[Elecraft] Slow-scan TV (SSTV) display on the P3 and PX3?

[Fred Jensen]

Just offering observations in answer to Wayne's questions.  SSTV is not 
one of the modes I use.  Neither is EME, PSK31, and DXCC on 1.2 GHz.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org

On 8/17/2014 7:44 AM, george fritkin wrote:
> I will say it one more time.........there are more hams trying for DXCC
> on 1.2GHZ than operate SSTV
> George, W6GF
>
>
> On Sunday, August 17, 2014 6:01 AM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 8/15/2014 2:56 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > Is SSTV demodulation/display something we should add to the long term
>  > wish-list for our panadapters? I hear SSTV signals in the 20-meter
>  > SSB segment pretty regularly, and I think it would be nice to
>  > eavesdrop on the visuals, in living color, with all the HF-induced
>  > idiosyncrasies. But we won't bother with this if I'm the only one
>  > who's interested.
>
> You might try MMSSTV or MixW and just monitor 14230 for awhile before
> putting any engineering effort into it.  I let MixW run on 14230 all one
> weekend and then went back and looked at some of the images [MixW saves
> all received images].  A surprising number [like half] were unanswered
> CQ's with pictures of scantily clad women.  I haven't checked it in a
> number of years.
>
> There are some digital SSTV signals starting around 14233 or so ... I
> don't know anything about them.
>  >
>  > If we did consider adding SSTV, we'd need to decide which SSTV
>  > format(s) to support. If there's just one that's reasonably
>  > universal, great. I'm pretty sure we'd start with just one, given
>  > limited engineering time.
>
> There's a half dozen or more analog modes, most of what I decoded was
> one of the Scottie's [there are several].  I suspect that, to be
> attractive, your software would need to decode the digital burst at the
> beginning and auto-select the mode like MixW does.
>
> We all get to use whatever modes we want ... personally, I was bored by
> SSTV and haven't looked at it in years.  YMMV however.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
> - www.cqp.org