[amsat-bb] ARISS SSTV--This Weekend

[ka3hdo at gmail.com]

All,

 

The ARISS team expects that a second SSTV transmission event will occur from
ISS this weekend. 

 

ARISS Russia team member Sergey Samburov, RV3DR, worked with the mission
control center flight controllers to schedule in ISS crew member time to
configure the JVC Kenwood radio to support SSTV operations in the Service
Module.  SSTV setup is expected to start around 8:45 UTC on February 15 and
conclude around 17:25 UTC on February 17.  These dates/times are
expectations and may vary.

 

The ARISS team wanted to give the community another opportunity to downlink
the SSTV images we developed for you given the weak signal situation that
occurred last weekend.  For clarity, these will be the same 12 images that
were downlinked last weekend.

 

As a reminder, you can get the latest SSTV information on the ARISS SSTV
Blog Spot:   <http://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/>
http://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/  Once received, Images can be posted and
viewed by the public at
<http://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php>
http://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php   And you can
receive a special SSTV ARISS Award for posting your image. See
<https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/sstv/> https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/sstv/.  For
simplicity, we have added a new tab for SSTV, under general contacts, on the
ARISS web site  <http://www.ariss.org> www.ariss.org

For those that are asking, we are still not totally clear what caused the
issue last weekend.  We believe it may have been either a loose feedline
cable or an antenna switch that did not fully engage. Once the crew reset
the system and checked the cabling and switches, the radio system started to
perform nominally.

 

Enjoy!!

 

73,  Frank, KA3HDO

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Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO
ISS Ham Radio Program Manager & PI
ARISS International Chair
AMSAT V.P. for Human Spaceflight Programs