slow-scan

noun

A technique for transmitting and receiving images via radio, used mainly by amateur radio operators.

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Meanings

nounslow-scan (uncountable)
  1. attributiveuncountableA technique for transmitting and receiving images via radio, used mainly by amateur radio operators.

    Slow-scan equipment can attach to any ham radio with single-sideband voice capability. The Robot 400 processes signals from the camera and to the monitor. Slow-scan is the hot new thing in ham radio, with thousands of stations already able to send and receive it.

    1980, Popular Mechanics (volume 53, number 3, page 123)
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