Royal Masonic School For Girls contact Tim Peake

on the 11th Feb 2016, students from the Royal Masonic School For Girls in Rickmansworth carried out a scheduled ARISS contact with Tim Peake onboard the ISS, this contact was also the first where Tim Peake turned on and used the HamTV equipment. The official video...

SSTV from the ISS this afternoon

This afternoon it seems the ISS was doing some tests with SSTV on the 145.800 downlink at 15:30z I heard a strong carrier popup then half an  image was sent After this image there was a very strong constant carrier followed by a CW ID and another image. The empty...

Arissat-1 Launched

On the 3th of August during a Russian EVA on the International Space Station the new Arissat-1 satellite was launched after many delays. During the EVA there were problems too with the suspected missing UHF antenna, although people have since been able to use the SSB...
ISS Packet & SO-67

ISS Packet & SO-67

Since being back from the Isle of Arran I’ve been doing a lot of APRS via the ISS, we used APRS while traveling and it was a useful tool for knowing where everyone was and I’ve sort of become hooked just wish there was more activity on 144.800 in the...

12:00 UTC ISS (OR4ISS) Pass Failed QSO with SP7POS

Due to the fact SP7POS was due to have a sheduled QSO with OR4ISS this lunch time I thought, I decided to have a listen sadly the QSO attempt failed but managed to record most of the pass. Audio File for OR4ISS calling SP7POS