When I was a freshman at MSU in 1970 I was a member of the MSU amateur radio club. One day the faculty leader recruited me to help a Phd student with his Slow Scan TV experiments. The Phd student had a technicians license which didn't have operating privileges on the HF band.
So we operated in tandem and I got to learn all about the then brand new world of SSTV. It was really jerky video but you could send it all over the world. Remember vividly talking to an Egyptian ham who did a live broadcast from the pyramids with camels walking about and it was all live, hot stuff for the time.
The SSTV community was pretty small at the time, no more than a dozen leaders in the U.S. One of them was a fellow by the name of Don Miller from Indiana. Even after all these years I remember the name because there was earlier a rather infamous ham by the name of Don Miller who was an MD, who quit to travel the world putting rare nations on the air.
Shocked to learn a half century later that I was speaking with the greatest archeological thief of all time. Guess both Don Miller's from Indiana were scoundrels.
So we operated in tandem and I got to learn all about the then brand new world of SSTV. It was really jerky video but you could send it all over the world. Remember vividly talking to an Egyptian ham who did a live broadcast from the pyramids with camels walking about and it was all live, hot stuff for the time.
The SSTV community was pretty small at the time, no more than a dozen leaders in the U.S. One of them was a fellow by the name of Don Miller from Indiana. Even after all these years I remember the name because there was earlier a rather infamous ham by the name of Don Miller who was an MD, who quit to travel the world putting rare nations on the air.
https://www.amateurradio.com/the-don-miller-enigma/
Shocked to learn a half century later that I was speaking with the greatest archeological thief of all time. Guess both Don Miller's from Indiana were scoundrels.