ARISS and SSTV

Well,

Over Christmas and New Year, ARISS (Thats Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) have been transmiting some Slow Scan Television to commemerate the year 2024.

The transmissions are on 145.800 using mode PD120 and I left my copy of  RXSSTV running to see what I could capture.

I used the SatTrack part of Ham Radio Delux to track and calculate the upcoming passes of the ISS.

I captured quite a few images, none are perfect - but neither is my RX setup. I'm not tracking the ISS with the antennas, not are they pointing up!

I uploaded my images to the ARISS website and received a nice certificate:

Fun, don't you think?

SSTV - though a Satellite?

Well,

Been playing some more with my Es'Hail-2 setup.

I noticed yesterday some SSTV signals on the band from Mauritius; I've not used SSTV before so I installed MMSSTV and have since had some QSOs.

I've annotated some images and created some templates in the software to enable reports and the like to be exchanged:

It's really quite fun!