Slow Scan TV History
- 1957 - Concept of SSTV formatted by Copthorn Macdonald
- 1958 - Electrostatic
P7 monitor built by Macdonald
- 1958 - SSTV Camera using special Westinghouse 7290
vidicon by Macdonald
- 1960 - FCC Grants a Special Temporary Authorization (STA)
to send SSTVG. Limited to those who Macdonald had given
7290 vidicons
- 1967 - Magnetic Deflection, transistorized P7 monitor -
K7YZZ &
W6MXV
- 1968 -
Flying Spot Scanner for SSTV by W8ZCF, K7YZZ, & WB8DQT
- 1968 - SSTV with standard vidicons, WB8DQT, K7YZZ
- 1968 - FCC makes SSTV legal or advanced class hams.
- 1969 - SSTV
Test Equiptment of Yesteryear, K7YZZ
- 1969 - Sampling
Camera for SSTV by W9NTP
- 1970 - Independent
Sideband SSTV provides simultaneous voice and SSTV by W7FEN (Voice on
lower sideband; SSTV
on upper sideband)
- 1970 - Color
SSTV using Polaroid camera, RGB filters and P7 monitors - WB8DQT, W2DD
- 1970 - 1st commercial SSTV system with Robot 70 monitor
& Robot 80 camera
- 1971 - Audio
Frequency Spectrum Analyzer for SSTV - W0LMD
- 1971 - Old
plumbicons from TV stations used for SSTV camera, W7ABW
- 1972 - SSTV
keyboard is first SSTV integrated circuit unit W0LMD
- 1972 - Publication of the "SSTV Handbook", W9NPT,WB8DQT
- 1973 - Camera
Scan Converter uses TV camera for SSTV - W6MXV & W0LMD
- 1973 - Double vidicon tubes provide bright SSTV pictures
on TV monitors - W9NTP & SM0BUO
- 1974 - Receiving
SSTV Shift Register Scan Converter - WB9LVI, W6MXV, & W0LMD
- 1975 - Three
color shift register scan converter, W9NTP
- 1975 - Robot 300 using salvaged Princeton double vidicons
- 1976 - Color multiframe SSTV receive/transmit Scan Converter
using color wheel filters - W9NTP
- 1976 - RAM SSTV scan converters, W0LMD, WB9LVI (Microcraft)
- 1976 - Solid state RAM Robot 400 obsoletes Robot Model
300
- 1977 - Personal Computer 1st used to send & receive SSTV,
W0LMD
- 1978 - Special Temporary Authorization (STA) to send Medium
Scan Television - 36 KHZ, W0LMD
- 1979 - 1st moving TV from USA to Europe without cable or
satellite, W0LMD
- 1980 - Single frame color developed, W0LMD
- 1984 - Robot 1200 provides commercial single frame color,
Multiple Analog Components (MAC) method\
- 1984 - SSTV using the Radio Shack Color Computer, K6AEP,
WB8DQT
- 1986 - 1992 - Various high resolution color systems developed
- 1993 - PC based software & hardware boards for SSTV, Pasokon
- 1995 - PC DOS based software & an operational amplifier
interface for SSTV marketed
- 1997 - PC Windows & Sound Blaster based SSTV software marketed
If you find a problem, send Don Miller, W9NTP email: wyman@svs.net
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