ARISS SSTV Event

Stanley vk3bot kindly brought to our attention this amazing event.

ARISS SSTV Event Scheduled for Monday, November 11 at 11:50 UTC and to end Monday, November 18 at 13:40 UTC.

WHEN:

November 6, 2024 — Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) announces an SSTV event to be held next week. The event is scheduled to begin on Monday, November 11 at 11:50 UTC and to end Monday, November 18 at 13:40 UTC.

SSTV transmissions will be paused during scheduled school contacts on November 15 and 16. Downlink transmissions will be at 145.800 MHz and the mode is expected to be PD 120.

DETAILS:

Freq.: 145.800 Khz (2M)

SSTV: Mode PD120

Times: Monday, November 11 at 11:50 UTC and to end Monday, November 18 at 13:40 UTC

ABOUT:

The transmissions will consist of 12 images featuring activities from the 2024 40th Anniversary Celebrating Amateur Radio in Human Spaceflight. If you are a past participant in our SSTV events, please note that we will be using our newly updated gallery at https://ariss-usa.org/ARISS_SSTV/ . 

ARISS has a new way to request a special certificate. When participants successfully receive at least one image and submit it at the new gallery, participants will be moved to a thank-you page.

There, a person can read text about data protection, and press the button that says “I agree,” and receive an email in two weeks or sooner with a certificate. If a person submits additional images, the thank-you page tells them they have already asked for a certificate.

Thanks to our user community for participating in ARISS.

TRACK HERE:

Click here to see the Space Station Location and Track

More here...

FROM STAN:

https://www.ariss.org/ 

That is the web site for Amateur Radio on the Space Station.

Periodically the Space Station transmits slow scan TV images. The next event runs from the 11th to the 18th of November. A series of twelve images celebrating amateur radio in space will be transmitted.

The images will be transmitted on 145.800.

What you need: not much actually. One 2 meter receiver. Some sort of antenna capable of receiving the pictures. Some sort of SSTV program to decode that awful noise. A basic computer with some sort of microphone will help. Obviously the more sophisticated your equipment the better you will do.

A satellite tracking program will help so you can find out where the space station is and when it will be where you are.

The space station goes round the earth every 90 minutes.

Please give it a go.

Thank you. 73 from,

Stan - VK3BOT

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