Also heard the same and the carrier was good signal as seen hear on 9-deg 14:34 UTC pass over Exeter. https://dl.dropbox.com/s/1tmu1xn42s863wk/SSTV%20Carrier%2009-12-2016%201...
Yesterday only one pass with sstv and finished early. Guess there must be some issues and digipeater appears to be off/on 437.525 from yesterdays ARISS shool contact frequency but very weak packet signal. Hope sstv comes back again soon.

Nothing today from Christchurch New Zealand at 1828
UTC 9-12-16 which is 0728 in the morning of the
10-12-16 local time.

It might be worth them leaving it on over the 2 days for everyone as appears switching on and off is causing them some issues. It's only worked for just one 15-deg pass over UK yesterday 15:27 UTC and it hasn't worked since. First pass of 9-deg 14:34 UTC over UK today was very strong carrier signal with no sstv modulation. The following pass at 16:05 UTC nothing heard at all not even a carrier so it would appear they maybe having a problem since yesterday when it finished early.

Same here good strong signal on 9-deg 14:34 UTC pass over Exeter/uk but no sstv modulation

The link shows what the MAI-75 is all about and why the orbits are for Moscow.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/benefits/mai_75

So far I have got one perfect picture in Christchurch New Zealand
at 1436 . SSTV is on at the moment on the 8 and 9th on 145.800

I am running a J pole, Mast Head Preamp, FDK Multi 2000 on wide
FM. The program I am using is MMSSTV. The gear is on 24 hours
per day.

Thanks all Murray ZL3MH

You list it as not active but your report says good sstv.

Data IN/OUT and PTT is via the ACC2 13 pin socket on the rear of the TS-2000 connections as shown on page 95 of the Owners Manual and not controlled from the volume knob but is fixed level which can be adjusted in the MENU 50C value.

I would guess that Ik1SLD is using fully tracked switchable high-gain X-yagis with masthead preamps which would be the norm for school contacts.
I use 20 watts into mobile Omni. Last pass here 23.9 deg I heard some packets but mostly it was deaf and didn't hear me at all hope for better on next passes.
Out of curiosity do you use the internal packet of the TS-2000.? As I've found that to be poor on the iss compared to soundmodem and uiss.

Thanks for the reply Dave,
I am curious to know which antenna is used by IK1SLD. I tried with two different antennas without success and not only I cannot hear him, but it did not even listen to me with 50 watts.

Raffaello IZ0QWM

I'm in the southwest of UK and also use TS-2000 in split mode either using HRD or Orbitron for tracking and Doppler for uhf 437.550 with a mobile 2/70 mobile Omni antenna slightly tilted away from the oncoming iss. I do not use the inbuilt tnc but use UISS + Soundmodem via pc soundcard. It's not easy since the switch-over but find 16-45 deg passes assending to the southwest of my location are the best with high overhead passes the worse. I've also tried it with the Arrow-2 2/70 portable yagi antenna but not much better which works just fine on AO-85 and SO-50. Maybe the location of the uhf antenna is being effected by the sheer mass of the body structure on the iss and effecting the radiation pattern especially overhead passes and when moving away.

I'm able to work the iss at times and gating some traffic as well as my own with aprsis32 but it's not easy and not many stations on over Europe as can be seen on http://www.ariss.net/ and i'm guessing others are getting the same problems.

There is an ARISS school contact operated by IK1SLD, located in Casale Monferrato, northern Italy Thursday December 8, 2016 at approximately 15:19 UTC, which is 16:19 CEWT.
It will be interesting with the downlink on UHF 5 watts 437.525 MHz (same radio used for packet digipeater) because SSTV transmissions from the Russian crew will be on 145.800 at the same time.

EA7AFM was active on RS0ISS-1 pms over the Exeter/UK at the time.

06/12/2016 17:06:41

Fm RS0ISS-1 To EA7AFM [17:09:01]
Logged on to RS0ISS's Personal Message System
Fm RS0ISS-1 To EA7AFM [17:09:02]
CMD(B/H/J/K/KM/L/M/R/S/SB/SP/ST/SR/V/?)>