Is there an online webRX that will receive and decode SSTV bands? I live in a shitty part of the world with poor radio reception so online is the way for me.

I gotta admit, it's a little heartwarming that Mexican pirates are hijacking decommissioned military satellites to send each other family photos. That's not a sentence I expected to say today.

I remember decoding TASS RTTY in the 1980's with a Commodore 64 - it used to give out the USSR football results on screen!

"Saveitforparts" is a great youtuber. He is a bit of a tinker with satellites etc. Was amazed with one of his videos where he imaged the geo stationery belt Ku TV satellites in the sky...

Thank you Lewis for making a video about this. SSTV is probably my favorite mode. I made my first contact on 14.230 SSTV. I have her QSL card framed in the shack. For those listening, if you see a "Sad Pepe Meme", It's probably me. 73's and I hope to catch you ion the log!

I've experimented with SDRs for a few years now. Finally dipped my toes into the radio hobby with a UV5R, 771. I don't have a lot of money to get more expensive equipment and I don't live anywhere with a lot of radio, but I did find a local SDR. Sometimes I can hear the boats. The 771 is letting me get beeps which I think are something called RTTY maybe so I want to learn how to connect the radio to my computer and read those even if I only get nonsense letters. There's a feeling of human presence in radio that feels oddly missing in the internet now. Like the wild west of the very earliest days of the internet when I was a kid. I barely know what I'm doing but thank-you for making videos. I'm very isolated due to disability so its nice to remember there is a world outside. When I was very small, my dad had a big umbrella hybrid antenna he made with a big tv antenna, an umbrella and some metal foil for car exhausts, and a very old military radio and he used to talk to people from really far away. He's not with us anymore, but its nice to reconnect with those feelings again by listening. Some day I think I'd like to learn more and get licenced so I can speak, I think that would be a lot of fun. Thank-you, Ringway Manchester.

SSTV was even used in the Portal 2 ARG. In game radios when taken to a certain spot in the right test chamber would tune into SSTV broadcasts and players used that to get further hints into the ARG.

I follow this channel because it reminds me how big the world is. I may never go looking for signals, but it gives me a kick to know they exist.

I cannot believe this stuff is still around, and even still used? I had a S.S.T.V. receiver, with intergrated C.R.T. display, a "turnstile" antennae, and a wad of paperwork for it, all from a magazine kit, but in the absence of a satellite for relaying, I donated it all to my local Technical College some 30+ years ago. It was vital for newspapers in the early daze of satellites, from the 60's on, and no newspaper worthy went without a blurry, but adequate, "radiopicture", as called back then! Interesting that there's colour now, the bandwidth must have ballooned, but it was always just a very simple tech', 1200, or 2400 Hz. (memory maybe confused with Baud rates now, all so long ago, & far too obscure now!) modulation, if memory still serves, (doubtful!). It's tRICKy, but a big fan I am, great (but obscure?) work, lifelong radio quack I.

Now I finally know what the bleeping sounds in the KSP mod „Chatterer“ were!

I remember first hearing about SSTV when i was reading though the Portal ARG/Portal 2 teaser. Obviously, the signal is not transmitted on irl radio wave rather through a audio that plays in Portal 1 when carrying a Aperature Science radio to a specfic part of the level.

Next ISS SSTV event is Dec16 10:15Z - Dec 19 13:00Z, usually 145.800

Valve's puzzle game Portal added a lot of radios strewn throughout the game in 2011 as part of the alternate reality game teasing the release of Portal 2. Many of the radios, when moved to certain parts of the level, will begin receiving SSTV transmissions. With the SSTV program/app, you can scan for SSTV images directly from the sound output of the game. Please give it a try!

Who remembers the Tony Hancock Sketch, “The Radio Ham’’ ? ‘’Mayday, Mayday’’ ‘’What he talking about, that was weeks ago, it’s the Middle Of June’’ A sample of the sketch was put on a George Micheal song I think…

Very nice to see the plug for SaveItForParts. 👍 Ringway Manchester and SaveItForParts are two channels I stop everything else to watch.

American shortwave music pirates LOVE sending SSTV with their broadcasts as well, so that would also be a good place to look out for it as well.

decoding on a phone has made this thing way more practical today.

Great video, and thanks for the mention!

Ringway Manchester channel is a fantastic ham radio school for me! 📻📻📻📻❤❤❤❤

I wasn’t aware how popular SSTV still was until my visit to a recent Radio Rally…I will definitely give that app a go, excellent video Lewis.

Sending memes via SSTV. This is the way. Lol😂

Have you seen Curious Marc's videos on restoring the Apollo comms test gear? They had the right transmitting and receiving gear, but unfortunately not one of the original slow-scan cameras, but they still managed to modify a different camera and an old CRT monitor to send TV signals using Apollo gear. They're a great watch!

Successfully decoded on QSSTV on Linux. The hardest thing was setting up the virtual sink and monitor on Pipewire/Pulseaudio so it could pipe the audio from the KZfaq video to the program.

Loving the channel, I've been catching up on old videos and keep getting blessed with new ones! Great stuff! very interesting!!

Am I guessing correctly that early "Facsimile Machines" worked this way over phone lines? I remember old movies where the police department would have a machine that had a sheet of paper wrapped around a spinning drum and the image slowly appeared as dots were printed to form the picture. Acoustic coupled.

Love SSTV, not at all a HAM (but I do enjoy messing with webSDRs occasionally), but I often use it to "transmit" photos from my KSP ships to myself. Set up MMSSTV on a computer and a laptop, and "send" the sscreenshots through the speakers while moving around a bit with the laptop to get a very authentic looking early image from (virtual) space!

After I starting learning before getting my license my mind was blown when I found out about sstv. It still amazes me

Radio hams seem to be better hams than graphic designers 😂! I do like the 1980s picture postcard and the "adult services" phone kiosk card vibe though.

Thanks for posting Lewis, always an interesting watch

Amazing video rog!

Right after I got my license they were having a thing were they were sending SSTV images from the Space Station. I do not know how often they do this but I did get an image.

Thanks for the video. This is really neat!

I love the music, smooth and sexy jazzy chords! I love sending SSTV images to myself, no radio needs to be involved, it doesn’t record to tape very well though, must be the wow and flutter 😀👍

This was excellent, as usual.

That's a first... SSTV via KZfaq!!!

Gabe has a great channel, and he is very enthusiastic. Been subbed to him for a while.

This is pretty cool Lewis. I might have a go myself next year. Cheers bud.

The signals at the end vaguely reminded me of music I used to listen to at Uni in the 70's - only vaguely of course.

Just downloaded the android SSTV app and it works pretty good and is light on storage which I don't have a lot of. I decoded the two transmissions at the end of the video and they both show up in my image gallery on my phone.

Great video, Lewis...👍

Nice video,thanks,great to see Jodrell Bank in there …awesome as a kid in 70s and still awesome

This has sparked my interest. I was never into SSTV, being a microwaves fan I preferred fast scan TV on 23cm (1.2GHz) and 3cm (10GHz). Back then (40 odd years ago), the 3cm stuff was more like plumbing, with waveguides, flanges, lots of brass and copper and machining and whatnot. With my new found interest in HF, thanks mostly to this channel and the Shortwave Investigations channel, I'm going to give this a go. Thanks for posting 👍

very very cool !!

Novel way to send underground party flyers.

It reminds me of how programs and some loading screens used to download on the 48K ZX Spectrum. I have no idea how the baud rates compare.

lol I think I was there when it happened and I emailed you about it too 😂

Thank you for bringing up this, CBers,SWLers should do this more often nowadays as it is fun on all bands and teaches a lot about Data Transmission and D/A or A/D conversion

Thanks!

I have the Kenwood VH-1 SSTV camera/ microphone. It will work with most any radio and can be configured for for several formats. Has ten slots for captured images where you can select and send. Unfortunately it has been discontinued for over 20 years. There was also a commercial version but the only difference I found is that it had only nine memory slots.

Hay there buddy love your vids and watched them all I was brought up on cb as as kid I’m just just after help on getting my license and you seen best point of call 👌

Recording artist could use the SSTV concept to produce really cool album arts

The ISS was supposed to be sending SSTV yesterday and today but no one heard any signals, I think the next ISS SSTV event is 16 December,

Can you listen to these frequencies online because on sdr's indicate just vertical lines on the 14230 spectrum

It’s got madly simple these days with advances in technology. I remember my dad, with a G3 callsign building kit to receive SSTV back in the early 80’s with board loads of RAM to store the video in slow time and read it presumably as 625 line. How times have changed.

That was great. I have been a fan of SSTV for many years. years back we saved pic's on a tape recorder . you will find SSTV all over. just a radio all you need with a smart phone of laptop. with Icom 7300 and 705 I just use the USB cable to laptop. I do many outher modes like RTTY and FT8 etc. in the US I have done this with GMRS/MURS and even on CB. you can now use a USB C cable on a IC 705. they make a board to replace the micro USB board. is back order now. to send simple just hold mic over smartphone works great with the Baofeng UV-5R . I found the speaker mic can give a better pic. the pic's done on the waterfall is different . 73's Boston NY

The antenna at 7:40 looks interesting. What is it for ?

Nice

Are you able to pick SSTV signals with any type of radio? I'm looking to pick a XHDATA D109 and I was wondering

looked like the pye green tower at the start

Heh .. thx for the hint ;)

Why is it that i as a simple radio station listning addict (i have 12 radios) like this channel?

I don't hear much SSTV these days - 14230 used to be busy every weekend - but have no difficulty picking up HF WEFAX.

You should try listening to 27.700 MHz USB for 11m pirate SSTV. 👍

I have all three, I am an avid SWLer that uses webSDR for listening to hf, and I have tried to decode SSTV signals. I actually enjoy trying to copy SSTV too.

What is the image at 0:50 ??

Hello, on which antennas and at which frequencies sstv images were received.

This is the same thing used in portal from radios

What’s with all the browser game fonts and jibberish

Apart from the ISS what other frequencies can i decode i love ss-tv

I have the exact wrong kind of brain for this stuff but i want to learn anyway

So you have to have a radio license to use one of the phone apps? Complete newbie here! Thanks!

Teoretically people could send images on PMR446 and CB frequncies

2:22 ERIC I DON'T THINK THATS A GEOMETRY DASH LEVEL!

Weird and interesting!

I love how humans turn everything, even technical things like radio, into fun. Fun is good, so long as you're not a jerk about it. Have more fun.

i have never done much sstv may have copyed 30 pictures and sent 5 or 6 but tons of psk31 sense being licensed in 2007 . i have a friend that pirate to the iss a few times but he has seen the error of his ways

The Plot against Daniel

Im pleased to say I get better quality images from my ft817 and audio cable that from holding up the phone to the speakers in this video..... :)

Your better than Kirby 👍

Who can decode Sunak and his handlers?

I get high and watch this and it blows my mind.

You might just of helped the app on iTunes get to number one in the lifestyle chart as of 09:18 9/12/23

I send Pepsi Max over SSTV

SSTV over youtube. Daft but fun.

Oh yea, talk nerdy to me 🤓🤣🤣🤣 But seriously… can our devices be hacked, like this? Could a device mic pick this up, and hack it?

it was an ukrainian army flag badge

Why would you amplify whatever the Russian military are sending out tho

Ukies winning the war with images 😆

this is how the Ukraine will win lmao

This is also good fun to try over PMR446. 73 M7TUD