QSSTV(1)
π qsstv(1) β the manual page, but make it make sense π
okay bestie, welcome to the qsstv page from the General Commands Manual (that's section 1, the "you just run this thing" section, iykyk). it's a whole program and honestly it's iconic, so let's get into it. π
β¨ NAME β¨
qsstv β Qt based slow scan television and fax π¦
like. that's the whole vibe. it's giving "ham radio but make it cute".
β¨ SYNOPSIS β¨
qsstv
that's it. that's the whole thing. no flags, no args, no drama. you type it, it goes. periodt. π
β¨ DESCRIPTION β¨
so qsstv is a program for sending and receiving slow-scan TV and fax. π«Ά
these are modes used by hamradio operators β yeah, the radio people, they're out here being main characters and we love that for them. π»π
and here's the cute part: qsstv uses a soundcard to send and receive images. your soundcard. just out here doing radio things. no cap, that's genuinely how it works. π₯
so basically: images in, images out, soundcard in the middle doing the heavy lifting. obsessed. β¨
β¨ SEE ALSO β¨
the qsstv documentation is available from π
http://users.telenet.be/on4qz/qsstv/manual
go read it if you want the deep lore, bestie. it's right there. π§
β¨ FILES β¨
settings for qsstv are saved in π
$HOME/.config/ON4QZ/qsstv_X.Y.conf
heads up: thatX.Yis literally placeholder-ish β it's standing in for the version numbers, so what actually lands on your disk depends on which version you're running. don't go grepping for a file named literallyqsstv_X.Y.confand then come crying to me, okay? π
and that's the page, babes. π this was the QSSTV(1) page from the General Commands Manual β shoutout to whoever wrote it, they ate and left no crumbs. π now go send some pictures over a soundcard like the legend you are. ππ π
π¦ where this page comes from
- debian trixie: qsstv 9.5.8-6 Β· GPL-3.0-only
- ubuntu questing: qsstv 9.5.8-6
- ubuntu resolute: qsstv 9.5.8-6build1 Β· GPL-3.0-only
- ubuntu stonking: qsstv 9.5.8-6build1 Β· GPL-3.0-only
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms