Avateq, a privately owned company headquartered in Canada, was founded in 2009 and operates with approximately 10 employees. The company specializes in telecommunications, offering a line of products that includes signal analyzers and monitoring systems for digital TV and radio, as well as satellite analyzers equipped with Carrier ID decoding and interference detection capabilities.
Avateq released Firmware 17419 for its AVQ200 and AVQ1020 (OXU4) products on September 28, 2026, adding system-level debug logging, automated crash reports, and a redesigned MER per Partition and Averaging plot for HD Radio. The company noted that this release is the final firmware for the OXU4 controller board, which has reached End-of-Life. Previously, on September 18, Avateq published insights on what to consider for an ATSC 3.0 RF Analyzer, detailing how to transition from ATSC 1.0 maintenance practices involving 8-VSB carrier, forward power, SNR, MER, and emission mask checks. Earlier, on August 28, the company discussed key metrics for broadcast engineers to monitor transmitter signal quality, highlighting four critical numbers that can indicate failure even if a transmitter operates at full power without alarms. On August 13, Avateq explored the Broadcast Positioning System as a GPS backup built on TV signals, addressing the fragility of GPS as a critical infrastructure timing backbone. This followed a July 31 article from Avateq discussing the importance of remote RF monitoring solutions for broadcast transmitters to prevent site degradation.
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