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submitted 1 month ago by lnxtx to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] 667@lemmy.radio 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This tech (mondernized) is still in use!

Here is an SSTV image I received as part of an image exchange with another amateur radio operator; I was in New Mexico and they were in Illinois:

The “P5” is the image equivalent to a signal report.

Depending on the encoding method, it can take some time to transmit the image, as each line is sent sequentially.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Could this be potentially be useful in the early spacefaring age when we'd (presumably) have to be judicious with bandwidth?