Sources of Additional Information

You could easily get the impression that there is a conspiracy to suppress modern information on SSTV. For example,

It is possible to find modern material on this fascinating topic but you need to know where to look.


Handbooks


Slow Scan Television Explained
by Mike Wooding G6IQM
(1992 -- ISBN 0-9513779-3-0)
(Available from British Amateur Television Club.)

SSTV HANDBOOK
The primary author is JA6OAC but the rest is hard to decipher because it is in Japanese.)
(1994 -- ISBN 4-7898-1011-9 C3055 P4500E)

Thanks to NL9222TV for the next two items:

Das FAX/SSTV Praxisbuch fur Funkamateure
by DK5BI. (in German)
In the book they explain all about ioc-speeds-transmissiontimes, equipment for fax/hell and sstv also Pasokon TV v1.2, easyfax, pk232, sc-2, pk900, scanmate, and a Robot 1200 look alike converter "FH21-P".


FAX voor de Radioamateur.
by ??? (in Dutch).
Tells about the basics of FAX, rebuilding office machines for ham use, how to hook up an oscilloscope, all explanations with small schematics. Equipment mentioned in this book are AEA-FAX, COMM-FAX (C64), FAX64 (C64), FAX-1, FAXELITE with Digisat 5, OMNIFAX, Pakratt 232MBX, PKFAX, and SUPERFAX.


The 1995 edition of the ARRL Handbook for Radio Amateurs has a completely updated and greatly expanded section on SSTV.

Last, but not least, this Multimedia SSTV Handbook has the best potential for bringing you the most recent developments. A hardcopy book sitting on your shelf will be the same every time you drag it out. Visit here couple months later and it could be quite different!


SSTV Newsletter

VISION
International Visual Communications Association (IVCA)
P.O. Box 140336
Nashville, TN 37214


ATV Magazines and Newsletters

There are a few magazines that specialize in Amateur Television. These are mostly oriented toward Fast Scan TV but SSTV is mentioned occasionally.

CQ-TV
British Amateur Television Club
Dave Lawton G0ANO
Greenhurst, Pinewood Road
High Wycombe, Bucks HP12 4DD
England

ATVQ
5931 Alma Dr.
Rockford, IL 61108 USA
tel. 815-398-2683
e-mail atvq@aol.com

Amateur TV Today!
QCD Publications
1492 Highway 30
Tipton, IA 52216-9335


Bibliography

I've purposely excluded the scores of articles describing modifications to the Robot 400 (an early Black & White only system) because they're all in the booklets from ESF and of little interest to someone without a Robot 400.

Abrams, Clay K6AEP & Taggart, Ralph WB8DQT, "Color Computer SSTV", 73, Nov-Dec 84.

Bonomo, Denis F6GKQ, "Pasokon TV: La SSTV sur votre PC", Megahertz Magazine, Sep 93, p. 54.

Cameroni, Giuseppe I2CAB & Morellato, Giancarla I2AED (translated by Jim Grubbs K9EI), "get on SSTV - with the C-64", ham radio, Oct. 86, P. 43.

Churchfield, Terry K3HKR, "Amiga AVT System", 73 Amateur Radio, Jul 89, p. 29.

Geier, Michael Jay KB1UM, "The SSTV Explorer", Radio Fun, Jun 95, p. 6.

Geier, Michael Jay KB1UM, "Pasokon TV Slow-Scan TV Interface", 73 Amateur Radio Today, Jul 95, P. 32.

Geir, Michael J. K1BUM, "A Look at Pasokon's 3.1 SSTV System", 73 Amateur Radio Today, Jul 98, p. 31.

Glidden, Ray W5NOO, "Getting Started with Slow Scan Television", QST, Sep 97, p. 53.

Goodman, Dick WA3USG, "SSTV with the Robot 1200C Scan Converter and the Martin Emmerson EPROM Version 4.0", 73 Amateur Radio Today, Jul 91, p. 46.

Harlan, Gene WB9MMM, "Slow Scan TV with the Sound Blaster", QEX, May 93.

Hioki, Takashi JF1GUQ, "Pasokon TV", Mobile Ham Amateur Radio Magazine, Feb 93, p. 22.

Langner, John WB2OSZ, "Color SSTV for the Atari ST", 73 Amateur Radio, Dec 89, p. 38, Jan 90, p. 41.

Langner, John WB2OSZ, "SSTV - The AVT System Secrets Revealed", CQ-TV 149 (Feb 90), p. 79.

Langner, John WB2OSZ, "Slow Scan Television - It isn't expensive anymore", QST, Jan. 93, p. 20.

Langner, John WB2OSZ, "Slow-Scan TV Questions and Answers", Radio Fun, Feb. 95, p. 13.

Montalbano, John KA2PYJ, "The ViewPort VGA Color SSTV System", 73, Aug 92, p. 8.

Pagel, Paul N1FB, "Radioware SSTV Explorer", QST, Apr 94, p. 80.

Schick, Martin K. KA4IWG, "Color SSTV and the Atari Computer", QST, Aug 85.

Taggart, Dr. Ralph E. WB8DQT, "The Romscanner", QST, Mar. 86, p. 21.

Taggart, Ralph WB8DQT, .... JPS SSTV filter review .... QST, when?

Vester, Ben K3BC, "An Inexpensive SSTV System", QST, Jan. 94, p. 27.

Vester, Ben K3BC, "An Inexpensive SSTV System continues to Grow", QST, Dec. 94, p. 22.


Nets

There are two nets every Saturday at 15:00 and 18:00 UTC on 14.230 MHz.


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