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  2. Slow-scan television - Wikipedia

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    Slow-scan television (SSTV) is a picture transmission method, used mainly by amateur radio operators, to transmit and receive static pictures via radio in monochrome or color. A literal term for SSTV is narrowband television .

  3. Amateur Radio on the International Space Station - Wikipedia

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    The Service Module IORS radio typically is used for packet radio operations like Automatic Packet Reporting System activities or Slow-scan television events. The IORS consists of a special, modified JVCKenwood D710GA transceiver, an AMSAT-developed multi voltage power supply and interconnecting cables.

  4. Narrow-bandwidth television - Wikipedia

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    There are three ways to reduce the bandwidth of a video signal: reduce the scan rate, reduce the image size, and/or (with digital television) use heavier compression.When the scan rate is reduced, this is referred to as slow-scan TV or, in the most extreme cases when the scan rate is too slow to simulate motion, freeze frame television.

  5. Amateur television - Wikipedia

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    Propagation is similar to the lowest UHF TV broadcast channels. Additionally, this band can be easily received by simply tuning any cable-ready analog television or cable-box to the cable TV channels below and connecting an outdoor TV antenna. Amateur TV signals are much weaker than broadcast TV, so a preamplifier is often used to improve ...

  6. Apollo TV camera - Wikipedia

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    Apollo 7 slow-scan TV, transmitted by the RCA command module TV camera. NASA decided on initial specifications for TV on the Apollo command module (CM) in 1962. [2] [ Note 1] Both analog and digital transmission techniques were studied, but the early digital systems still used more bandwidth than an analog approach: 20 MHz for the digital system, compared to 500 kHz for the analog system. [2]

  7. SSTV - Wikipedia

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    Slow-scan television, a picture transmission method Sun Siyam TV , a Maldivian television channel Submerged Shock Test Vehicle - weaponry test to discover Weapon-Induced (Near Miss) Shock, meaning shock motions (displacement) experienced by any part of weapon itself or its assembly, i.e. while testing of SLATACMS .

  8. UPI Newstime - Wikipedia

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    UPI Newstime was the second 24-hour all-news television network in the US for cable TV, following AP Newscable for 13 years and predating CNN by 2 years. UPI Newstime was unique in how it distributed its programming to local cable TV (CATV) headends via satellite, using a form of slow-scan television, or SSTV technology.

  9. Apollo 11 missing tapes - Wikipedia

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    The original slow-scan television signal from the Apollo TV camera, photographed at Honeysuckle Creek on July 21, 1969. The Apollo 11 missing tapes were those that were recorded from Apollo 11's slow-scan television (SSTV) telecast in its raw format on telemetry data tape at the time of the first Moon landing in 1969 and subsequently lost.