Kingston area SSTV
Images
Check out some of the pictures that have been sent via SSTV
in the Kingston area on 145.500 simplex.
From Air to Web Page - How Did This Happen?
We had a temporary setup which worked quite well,
with received picture quality dramatically improved by using an outdoor
antenna. (2 metre mag mounted on a cake tin on side of building.)
We are presently not running SSTV directly to our web page but the info
here is presented for info on how it can be done quite easily.
The transmitted image is received via the antenna and a scanner set to
144.500 MHz.
The audio output of the scanner is fed into the
computer's sound card line in.
MMSSTV
software receives the audio and decodes the picture.
The FTP
Widget software finds the new image placed in the MMSSTV
directory and sends the new picture to the Club's site via FTP. The
software automatically keeps track of name the pictures to be viewed on
the web page. Our Slow
Scan Image page automatically refreshes itself every 60 seconds, and
on the next refresh the new image appears and the older images are
shifted over.
At times no picture will appear if refresh happens
as new image is being written to web site. All pictures are saved
in an archive folder with their original filename as assigned by MMSSTV
for viewing.