SSTV Handbook
SuitSAT Version!
A Guide for assembling and operating an image from SuitSATV
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This is a special webpage addition to help you copy SUITSAT as noted in the latest issue of The AMSAT Journal, NOV/DEC 2005, page 23 ff.
It will consist of 3 sections:
SSTV using Robot 36 mode
Free Software for your PC
Connecting a radio to your PC for receiving images
Practicing receiving an SSTV image in Robot 36 Mode
A 2 Meter Patch Antenna and Mounts for SuitSAT
You gotta see this to believe it! A Styrofoam Satellite Antenna
5 quickie mounts for your Styrofoam Patch. PVC to the rescue!
Receiving Amateur Satellites and capturing the SuitSAT images
Tracking programs tell when and where to look.
PREPARE!!!!!
Recording what you hear and see.
Stay tuned; I'll be adding the details very quickly so you can get going. Building everything should not take more than a couple of days at the most.
You Can be on SSTV in 1 Hour with 3 Easy Steps
INTRODUCTION
At least 90% of amateur radio operators should have SSTV capability.
Hams are communicators: visual along with auditory communications are natural!
Typical minimum ham QSO interchange is: CQ, Name, QTH, Rig, Antenna, Wx., 73. Show it.
Minimum Set of Pictures: CQ, Operator, QTH, Rig, Antennas, 73
Supplemental Set of Pictures: Family, Hobbies, Scenery, ---Whatever makes you a neat contact.
OPERATING SSTV
Receiving your first SSTV picture.
Transmitting your first SSTV picture
Storing your SSTV Pictures
PROBLEMS & CURES
Receive
Transmit
FREQUENCIES
SSTV on HF
SSTV on VHF/HF
SSTV on Satellites
- Sample Pictures
SSTV & THE INTERNET
FUTURE EXPERIMENTS
APPENDICES
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