SATCOM refers to the large field of satellite communications. Typical activitivies include listening to commercial satellites, two-way voice and data communication, decoding of images and many more.
Several times a year the ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) team is setting up SSTV (Slow Scan Television) events where images are transmitted from the ISS down to earth for reception by eager SATCOM enthusiasts. Those events…
While there’s plenty of ham radio software available for Windows you can easily find yourself out of luck if you are a Linux-running radio fiend. On Windows you can easily decode SSTV images with MMSSTV. This article describes how to…
There are many ways to receive SSTV images transmitted by the International Space Station. From a simple hand-held radio with a rubber ducky antenna to sophisticated setups with automatically guided high-gain directional antennas there are many options how to receive…
On Sunday, 20th February 2022 ARISS Europe has conducted an experiment using the ISS cross-band repeater to transmit digitally encoded SSTV images. The down-link frequency of the ISS cross-band repeater is 437.800 MHz FM. Images have been encoded using KG-STV…
Several times a year the ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) team is setting up SSTV (Slow Scan Television) events where images are transmitted from the ISS down to earth. The SSTV signal can be received with a conventional hand held radio…