[W8MWA] SSTV try out

[Joshua Smith]

I got the signalink USB interface between my Mac and radio working and Jake and I were able to do some more testing. With great success on 2 meters. 440 was still mostly a no go as the signals were too weak. 

I'll try to get the images I received from jake up on the net somewhere sometime this evening. 


Thanks,
--
Josh Smith
KD8HRX

Email/jabber: juicewvu at gmail.com
Phone: 304.237.9369(c)

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 26, 2012, at 9:53 PM, Joshua Smith <juicewvu at gmail.com> wrote:

> It was lots of fun. Part of our bad results were because I was using the speaker on my iPhone to receive the pictures. After we quit playing around I took a few minutes and have my signalink USB connected to my radio. Hopefully we can give it another shot soon with better results.
> 
> I messed up and did not save the images or I would post them Somewhere for everyone to see. 
> 
> 73,
> 
> --
> Josh Smith
> KD8HRX
> 
> Email/jabber: juicewvu at gmail.com
> Phone: 304.237.9369(c)
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jun 26, 2012, at 9:36 PM, Jacob Tennant <wf8s at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Well tonight Josh and I tried out the SSTV idea with mixed results.
>> 
>> We were sending full color pictures in Martin2 mode since the entire transmit time is only 59 seconds per picture.
>> 
>> On 446.500Mhz we could hear each other but it was marginal. Be it that we were both running barefoot (20watts) and we both live in a valley it was better than I had expected.
>> 
>> For the heck of it we switched to 146.580Mhz running barefoot again (50watts) and it was solid copy!
>> 
>> So now that we have a baseline to work with lets see what we can do from here!?!?!? I got a 100watt amp for 70cm and I am not afraid to use it!!!
>> 
>> Jake - WF8S
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