ARLA/CLUSTER: ISS SSTV voltou a estar activa este fim de semana

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

 ISS SSTV active again

On Saturday, September 6, the ISS Slow Scan Television (SSTV)
experiment was activated from the Russian Service Module on the
International Space Station on 145.800 MHz FM

On August 27, 2014 a test using the Kenwood TM-D710 transceiver and a
new cable had been carried out. It was not entirely successful; a
carrier was transmitted but no SSTV audio tones were heard.

On September 6 the earlier issue was rectified and radio amateurs were
treated to a day of SSTV transmissions of photographs devoted to the
life and work of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The pictures were
in the PD180 SSTV mode with an additional voice commentary.

Paulo PV8DX contacted AMSAT-UK on Saturday morning with the news that
the SSTV had been turned on. He said: “At the end of the passage (ISS)
in northern Brazil where I live. I heard the sound of early SSTV. So I
went to the WEBSDR in your area [the SUWS WebSDR near London, UK] and
I got two images.”

David Barber G8OQW in Chelmsford, Essex was among those who received
the pictures and sent them to AMSAT-UK. He was using a horizontal Log
Periodic antenna, FUNcube Dongle Pro, SDR# and MMSSTV. David commented
that auto slant correction failed for some reason, this was noticed on
all the other pictures received that day.