DroidSSTV - SSTV for Ham Radio

★★★★★ Awesome tech support & SSTV program! Being new to Android devices, I couldn't figure out some things with an old Chinese clone (v2.3.6) and new Acer (v4.2.2) smartphone (gifts never used until now). Wolf explained the various "menu" buttons for Android phones which was a hard to find hardware button labelled "Menu" on the old smartphone but the Acer's "menu" button is a nonsensical icon accessed with a quick double tap (other smartphones use a long press) of the multitask touch button and isn't covered in the Acer's manual at all! With Wolf's help I was able to get into all the program, and he explained some other program features. A big plus is the ability to snap a picture, select an area of it (or all), adjust the color/tonal properties, scale it down to a 320 x 256 SSTV image with decent detail, then add a text overly all on the fly! Especially useful for EMC OMM when no Internet/Wi-Fi is available to get images to back to the EOC. The old Kenwood VC-H1 is replaced by the new DroidS STV + Android smartphones! The tech support is what gives it a solid 5+ rating; Wolf patiently answered my all my questions which he probably has done umpteen times before for many others! FB OM ES 73 DIT

★★★★★ Very nice It works great! I just wish it could resize images. None of the images on my phone will load until I shrink them in size.

★★☆☆☆ An app that generates garbage is worse than one that doesn't work at all. Installed on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. Tried decoding a typically radio-degraded robot36 transmission - nothing happened. Tried a digital acoustic recording of a B/W12 transmission I had created an hour earlier - nothing happened. Nothing happened when I tried a similar Robot72 transmission. Tried optimizing volume levels and mic/speaker placement - nothing, several times. I eventually got some data when I generated a Robot72 transmission live on my computer, whilst practically holding the mic next to the speaker. The app ignored the first ten seconds of it, so it missed the VIS and assumed it was Martin2 instead, so it was incomplete AND wrongly decoded. History is broken too, only storing two lines of random pixels. This is my first one-star review for an app for reasons other than design or utility. It didn't decode correctly under near-ideal conditions, so how can we expect it to work in the noisy, band-limited environment SSTV was designed for? Bad enough that functions don't work at all - it's worse when they try but generate garbage. TX works though! The timer should be remaining not lapsed. Refunded. Twice because I had to buy again to post this review!

★★☆☆☆ Can not customize header I tried several attempts to customize the header, add text, add my qth, calls ignore, nothing saves. Does not support robot 36/72, Not a very good product for $7.