TVMAX 3000+ 4W UHF TV TRANSMITTER

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TVMAX 3000+ 4W UHF TV TRANSMITTER

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FINALLY A LOW POWER UHF TV TRANSMITTER FROM PCS!

Many of you have been asking for this for a long time. And now it is finally here! A 4W VHF TV transmitter is your ticket into the world of TV. Build your own TV studio and broadcast your own TV program! Transmit movies from your PC to your living room, re-transmit the TV program you've never been able to receive in your valley, run a college TV station, cover rural areas of Africa with TV signal from satellite stations, run a hotel cable system info pages or just have fun... this unit will keep you busy during the cold winter evenings and is sure to provide lots of fun for many months to come!


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Manual is here:
http://www.pcs-electronics.com/software ... 000_en.pdf

Product listing:
http://www.pcs-electronics.com/tvmax-30 ... -1325.html


General features:
Technical specifications:
- Supports PAL/SECAM/NTSC (all world standards)
- Supports all sound standards (4.5-6.5MHz, adjustable)
- Output power: 4000mW typ (varies 2500-6000mW depending on channel.), adjustable from 0 to max via LCD
- Audio connectors: RCA (cinch)
- Audio level: 1Vpp
- Video level: 1Vpp
- Audio input impedance: 10K resistive, unbalanced
- Pre-emphasis 50 or 75usec (adjustable with a jumper, installed jumper = 75uS)
- EU TV Channels: channel 21 to channel 69 (EU),
- USA TV Channels: channel 14 to 69
- Above channel 35 (EU and USA) output power starts dropping and is low at channel 69, we do not guarantee performance above channel 35.
- HAM TV Channels: 421.25, 426.25, 427.25, 434.00, 434.125, 434.25, 434.375, 439.25 and 444.25MHz
- Warning: Output is tuned for best performance in low end of UHF band, may require retuning for higher part of UHF band!
- Output impedance 50 Unbalanced, VSWR less than 2:1 for full output
- Output connector BNC female ( rear panel )
- RF Spurious > -50 dBc @ +- 10MHz min. out of carrier
- RF Harmonics > -50 dBc Standard
- Modulation type: DSB, occupies close to 2x the standard TV channel space, add notch filter for full compliance
- Monitoring Led: Power on
- Harmonic distortion ( THD ) <0,1% typ
- Stereo Channel Separation 25 dB min 20Hz to 15kHz (USA)
- Voltage power supply DC 15V/3A
- Built-in CPU for controlling and monitoring
- Easy changing of frequency (UP/DOWN keys) and other parameters
- Stereo sound possible (with plug-in board for USA or extra board for other countries)
- Friendly user interface
- Cost effectiveness
- Standard 19" rack 1HE high
- External rack dimensions ( W x D x H ) 19" x depth (170mm) x height 1HE (44mm)
- Weight rack 2.5kg, board 0.32kg
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Extended channels support!

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TVMAX 3000+ specifications update:

We have extended number of supported channels:

- EU TV Channels: channel 21 to channel 34 (EU),
- USA TV Channels: channel 14 to 36
- USA HAM ATV Channels: 421.25, 426.25, 427.25, 434.00 and 439.25

Have fun, guys :)
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Post by Walterapaga »

Hi Marko,

I have purchased your TV max 3000 tested it but i can not change to NTSC, when i changed the TV satndard it say B/G and L i guess it configures to PAL, how can i change it to NTSC? i tried all the buttons in the TV standard menu but i can not change to NTSC. Need your big help.

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When i press the to the menu TV standard, systen is in BG and L only i can not find NTSC. In the Main menu it read "
TV Max 3000+
PAL channel 24 4.5 MHz"

The firmware is TVM3K+ v1.3 6/09

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Added new HAM TV frequencies, these are now supported:
- HAM TV Channels: 421.25, 426.25, 427.25, 434.00, 434.20, 434.25, 434.30 and 439.25

The correct setting for NTSC is system BG. We have changed latest firmware so there
are now different selections, not system BG and system L as before but instead
NTSC/PAL and SECAM. It is now much less confusing for the user.


Request for NTSC setting was handled via e-mail, forgot to reply to a post here as well, sorry.
You should set it to System BG. And sound carrier I believe is 4.5MHz for NTSC.
For PAL set sound carrier to 5.5MHz.

All changes effective immediately and are incorporated today.
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Added more channels

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Added ham channel 444.25MHz.

Expanded firmware to all UHF channels from 21 to 69
Output power is much lower at the top of the band.
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UHF TV update

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Fixed problem with two ham channels, they are now all working well.
Latest firmware is 1.7
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BIG and MAJOR update of the manual.

We have also changed the format of the manual itself.

Any feedback will be extremely valuable, please let us know how you like it.

Note we have also added new VHF TV omni-directional antenna!

Also added TV MAX for low VHF range and low power no-tune UHF version.
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One of the HAM ATV (radioamateur television) channels was programmed wrong,
fixed that in firmware.
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Re: UHF TV update

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have purchased your TV max 3000 +4 watts tested it but i can not change to NTSC, when i changed the TV satndard it say B/G and L configures to PAL, how can i change it to NTSC? i tried all the buttons in the TV standard menu but i can not change to NTSC. Need your big help.
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Post by pcs »

Set it to B/G and make sure you have your video source set to NTSC and it will work.

B/G is for PAL and NTSC.

L is for Secam.


However if your video source is PAL it will not be possible to transmit NTSC,
the transmitter cannot convert from one standard to the other.
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Post by ibroze »

Where can I download the firmware for the TV max 3000+
The device's firmware TVM3K + v1.1 7/08
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You can't download firmware.

Also it would not bring you any new features if you could.
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