Slow Scan Television is not dead. Tune into 14.230 and/or 14.233 and you
will hear all sorts of it.

Please get your facts right before ranting.

Dan/W4NTI

"John Smith" wrote in message
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Mike:

"Amateur TV" or SSTV is dead, replaced by much newer technology which, it
seems, most hams are ignorant of and have not implemented yet (you can
still see SSTV in museums run by private hams--i.e, their "radio shack"
and in current use by a few "dinosaur hams.")

The technology is on the shelf, so I take it your real question is, "How
come no one has asked/petitioned the FCC to use a "real" video mode on
amateur radio yet?"

And, if so, if that is your question, I fail to come up with a good
answer--but like I stated earlier, listen to some of the data streams you
hear on VHF/UHF/SHF--those sound faster than 300 baud modems, don't you
think?

Or, maybe it is just my imagination? Gee, I never thought of it, you don't
suppose a some of those are freebanders, do you? grin

You do know we are all going to digital TV soon, don't you? I mean
digital broadcast TV, surely by then the hams will take the hint, don't
you think?

John

"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
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RST Engineering wrote:
Did anybody else catch the scatalogical implications of the
mis-spelling?

But I'm waiting to catch any technological solution to the digital image
transmission problem at hand.

I read much invective.

I read very little that is tangible.

Not even how modern video compression techniques could be applied to
Amateur TV. *That* is one area in which some advances could be made.

But it looks like invective is what we have to settle for.


- Mike KB3EIA -