Foundations Of Amateur Radio

Foundations of Amateur Radio In 1958 The Kentucky Engineer published an award winning student article by Copthorne "Coppie" MacDonald. He described a Slow-Scan T.V. System for Image Transmission. If you get the opportunity, have a look for the link on his archived home-page which you can find from the Wikipedia SSTV page. The purpose of this narrow band television idea was to be able to send images using cheaper equipment and less bandwidth than normal television. The idea caught on and it's still in use today. In 1959 the idea of slow scan tv was used by the Luna 3 mission to transmit images from the far side of the moon. The NASA Apollo program also used SSTV to transmit images from Apollo 7, 8, 9 and from the Apollo 11 Lunar Module. In 1968 SSTV became a legal mode for radio amateurs in the United States. The International Space Station regularly uses SSTV to send images to radio amateurs across the globe. The version of SSTV in use by radio amateurs today is different from the earlier grainy black a