[OFARC] SSTV postcards from space

[Ralph]

I noticed the ARRL news item below last week and have been monitoring 
the downlink frequency of 145.800 mhz FM

the software MMSSTV version i have does not include PD120 format and I 
have not yet found an updated version.

my other program, QSSTV, does include PD120

I have a vertically oriented j-pole for 2meters located only 8 feet 
above the ground.

In the past 24 hours I have decoded 3 SSTV images from ISS..... one of 
them reasonably clear.

this web link shows the next pass visible from Houston to be 0258 CST 
tomorrow morning.

give it a tray and see if you can get a postcard from space....


Ralph

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    Commemorative ARISS Slow-Scan TV Transmissions Set

12/24/2019

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (*ARISS* 
<http://www.ariss.org/>) will support slow-scan television (SSTV) 
transmissions worldwide in memory of cosmonauts Alexei Leonov, Valery 
Bykovsky, and Sigmund Jaehn. Transmissions are scheduled to start at 
1100 UTC on December 28 and continuing until 1820 on January 1. 
Transmissions will take place on 145.800 MHz and in the PD 120 format, 
using the call sign RS0ISS. The Polish ARISS Team has prepared an 
*award* <https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/sstv/> for participants in the SSTV 
experiment. /— Thanks to Gaston Bertels, ON4WF/

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