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Loggings => VHF/UHF Logs, including satellites and radiosondes => Topic started by: dragund on November 29, 2017, 2157 UTC

Title: ISS SSTV planned for next week
Post by: dragund on November 29, 2017, 2157 UTC

https://amsat-uk.org/2017/11/29/slow-scan-tv-from-space-dec-5-6/

Title: Re: ISS SSTV planned for next week
Post by: Terry on December 01, 2017, 1413 UTC

Thanks for info. I have a lot of fun receiving the station SSTV on a scanner and Chris' CQ SSTV app on my iPhone. The neighbors are always amazed.

Title: Re: ISS SSTV planned for next week
Post by: dragund on December 05, 2017, 0344 UTC

Quote from: Terry on December 01, 2017, 1413 UTC

Thanks for info. I have a lot of fun receiving the station SSTV on a scanner and Chris' CQ SSTV app on my iPhone. The neighbors are always amazed.

Np

To decode SSTV signals, I normally connect my radio to a Windows Surface Tablet by an audio cord.  If don't know when a signal is coming (shortwave stuff) I just leave the MMSTV app running and it automatically decodes the signal and saves pictures in its directory.  If I know within a reasonable time that a signal is coming, (Like when tracking the ISS) I just leave audacity running and record the signal.  I can then clean up with signal a bit before running MMSTV.

For when I go outside to get a better signal, I'd like to directly connect the radio to my iPhone (7 with the lightning port) with an audio cord, but don't know what kind of cord to buy.  Do you use thsi kind of setup, or just play the audio into the iPhone's external microphone?

Ty

Title: Re: ISS SSTV planned for next week
Post by: Terry on December 05, 2017, 1626 UTC

I just play the audio from the scanner into the iPhone mic.
I also leave the FT-857 connected to the computer with audio cord directly to the computer running MMSSTV. The 857 uses a dual band J-Pole anntenns (2 m & 70 cm)

Update: No transmission on the 1900Z pass over the Caribbean. Waiting on 2030Z pass over the south and east of the US.

Title: Re: ISS SSTV planned for next week
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on December 05, 2017, 2008 UTC

Delayed until tomorrow: https://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/2017/11/mai-75-in-december.html

Title: Re: ISS SSTV planned for next week
Post by: Terry on December 05, 2017, 2037 UTC

Thanks Chris. I was just getting ready to post that nothing on the pass that is happening right now.
Do you have a recommendation for sstv on a MacBook Pro. As mentioned above, I have your app on my iPhone. I was looking at this:
http://www.qsl.net/kd6cji/downloads.html

Title: Re: ISS SSTV planned for next week
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on December 06, 2017, 1101 UTC

Quote from: Terry on December 05, 2017, 2037 UTC

Thanks Chris. I was just getting ready to post that nothing on the pass that is happening right now.
Do you have a recommendation for sstv on a MacBook Pro. As mentioned above, I have your app on my iPhone.

I may be biased, but I recommend MultiMode Cocoa :)  https://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/cw-rtty-sstv-fax-psk31-packet-decoding-software.html

Title: Re: ISS SSTV planned for next week
Post by: Terry on December 06, 2017, 1921 UTC

Forgot you did a multimode program for the Mac.
Anyhoo, got up from afternoon nap and had received this during the 1 pm EST pass at 14 deg east. Ground track from Panama across Haiti and ending in the N Atlantic E of Bermuda.
Next pass over SE US in about 15 minutes.