Never tried SSTV before, managed to capture a picture from the 20:40 ISS pass over Phoenix AZ today. Solid copy using an Elk Dual Band, Ft-857D and RX-SST software.
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Ed, N7EC
Quoting Ed Cunningham who wrote on Wed 2016-04-13 at 14:16:
Never tried SSTV before, managed to capture a picture from the 20:40 ISS pass over Phoenix AZ today. Solid copy using an Elk Dual Band, Ft-857D and RX-SST software.
(just diving into the reception reports)
Two passes yesterday at reasonable times (not colliding with family life). First pass was one complete image, second one two partial images.
Results and more at
http://idefix.net/~koos/newsitem.cgi/1460578881
http://idefix.net/~koos/newsitem.cgi/1460579489
No problem with the signal: it came in at S9++ on my FT-857
Koos
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:04:21 +0200, Koos van den Hout koos@kzdoos.xs4all.nl wrote:
Quoting Ed Cunningham who wrote on Wed 2016-04-13 at 14:16:
Never tried SSTV before, managed to capture a picture from the 20:40 ISS pass over Phoenix AZ today. Solid copy using an Elk Dual Band, Ft-857D and RX-SST software.
(just diving into the reception reports)
Two passes yesterday at reasonable times (not colliding with family life). First pass was one complete image, second one two partial images.
Adding to the chorus of reports, the strange jaggedness from my first image seems to have sorted itself out, and I managed to obtain a complete image during my second attempt this afternoon.
http://i.imgur.com/cs2cNV2.jpg
Gear is a FUNCube Dongle Pro+ into SDR# on a laptop, fed into MMSSTV, from a VHF/UHF discone.
It's a good thing I decoded this live without any problems, because I forgot to press the record button!
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Ed Cunningham -
J. Boyd (JR2TTS) -
Koos van den Hout