Slow scan TV has long been the home of some really creepy guys who wear dirty macs and salivate heavily whenever they hear a YL on the air. Well now they have another band where they can find soft porn pictures of hairy Russian women shot putters with callsigns covering the naughty bits. Just what was needed.
This from Southgate ARC News... Slow Scan TV on 10 MHz
Details of a narrow band version of Slow Scan TV (SSTV) for use on the 10 MHz (30m) band are now available.
The Amateur Radio 10 MHz band is only 50 kHz wide and by convention Amateurs in most of the world have not used it for wideband modes such as SSB or SSTV. Fortunately a narrow band version of SSTV is available and Amateurs are increasingly using it on this band.
An article by Andy K3UK on the subject is now available at -
http://amateur-radio-wiki.net/index....Bandwidth_SSTVFree MMSSTV Software(see Andy's article on how to change it to narrow band before using it on 30m) - http://mmhamsoft.amateur-radio.ca/pages/mmsstv.php
RSGB Bandplans - http://www.rsgb.org/spectrumforum/bandplans/
MFSK16 has had the ability to send and receive thumbnail images for years, and is far better than so called SSTV as you can seamlessly switch between text and image transmission. As a narrow band digital mode you could use it on 30m. So I'm not sure what is supposed to be new about this. Nor what the attraction is in exchanging scratchy thumbnail images of scantily clad women when you could get a whole pageful of them in full res just by typing a couple of words into Google. So I'm told.
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