https://www.qsl.net/on6mu/rxsstv.htm
Time for something completely different. As a kid, I lusted after the ROBOT SSTV systems that were advertised in QST. Yesterday, on a lark, I downloaded this program, tuned my Mythbuster transceiver to 14.230 MHz, and put the podcast microphone in front of the speaker. BOOM! SSTV signals started pouring in. The program automatically set the kind of SSTV format that was coming in, so there was no need for me to try to figure out if it was Scottie 1 or Martin 1 or whatever. I've done this before, but this program made it easier. The invention of SSTV by Copthorne MacDonald (another GREAT ham radio name!) is really interesting:
https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2011/07/early-days-of-sstv-by-copthorne.html
I note that the first article in QST appeared in the month of my birth, and the FCC decided to allow SSTV in the phone bands when I was 10 years old.
Here are some signals received yesterday at N2CQR:
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