Slow Scan Television
Example
SSTV Images Received
Slow scan television pictures, fax, rtty, and cw can be received and sent at
this station with a commercially made product available from Venus
Electronics which, together with suitable software and
computer enable very good results on this fascinating mode. With very basic
circuitry and minimal components it is easy to build a simple interface as a
homebrew project.
SSTV images are produced with either my Nikon
F50 or, increasingly, my Fuji
MX-2700 digital camera. I can also utilize a Black
Widow flat-bed colour scanner for reproducing
photographs or other material such as text. It is possible to convert images to
the appropriate format for showing on sstv with a suitable image manipulation
programme such as Paint
Shop Pro or Microsoft
Picture It.
Kodak and Jessop`s
provide a service which enables conversion of 35mm images for use in sstv
following processing onto CD ROM or floppy disks. Like many others new to sstv I
started by getting images off low priced cd`s and used these as a basis for my
SSTV operating. Whilst I still get great pleasure from seeing images from this
source it is nice to produce original work whenever possible.
