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

[Charlie T, K3ICH]

Oh, you gotta try DXCC on 1.2GHz.

It the cat's meow and the bee's knees all rolled into one.

73, Chas


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Jensen" <k6dgw at foothill.net>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2014 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Slow-scan TV (SSTV) display on the P3 and PX3?


> 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
>
>
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