Yes I agree with Gene, Elmer's wanted! I would read any tutorials, specific to this AO-51 event. I was able to grab some of Richard Garriotts, ISS, TV transmissions on my Yaesu VX7R HT with a Panasonic Digital Voice Recorder, plugged into my mic's head phone jack, using my dual band hand held Arrow antenna and then play that into, the computer SSTV program on my desktop computer, back in the shack. (QTH is in a radio hole, I must go remote and have no laptop, I think I have a link to those pics on my QRZ)
I would love it, if someone could explain how I might; (1) convert a digital picture into the SSTV sound format, so I can put it on my digital voice recorder (I can do this from my shack before a pass) and then a better way to get that data, into the transmit side of my VX7R radio, outside of playing the sound file into the HT mic. I may have to break down and get a net book or lap top, dedicated for this purpose but if there is a more minimalist approach, I would love to consider it.
Furthermore, as a CERT Communications team member, I would like to be able to transmit a SSTV pic from a remote site, with the absolute minimum of equipment needed. As a rule, right now, I always have, in my car; an Emergency CERT backpack, an HT HAM radio with battery charger, a directional antenna and others, a digital camera and a digital voice recorder, what other, minimum, pieces of the puzzle do I need, to transmit SSTV, remotely and how do they fit together? Just typing this email, has caused me to realize, I need to burn a SSTV program onto a disc and put that in my CERT bag too, so even if I dont have a laptop, in an emergency, if/when I can get to a computer, I can install the SSTV program, to view/create/send SSTV, remote. (feel free to respond here if appropriate or directly to [email protected] if you have some wisdom and the desire to share it)
Rich KI6RRQ
Message: 11 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:17:18 -0400 From: WB2LLP [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] Slow Scan To: AMSAT -BB [email protected] Message-ID: 393BE64D02154B49A334B0BCD863CF57@gene Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
AO-51's handlers are doing a very nice job of presenting us with several different satellite modes. This week it is an opportunity to try Slow Scan TV. Now it would be very nice if someone from the Slow Scan community would tell us how to receive the pictures and once we have done that, how do we send a picture. We only have a week to play with something which is very different for some of us, so let us not waste any time.
TNX es 73 de WB2LLP Gene
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