DIGITAL SSTV tips & questions

[Sonwatcher]

The receive signal was totally green on 14.233 .Waterfall works fine. Lined the lines up with the 2 dots. But never receive a picture. Have never figured it out.
Hope you are doing ok after the surgery !

 

[hookedon6]

The receive signal was totally green on 14.233 .Waterfall works fine. Lined the lines up with the 2 dots. But never receive a picture. Have never figured it out.
Hope you are doing ok after the surgery !

tnx, i'm getting around a little better.

"The receive signal was totally green"

try reducing the soundcard input so the green bar will only move about 1/3 of the way, max
also there are three "dots" at abt 750, 1500, and 1800.

can you copy any text messages in the waterfall?

 

[Sonwatcher]

What I mean is that it is only green. Not changing color. I have tried it with the soundcard adjustment but nothing changed. There were times I have read text in the waterfall .

 

[hookedon6]

if you are decoding text in the waterfall, then everything is proper, it may perhaps need a little "tweaking" on sound levels, but it will work .

the band is really poor now, i'll bet the rx sig is just not strong enough. i have only been able to print a few stations for the last couple days now.

 

[Highlander_821]

It kind of gave me the willies when I first saw text in the waterfall! Kind of a weird "ghost in the machine" feeling came over me.

Did I just see that?

 

[hookedon6]

wait 'till you get your first grey scale picture in the waterfall :blink::blink:

 

[Moleculo]

14.230 is what I hope you meant ;-) .300 is the maritime mobile net

Yeah, I fat finger'd that. And .300 isn't the maritime mobile net if I'm there first J/K!

I FINALLY had some time to configure this today and RX'd my first image. That is just too cool! I think I'll let it run for a bit and see what all it picks up while I do some chores around the house. Later I've got to do some sending (if I can find anything interesting to send)

 

[SR385]

Man....I spent most of the weekend wired up for digi modes and totally forgot to check out DSSTV! Figures....

Olivia on 80m is a ton of fun btw, 100% copy for hour+ QSOs when the signal is barely or not visible on the waterfall. It's slow due to the FEC (error correction) but reliable as a result. Probably my favorite 'chat' mode now.