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Wrapping Up the ISS SSTV Event

ISS SSTV Card 12

All told, I managed to work six ISS passes during the event and grab four images (some of them were repeats). Here are the best versions of each:   It still blows my mind that you can build an antenna…

ARISS SSTV Award

ARISS SSTV Award

One of the super fun things about amateur radio is the number of contests (with awards!) that are constantly going on. Here’s my copy of the ARISS SSTV Award, which I received for successfully receiving and decoding some of the…

Participating in the ISS SSTV 20th Anniversary Event

The International Space Station image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:International_Space_Station_after_undocking_of_STS-132.jpg is in the Public Domain.

Every so often the ISS broadcasts Slow Scan Television (SSTV). There’s a special holiday / 20th anniversary of Amateur Radio on the ISS (ARISS) event happening right now! On Christmas Day it was raining / snowing and I tried capturing…

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