The Dayton Collection 2009

Most of our coverage at the 2009 Hamvention® comes from the Forums. This year we capture all of the ARRL and FCC Forums, the TAPR Forum, the Software Defined Radio Forum and the D-STAR Forum and Friday Night Event. These programs are spread across three DVDs. Each DVD is $15.

Details and a preview video HERE.

Standing Up
for Standing Waves

Understand SWR better than you ever have by "seeing" it, revealed by a set of lights on a transmission line. This is a seminar video featuring Bill Hays. $10

more info / free preview / order the DVD

D-STAR User Seminar

A seminar for new D-STAR users, explaining how to program callsigns and use the Gateway, plus more tips and operating information. Bonus: D-STAR Radio Programming with KN4AQ. $8

more info / free preview / order the DVD

D-STAR Radio Programming

ARVN's KN4AQ takes to YouTube to present a free tutorial on call sign programming for D-STAR radios. The program concentrates on ICOM's 2820, 92AD and ID-800 radios, but the techniques are similar for other radios. The ID-880's "DR" mode, though, is a different animal. FREE (also included on the D-STAR User Seminar DVD)

watch it here

Customer Comments	Reviews and unsolicited testimonials from actual customers, just like on TV
	ARVN on the RAIN Report: Hap Holly interviews ARVN's KN4AQ. This is a two-part interview. You can download the mp3's from these links: PART 1 PART 2 In the RAIN ARCHIVE, you'll find them at 11-21-2009 and 11-27-2009
Make me a copy of that...?	What to say when someone asks you to burn them a copy of an ARVN video, and other thoughts about this little business.
O therStuff	Visit here for some QST articles, a Christmas poem (!) and non-ARVN video,all from ARVN's prolific KN4AQ.

Will ARVN DVDs
play on my
computer?

ARVN: Amateur Radio//Video news

and can I
stream or
download ARVN
programs?

Yes, but...

ARVN DVDs are "DVD Movies" - that is, they are the same as the "Hollywood" movies you rent from Blockbuster or Netflix. They should play in a standard DVD player hooked up to your TV just fine (but note that they are in the American NTSC format, so hams in PAL or SECAM areas will need "multistandard" monitors, or computers, to play them. ARVN DVDs do not have regional restrictions).

They should also play in computers that have a DVD drive (and this is worldwide, not just in the USA), but there is one hitch. The computer needs the proper CODECs - MPEG2 for video, and Dolby Digital AC3 for audio. Most PCs that came with a DVD drive have the codecs installed, but some don't. The Windows operating system (and Windows Media Player) do not have the codecs as a standard feature.

If you need a codec, you can find them on the web, probably for free. Google "MPEG2 codec" and "Dolby Digital AC3 decoder "(look for "AC3Filter") and you'll see a variety of sources.

If Hollywood DVDs do work, but an ARVN DVD doesn't, I'll replace it. Sometimes a DVD player just doesn't like one DVD, but it's happy to play another.

If you've tried everything and can't get the DVDs to play, I'll give you a refund. We'll both be sad, because you really wanted to see the program, not just get your money back. So I'll try to make that happen.

One more thing: Streaming/downloading. OK, that's two things. ARVN is not set up for that yet. I'd like to do a "pay per view" or paid download. I just haven't had time to figure out how. If you are aware of a service that handles that, point me to it! Keep in mind, though, that the phsycal media and postage for sending DVDs isn't a big part of the cost of the program. The production costs are the big nut, and the audience isn't in the millions to spread it around! So a pay-per-view deal might not be that much cheaper (though maybe that would help us reach MUCH bigger numbers and reduce "cost per"). What to you think?.