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This weekend, ARISS (Amateur Radio aboard the International Space Station) has arranged with NASA, Roscomos, and the ISS astronauts to rebroadcast a series of SSTV images from the ISS as part of NOTA (NASA On The Air) and in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8.
They are VERY easy to receive. Most amateur radio satellites tumble and have less than 1W of power. The ISS is stabilized and has many watts! If you have never done SSTV before, you can even record the audio from your HT and play it back later into software like MMSSTV, or you can, like me, pipe your radio directly into a sound card or something like Signalink. The downlink is 145.800, and you can find out when the ISS will be overhead by looking on the ARISS web site. (At our lattitude and this time of year, we actually get many passes in a row since it is visible to us at the northern peak even if the ascending or descending nodes are no where close to us.)
Have fun! It’s a real blast to have stuff like this sent from space directly to your antenna!
I’m quite sure, by the way, that the picture of the astronaut is Owen Garriott, the first ham in space, who made QSOs from space on STS-9 as W5LFL.
I forgot to mention that the event will conclude around 1725z on Sunday.
One good place to get the ISS location is here: https://n2yo.com/?s=25544&df=1
And btw, I forgot to have doppler compensation turned on at one point and it still worked. On 2m FM, it is not too fussy.
I got an electronic QSL card (actually SWL card, I guess) from ARISS, validated and made by the Polish reps to ARISS.
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