IVCA VISION NEWS
LETTER
No.1 Sept
13 --- 2001
THE INTERNATIONAL VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS
ASSOCIATION
Keeping Amateurs informed on Developments in Visual Communication
around the world
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This is the first official I.V C.A VISION news letter Using e--mail. To
get
the news letter back up and running we used the QRZ web page to locate
the
e-mail address information for all of the members. As some don't have
an
e-mail service provider or are not listed we will send them a normal
surface
Snail Mail VISION news letter. Most feel the web based news letter
is
preferable and can be sent at a reduced cost. I have no experience with
desk
top publishing however several sample newsletters I have made and sent
were
found satisfactory by the members. I would also like to bring to the
attent
ion of all the members we now have, an e-mail reflector provided
by Yahoo
available that members can use to exchange information and request
help etc.
To learn more about the IVCA reflector group , please
visit
<
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ivca>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ivca
You can send e-mail to all IVCA members at the
following
<mailto:ivca@yahoogroups.com>ivca@yahoogroups.com
In order to publish an interesting and informative news letter, the
members
can send any information on slow scan television new products
or
hardware/software information and also any details on activity of a
general
interest to me at
<ray@junct.com
In the past I have made several sample
news letters trying
to determine the best method to use. I found I could
compress a web page to a
fraction of it's size using a Real Media "RM" format.
This however requires
that a free software program "Real Player" be
installed. I understand that
most now days have the Real Player installed if
not it is free and available
for down load at
<http://www.real.com>http://www.real.com I
would like to know if you have
the Real Player installed as it makes it
practical to send a smaller file size and
even short video with sound can be
sent in e-mail.
For future VISION news letters I would like your suggestions, Ideas
and
inputs. I believe that the PC has been a tremendous help providing
simple
inexpensive SSTV hardware and operating systems. I presently use
several of
the free web Video and Voice mail programs that have the
advantage of color,sound
and motion to be sent over the web.
(The old
timers that constructed P7 CRT monitors and Vidicon cam's and Flyin
Spot
scanners, I'm sure find the cheap color cams' and PC sound card set-ups
a
blessing.)
I'm not sure if you had a problem connecting Mic, Sound Cards and
Speakers
etc. to your Xceiver and PC (Out of necesity I designed a special
switch box
interface some time back to solve this problem) We now have
several new
commercial Interface Box devices to use for the digital and SSTV
modes, The
newest one is by TigerTronics the SL-1 Signal Link at $49.95 see
QST Oct. 2001
for details we also have similar devices by the Rig Blaster Co,
and MFJ
Enterprises Note: you can down load digital and SSTV programs from
some of
their web pages.
I'll keep this a little plain Jane (No color or
graphics) and a little
short and see if this group mail thing realy works.
See you on the Saturday
14.230 Mhz
net.
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Happy Viewing 73 Ray W5NOO
EDITOR
