[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] SSTV with the International Space Station for a QSL Card

[Sandy Kenyon]

If you capture a SSTV image from the ISS (easy...just receive only with
your HT) this weekend, and upload the image to the ARISS web site (I've
been told its very easy as even low quality pitiful barely readable images
work), you get a QSL card from space! How cool is that! If you were at last
month's club meeting you are ready to go. All that SSTV practice is ready
to pay off.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SSTV/comments/1t5pc2d/ariss_fans_we_are_go_for_sstv_series_32/

How to do this? Using a site like
https://www.astroviewer.net/iss/en/observation.php you can see when and
what direction the ISS will pass overhead.
[image: image.png]
Have your HT or other radio tuned to 437.55mhz, record when the ISS is
overhead and transmitting, get a way to record the audio chirp, then play
the audio into your favorite SSTV secret ring decoder like MMSSTV (there
are many others as well) on your computer. Or if you use a program like
Robot 36 Color (for Android, unknown for IOS) you can get the image
directly. You may need to hold your squelch button.

Then send the image to ARISS, and wait like an excited happy kid to get
your lovely, cool, neat-o-torpedo QSL card from space!

The hyper advanced rocket science kids will tell you to adjust for doppler,
stand on one foot with your elbow at 75 degrees, and offer a live goat to
the Gods of Propagation. Well maybe, but it sort of works without all that.

[image: image.png]

Good luck!

73,
Sandy KQ4DNE
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