The official portrait of the International Space Station's Expedition 72 crew. At the top (from left) are, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin, NASA astronaut and space station Commander Suni Williams, and NASA astronaut and Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore. In the middle row are, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Ivan Vagner and NASA astronaut and Flight Engineer Don Pettit. In the bottom row are, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Aleksandr Gorbunov and NASA astronaut and Flight Engineer Nick Hague. Credit: NASA/Bill Stafford and Robert Markowitz
The recent ARISS Slow Scan Television (SSTV) experiment from the International Space Station took place from Tuesday, October 8, at 16:00 GMT and run until Monday, October 14, at 14:10 GMT. Great interest was shown in the experiment by radio amateurs in the Southern Cape Area, Bloemfontein and Orania, with several participating in the project.
What did the Experiment entail?
"The SSTV transmissions will be made using the amateur radio station in the ISS Service Module. The transmission frequency will be 145.800 MHz (+/- 3.5 kHz Doppler shift) FM, using SSTV mode PD120.
Many FM rigs can be switched been wide and narrow deviation FM filters. For best results you should select the filter for wider deviation FM. Handhelds generally have a single wide filter fitted as standard.
The ISS call-sign will be RS0ISS.
Reports are requested: please send ARISS uploading your decoded pictures in the official ARISS SSTV gallery: https://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/
Useful information to receive the pictures can be found here: https://amsat-uk.org/beginners/iss-sstv/
Follow ARISS on X for official updates during the event https://x.com/ARISS_Intl "
ED - Congratulations to Gerrit ZS1KLO, Rulhof ZS4RM and Zayn ZR3VO in receiving your ARISS SSTV Award. Well done!!
Herewith some images (Click to enlarge) of the radio amateurs that participated in the ARISS SSTV Experiment:
Gerrit ZS1KLO Rheebok, Mosselbaai:
Johan ZS1I Heiderand, Mossel Bay:
I used this ARISS SSTV Event to experiment with Doppler Shift, 2 element Quad Antenna, Nagoya NA-771 Whip Antenna, 1/4 Wave Ground Plane Antenna, Robot36 Software, GPredict and Baofeng UV82 HT. I tried to use the same or similar pass predictions, Az and El for each antenna in KF15bt. Unfortunately the weather was different every time I downloaded an image. None the less a very interesting experiment.
Rulhof ZS4RM, Bloemfontein:
Thys ZS1TBP Heiderand, Mossel Bay:
Zayn ZR3VO, Orania:
Tweet by ARISS - Amateur Radio on the ISS: @ARISS_Intl
Suggestion by ZS1I:
Great PR project for ARISS, Ham Radio and New Radio Amateurs. New interest in space coms in S/Africa. Suggestion: Shorter gaps between TX would be great. Thanks for making this project available.
