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Re: [KX3] Slow-scan TV (SSTV) display on the P3 and PX3?

Sorry to see yo miss out on a fun mode

SSTV is a fun mode

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58 years here and not interested in SSTV.
73,
Troy

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From: Wes (N7WS)
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 11:52 AM
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56 year here. Same level of interest.

On 8/15/2014 9:19 PM, Ken G Kopp wrote:
> In 58 years on the air, I've never known anyone who was/is active on
> SSTV,
> and I have no interest ... FWIW. (;-)
>
> 73
>
> K0PP
>

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Re: Slow-scan TV (SSTV) display on the P3 and PX3?

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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 <[hidden email]> 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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Re: 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
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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 <[hidden email]> 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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NK7Z

Re: Slow-scan TV (SSTV) display on the P3 and PX3?

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I also would like this... :) I bet it will sell radios!
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On Sat, 2014-08-16 at 15:31 -0700, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote:

> I would love to see this
>
> as a Long time SSTV Fan this is a very nice feature
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: David G4DMP <[hidden email]>
> To: Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]>
> Cc: [hidden email]
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 2:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Slow-scan TV (SSTV) display on the P3 and PX3?
>
>
> That is really good news :-)
>
> 73 de David G4DMP
>
> In a recent message, Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]> writes
> >In the works as we speak.
> >
> >Wayne
>

David Heinsohn

Re: Slow-scan TV (SSTV) display on the P3 and PX3?

In reply to this post by k6dgw

While I'd rather have an XV900 and XV1200, SSTV that was easy to use
would be nice too. I've already been lamb blasted by the list for
suggesting that Wayne and company broaden the XV series. For some folks
if it's not about cw/ssb on HF, Wayne should not waste his time. For
others of us trying new freq's and modes is part of the fun.

Wayne, if it interests you, go for it!!!!! If you offer it at least
some of us will buy it!

de
David
Who only owns:
K2 (full house), KX3, XV50, 144,220,432, K1 (unbuilt), and all the
mini's and test equipment Elecraft makes

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Joe Subich, W4TV-4

Re: Slow-scan TV (SSTV) display on the P3 and PX3?

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I doubt it unless the K3 is modified to accept computer graphics files
and generate the SSTV audio. There is a big difference between CW,
RTTY and PSK31 decode when one can transmit paddle CW/RTTY/PSK and
SSTV decode when there is no matching SSTV generation capability.

There are a lot more UI and control improvements (separate VOX for SSB
and digital, separate default bandwidth for DATA A and AFSK A/FSK D,
ability to set a default "Norm" bandwidth for each mode other than the
roofing filter bandwidth, etc.) as well as improvements to the notch
(place manual notch outside the AGC loop) and noise blanker.

73,

... Joe, W4TV

On 2014-08-17 12:56 PM, David Cole wrote:
> I also would like this... :) I bet it will sell radios!
>
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Re: Slow-scan TV (SSTV) display on the P3 and PX3?

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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" <[hidden email]>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[hidden email]>
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 <[hidden email]>
>> 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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Wes (N7WS)

Re: Slow-scan TV (SSTV) display on the P3 and PX3?

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Yes. And if one of my pet peeves, lousy memory management, was addressed some
of these features could simply be memorized and recalled.

Wes N7WS

On 8/17/2014 10:30 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:

>
> [snip]
>
> There are a lot more UI and control improvements (separate VOX for SSB
> and digital, separate default bandwidth for DATA A and AFSK A/FSK D,
> ability to set a default "Norm" bandwidth for each mode other than the
> roofing filter bandwidth, etc.) as well as improvements to the notch
> (place manual notch outside the AGC loop) and noise blanker.
>
> 73,
>
> ... Joe, W4TV
>