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Introduction

Slow scan televison is a way of sending video over a voice bandwidth channel--this can make it practical to send video over thousands of miles via ionospheric propagation.  Modern computers have this once rare and expensive mode readily available to the average ham.

Additional information on this subject and related topics can be found in back issues of QST and the following:

The ARRL Handbook For Radio Amateurs

Articles

Note: Some of the following articles are in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. To view and print these files, you'll need a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Reader program. (Version 3.0 or later required). More information here.

• FAX480 and SSTV Interfaces and Software (1,856,609 bytes, PDF file)
  QST July 1998, pp. 32-36
  With free software and about $15 in parts you can operate FAX and SSTV.
• TV on 10 (131,963 bytes, PDF file)
  QST April 2001, pp. 68-71
  Swap pictures on 10 meters around the world.
• Slow-Scan TV - It Isn't Expensive Anymore! (3,502,931 bytes, PDF file)
  QST Jan 1993, pp. 20-30
  Ham stations equipped with an IBM PC-compatible computer now have another use for it - SSTV!
  (A hardware solution)
• Getting Started with Slow Scan Television (360,448 bytes, PDF file)
  QST September 1997, pp. 53-56
  Who says hams should be heard and not seen?
  (A software solution)

Note:

Contact information for suppliers mentioned in the above articles should first be confirmed using TIS Address Database Search.

Web Links

• MM Hamsoft Amateur Radio Freeware
  SSTV using your sound card--MMSSTV Available for download
• Amateur Radio Slow Scan TV
  by Rob Aarssen (VE3RDN)
  There are a lot of small things to learn to be knowledgeable about SSTV but Rome wasn't built in a day as they say. You'll learn as you go like any facet of Ham Radio.
• The SAW-Scan Television program
  from DL4SAW
  The GSHPC SSTV-program, also known as "SAW-SCAN", allows to send and receive color images with a high color resolution. However, the program only requires a very simple interface circuit and offers very good picture quality.
• Product Review
  QST August 2001, p. 61
  Product Review
  QST April 2000, p. 67
  

Bibliography (Members Only)

ARRL Periodicals Index Search - This database contains the QST index from 1915 to the present and the QEX index from 1981 to the present. For QST issues from 1970 to the present, and some selected articles back to 1922 (when construction articles featuring tubes began in earnest), identifying keywords have been added to the technical articles. By entering keywords (ANTENNA) or combinations of keywords (CONSTRUCTION ANTENNA VERTICAL HF) into the Title words: field, you may create dynamic bibliographies.
Technical article KEYWORD list. Hints for more successful searching

Suggested keywords for more articles like the ones on this page are: SSTV

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