Hi All,

ARISS have announced details of the first of the school amateur radio contacts with UK astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI. Tim will be using the special International Space Station (ISS) call sign GB1SS during his 6 month mission.

ARISS has released target dates for the following schools:

• Sandringham School, St Albans between Jan 4-10, 2016
• RMS, Rickmansworth between Feb 8-14, 2016
• Oasis Academy, Brightstowe between Feb 15-21, 2016
• CNS, Norwich between Feb 22-28, 2016

To help promote the tentative December 26th International Space
Station Slow Scan TV event (and another that is planned over the next
few months) I made a new video of an ISS SSTV reception I filmed last
April. I also made an webpage with extensive information, resources,
and hints on receiving ISS SSTV events, including the upcoming ones.

Video: My First Perfect ISS SSTV Image!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7to9uX1sWC4

Webpage: ISS SSTV Reception Hints
https://spacecomms.wordpress.com/iss-sstv-reception-hints/

Below is a text formatted version of the webpage I made

Hello everybody,

Yesterday a short communication from the soyuz to the ISS was heard by myself on 143.625Mhz in FM mode.
Very loud and clear for about two minutes, the next pass they where docked to the ISS so no more comm heard.
Maybe nice to know next time they launch, luckely i guess they did a manual aproach yesterday and needed to communicate.
Very nice to hear them in real time.

Scanner i used is a Yupiteru MVT 7000 in combination with Diamond RH951S antenna.
signal was S 5 till S 7

Amateur radios on ISS will be powered off to support numerous vehicle changes starting Dec 11 at 01:55 UTC and back on Dec 19.

73 David G7HCE

SSTV event being planned for late December 2015. Exact dates TBD...Tweeted on ISS Ham.

Upcoming ARISS Commemorative SSTV Event.

Over the next couple months, ARISS will be celebrating its 15th anniversary of continuous operations on the ISS. An SSTV event is being planned for mid December

73 David G7HCE

Hi Iss Fans !

I am experiencing very weak signals on the 145.825, and I am very confused about it:
I am using a 5/8 vertical antenna with a SDRRTL2 receiver (altenatively an Albrecht portable scanner), which give me good results on terrestrial signals (I am regularly able to decode packet radio signals hundreds of kilometers away, so I don't think my equipment is in fault).

The problem is present with low, medium or high elevation angle !?

Do you have this kind of problem ?

What kind of antenna do you use ?

Thanks for your comments.

73 from F5FIE.

ARISS contact planned for school in Poland

Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at approximately 8.15 UTC, which is 9.15 CEWT, an ARISS contact is planned for Konstanty Ildefons Gałczynski Junior High School in Swietajno, Poland. Amateur radio station LU1CGB, located in Argentina, will operate the contact. The ARISS HAM radio station NA1SS on the board of the International Space Station will be operated by Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS.

Please join us in listening to the ISS contact with participants at
Dragonskolan, Umea, Sweden on Friday December 4.
AOS is anticipated at 10:15 UTC (11:15 CEWT).

The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and LU1CGB in Argentina. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

Upcoming ARISS school contacts. A ARISS educational radio contact is planned with students at Nanasawa Kibounooka Elementary School, Atsugi - JAPAN. The contact is scheduled Wed 2015-decembre the second at 09:33:51 UTC. The contact is DIRECT via 8N1NKSG in Japan, so the Downlink signals will be audible over Japan on 145.800 MHz narrowband FM and via Echolink and other internet website.

at 15 december a ENGLiSH new ham-radio Tim Peake aboard ISS

the #46 mission :

http://i64.tinypic.com/r22o13.jpg

best 73 de Rudy - IW2BSF [ ISS stay tuned ! ]

more info and news about ISS :

http://rodolfo-parisio.jimdo.com/nuovi-articoli-2015/