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OPERATING PROCEDURES · Television practices: fast-scan television standards and techniques; slow scan television standards and techniques

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How is color information sent in analog SSTV?

  1. AColor lines are sent sequentially
  2. BColor information is sent on a 2.8 kHz subcarrier
  3. CColor is sent in a color burst at the end of each line
  4. DColor is amplitude modulated on the frequency modulated intensity signal
Why Analog SSTV transmits an image line by line as an audio-frequency FM tone, where the instantaneous frequency represents brightness (roughly 1500 Hz black to 2300 Hz white). There is no room for a separate color subcarrier in a 3 kHz SSB channel, so color modes like Scottie and Martin send each scan line three times in sequence, once for each color component (red, green, blue, or luminance plus two color-difference signals). The receiving software reassembles the sequential color lines into one full-color line.
Watch out The color burst idea comes from analog fast-scan NTSC television, which uses a 3.58 MHz color subcarrier with a burst on the back porch of each line; SSTV has no such subcarrier.
SSTV is slow because it sends each line three times: red, then green, then blue, one color at a time.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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The rest of E2B

  1. E2B01 In digital television, what does a coding rate of 3/4 mean?
  2. E2B02 How many horizontal lines make up a fast-scan (NTSC) television frame?
  3. E2B03 How is an interlaced scanning pattern generated in a fast-scan (NTSC) television system?
  4. E2B04 How is color information sent in analog SSTV?
  5. E2B05 Which of the following describes the use of vestigial sideband in analog fast-scan TV transmissions?
  6. E2B06 What is vestigial sideband modulation?
  7. E2B07 Which types of modulation are used for amateur television DVB-T signals?
  8. E2B08 What technique allows commercial analog TV receivers to be used for fast-scan TV operations on the 70-centime…
  9. E2B09 What kind of receiver can be used to receive and decode SSTV using the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) protocol?
  10. E2B10 What aspect of an analog slow-scan television signal encodes the brightness of the picture?
  11. E2B11 What is the function of the vertical interval signaling (VIS) code sent as part of an SSTV transmission?
  12. E2B12 What signals SSTV receiving software to begin a new picture line?
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