last one of the day maybe.. not a great copy from the handy today

Our post on ISS SSTV has been shared at Southgate ARC world famous web site *Thanks!*

I just spotted on twitter that Southgate ARC had kindly shared our ISS SSTV success using the Lynx-7 tablet and a Beofeng (duel band!) hand held. Thank very much guys

Link to above article

Link to southgate ARS website

Today's iss prediction passed

Setting up raspberry pi 3 and QSSTV latest 9.1

You need an external usb sound card

Next set up alsa mixer and increase the microphone gain!

In a command line window type:

Sudo alsamixer

Press the F6 key to select sound card

Choose the usb sound card using up and down arrow keys and press enter.

Use arrow right key to select Mic, use up arrow to increase to about 52.

Press escape key to return to command line

To install QSSTV type:

sudo apt-get install g++ libfftw3-dev qt5-default libpulse-dev

sudo apt-get install hamlib-dev libasound-dev  libv4l-dev

sudo apt-get install libopenjp2-7 libopenjp2-7-dev

Next download and install QSSTV

mkdir downloads

cd downloads

wget http://users.telenet.be/on4qz/qsstv/downloads/qsstv_9.1.8.tar.gz
tar -xvzf qsstv_9.1.8.tar.gz
cd qsstv_9.1.8
qmake
make
sudo make install

You can now run the program by typing qsstv at the prompt of a terminal session, or make a short cut on your desktop.
qsstv

Click on configuration

Click on sound and copy the above settings

Input and output set to your usb sound card.

Set the sound to alsa.

Plug an external microphone into the sound card. Turn up your radio and watch your pictures get decoded.

Space station is 145.800 fm

However 14.230 upper side band is more regular broadcast.

You can also hold the microphone near a sstv recording or YouTube video.

Have fun let me know how you get on!

Setting up raspberry pi 3 and QSSTV latest 9.1

You need an external usb sound card

Next set up alsa mixer and increase the microphone gain!

In a command line window type:

Sudo alsamixer

Press the F6 key to select sound card

Choose the usb sound card using up and down arrow keys and press enter.

Use arrow right key to select Mic, use up arrow to increase to about 52.

Press escape key to return to command line

To install QSSTV type:

sudo apt-get install g++ libfftw3-dev qt5-default libpulse-dev

sudo apt-get install hamlib-dev libasound-dev  libv4l-dev

sudo apt-get install libopenjp2-7 libopenjp2-7-dev

Next download and install QSSTV

mkdir downloads

cd downloads

wget http://users.telenet.be/on4qz/qsstv/downloads/qsstv_9.1.8.tar.gz
tar -xvzf qsstv_9.1.8.tar.gz
cd qsstv_9.1.8
qmake
make
sudo make install

You can now run the program by typing qsstv at the prompt of a terminal session, or make a short cut on your desktop.
qsstv

Click on configuration

Click on sound and copy the above settings

Input and output set to your usb sound card.

Set the sound to alsa.

Plug an external microphone into the sound card. Turn up your radio and watch your pictures get decoded.

Space station is 145.800 fm

However 14.230 upper side band is more regular broadcast.

You can also hold the microphone near a sstv recording or YouTube video.

Have fun let me know how you get on!