Robot36 - SSTV Image Decoder

4.3
2.08K reviews
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About this app

Following SSTV modes are supported:

Robot Modes: 36 & 72
PD Modes: 50, 90, 120, 160, 180, 240 & 290
Martin Modes: 1 & 2
Scottie Modes: 1, 2 & DX
Wraase Mode: SC2-180

Old B/W or unsupported modes can be viewed in "Raw" mode.

On detection of the calibration header of a supported mode, the resulting image will be automatically saved to the "Pictures" directory and can be seen in the Image gallery.

With version 2, running the decoder in the background will not be supported anymore.
Updated on
Mar 13, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.4
1.94K reviews
Christian Bielefeld
September 16, 2024
Hey Ahmet, this app works really well at decoding, and that's without using a HAM radio and just playing back SSTV audio from YouTube. One note, and this doesn't affect the rating: it seems like Scottie DX peaks out the microphone and causes the app to switch to RAW for second intervals, which causes cyan-line artifacting that prevents images in that format from saving. Not your fault though, just a side effect of my mic being just OK. Everything else works great though!
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Ahmet Inan
September 17, 2024
Can you please send me an audio recording using the same setup? A screenshot would also help see the problem. Most of the time, the microphone really is just over-driven and then you simply need to lower the volume and put the devices closer to each other. That helps reducing echo, distortion and improves signal to noise ratio.
Mark Phillips
October 20, 2023
We've been using this app for some times now to decode the International Space Station SSTV events. It's been really fun, very easy to use. Unfortunately the space station has had an issue with their radio for the last year so we've not been able to get any new images from there. However, there is a YouTube channel called 'Slow Scan TV' that's got a couple of thousand of SSTV to decode, and itched that itch. Brilliant app, and never fails to impress adult and children alike with the ISS.
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Lucas Miller
January 2, 2025
Nice SSTV receiver app. I've been using it for a long time now. But at least for me the v. 2 is a regression. PD290 is finally back, but from my tests always fails to properly synchronize and cuts off large portion from right of the image. The spectrum analyzer also looks worse than v. 1 and as the description says, the app is no longer made for running in background. Improvement is only in audio settings control, but since I don't use those I returned to version 1.48 from F-Droid archive.
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Ahmet Inan
January 3, 2025
V2 is a rewrite in Java, so some sacrifices had to be made. While PD290 is decoded and stored whole, only the first 640 pixels of 800 are shown in the scope view to keep things simple. Please send us audio recordings where it fails. The analyzer was replaced by a simpler frequency plot, showing the demodulated signal which is fed to the decoders.

What’s new

- added Latin American Spanish translation
- added spectrogram and made default
- added option to switch back to frequency plot
- updated libs and tools