{"id":7240,"date":"2012-03-03T12:33:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T17:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2012-03-03T12:33:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T17:33:07","slug":"yay-a-completed-sstv-qso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/03\/yay-a-completed-sstv-qso\/","title":{"rendered":"yay! a completed SSTV QSO!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yay! KA4UPI<\/a> in Dublin, GA heard me, and replied.<\/p>\n

Thanks to KE5RS<\/a>‘s Live SSTV<\/a> page, I can see what I was sending – or at least, how it was received in Leander, TX by KE5RS:<\/p>\n

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This was sent in response to this:<\/p>\n

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Here’s what I send:<\/p>\n

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compared to what was heard in Texas:<\/p>\n

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Choosing images to send is difficult. The number of cheesecake images is a bit distressing. For good, free images, I use Wikimedia Commons<\/a>; the one I’ve used for my CQ call is File:Burrowing owl smile.jpg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SSTV is a fun little mode. I was saddened to hear that its creator, Copthorne Macdonald<\/a> VY2CM<\/a>, passed away late last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yay! KA4UPI in Dublin, GA heard me, and replied. Thanks to KE5RS‘s Live SSTV page, I can see what I was sending – or at least, how it was received in Leander, TX by KE5RS: This was sent in response to this: Here’s what I send: compared to what was heard in Texas: Choosing images […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2290],"tags":[2467],"class_list":["post-7240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio","tag-sstv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1SM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7247,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions\/7247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}