Euro DX on 20

[Highlander_821]

Had an SSTV QSO with EA7AGX in Spain on 14.230, and a Phone QSO on 14.229 with HB9RDE in Switzerland. Band was up and down like mad, though, lots of ststic crashes messing up SSTV pics.

SSTV is addictive! You know you've been running MMSSTV too long when you go to bed and still hear SSTV bleeping in your head!

 

[Sonwatcher]

SSTV is addictive! You know you've been running MMSSTV too long when you go to bed and still hear SSTV bleeping in your head!

LOL ! I remember when I first started using SSTV. I would stay up most of the night sending and receiving SSTV. My pour wife was trying to sleep. She must have thought she was in a room full of modems or fax machines ! What's neat is to locate a site that has SSTV images posted that refresh that cover all over the world and see where your image shows up.

 

[Sonwatcher]

Here is a good site to do that on-

http://pe2swl.sprinterweb.net/

I got a QSL card from the owner of the site in the Netherlands.

 

[Highlander_821]

Far out!

 

[SR385]

My very first SSTV contact was made with a gent from the UK. It's tricky to get DX contacts on there in the conditions we have.

Lots of fun.

I didn't realize the tradition was to have a phone QSO going and discuss the pics as you swap them. I've mostly seen people CQ via pics, so I returned the call and confirmed one with no phone contact.

The down side is that it is quite a wide mode so you get intentional QRM from people who are mad that it goes on, 14.230 in particular is rough.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

The down side is that it is quite a wide mode so you get intentional QRM from people who are mad that it goes on, 14.230 in particular is rough.

An SSTV signal is no wider than a typical SSB voice signal if things are run properly. You are only using audio freqs. transmitted on SSB. The same thing goes for RTTY or any other SSB modulated mode. There are people that will QRM 14.230 in hopes of driving people off so that they themselves can use the freq.:thumbdown:

 

[Highlander_821]

An SSTV signal is no wider than a typical SSB voice signal if things are run properly. You are only using audio freqs. transmitted on SSB. The same thing goes for RTTY or any other SSB modulated mode. There are people that will QRM 14.230 in hopes of driving people off so that they themselves can use the freq.:thumbdown:

That is so true. I can tune to 14.233 and hear absolutely NOTHING from 14.230, even with BIG signals on 230. But I can sure hear phone splatter from the guy on 14.237 USB with the "Broadcast Quality" audio. Blechh!