Space Station SSTV Active

The Amateur Radio station on the International Space Station (ISS) was sending Slow Scan TV pictures on Monday Aug 3.

On the AMSAT Bulletin Board Roland PY4ZBZ reports receiving a picture which he has made available at
http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/satelite/200908030941.jpg

Other pictures received on Monday by Radio Amateurs in the Americas and Europe can be seen on the ARISS SSTV gallery at http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/SSTV/

The Kenwood VC-H1

The SSTV transmissions are part of the MAI-75 (Moscow Aviation Institute) experiments taking place on August 3 and 4.

The VC-H1 SSTV camera unit will run in auto mode (Robot-36 transmitting once every 3 minutes) and should be operational on 145.800 MHz from approximately 0800-1600 UTC each day.

Information on the MAI-75 experiment is available at http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/
researches/education-26.html

PY4ZBZ ISS SSTV images
http://www.qsl.net/py4zbz/satelite/
sstv_via_sat.htm#2

How to access the ISS Slow Scan TV
http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/howtoisssstv.html

Free Slow Scan TV Software MMSSTV uses your PCs Soundcard http://mmhamsoft.amateur-radio.ca/

ISS Fan Club http://www.issfanclub.com/

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