An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Hudson Memorial School, Hudson, NH on 07 Dec.

The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 18:48 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds.

The contact will be direct between NA1SS and N1FD. The contact should be audible over the U.S. state of New Hampshire and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

Happy with the Oct 2018 SSTV event made possible by ARISS.

It does take tons of money to take part of the action.
A very old laptop (2002) and an RTL-SDR dongle and a homemade antenna are the only equipment needed to receive nice pictures from the ISS. Software is open source and free to download.

Thanks ARISS and all who made this happen.

ARISS News Release No. 18-12
Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
aa4kn@amsat.org
ARISS SSTV Joins with NASA On The Air for a Special Event
Oct. 19, 2018:
Amateur Radio OnThe International Space Station (ARISS) is planning a very special Slow Scan TV event currently scheduled to start October 27 about 10 am UTC. Helping to support the event will be NASA’s Space, Communication and Navigation (SCaN) Dept.

If you have missed APRS and packet radio from ISS (as ARISS has), you'll be happy to hear that a replacement system is on its way. When the packet module aboard ISS died in late 2017, the ARISS hardware team was heavily involved in design and safety certification of the new Interoperable Radio System (IORS). After basic troubleshooting and a few attempts to revive the failed module, we decided to dedicate our time to IORS and get it - with its packet and other capabilities - aboard ISS as soon as possible.

MAI will have a #SSTV experiment run starting at 16:00 UTC on July 30 and powered down at 19:30 UTC. The next day (July 31), the system will be active from 13:25-19:15 UTC. Downlink should be on the traditional 145.80 MHz frequency. Mode will likely be PD120.

Am happy to see ISS still transmitting SSTV Images. I received ISS SSTV Image from Rajkot (Gujarat) India, it was overhead pass of 75 deg here at ML52jh

my pass details was as under:

Dt: 8 July 2018
19:27 UTC
AOS: 218 deg
Max ele 75 deg
LOS: 40 deg

Tnx & 73's
VU2EXP
Rajesh Vagadia
Rajkot (Gujarat) India
www.qrz.com/db/vu2exp

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ARISS has received several reports stating that the packet system on ISS is down. Here is what we know and our current forward plan.

The packet system in the Columbus module started to act up late last week, sending only a beacon. The ARISS team requested a power recycle by the crew, and with that power recycle, the packet system appears to have stop functioning completely. Note that this unit has been on-orbit for 17 years. It was launched on the STS-106 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission in September 2000 and was built, tested and certified for flight about 20 years ago.

How in the world do people schedule a contact with the ISS