Current Status of ISS Stations

as of 01/13/2021

​Columbus Module radios:
  • IORS (Kenwood D710GA) – STATUS - Cross Band Repeater V/u (145.990 - {67 Tone} up/ 437.800 down) is Active. 
    • To support EVA on Jan 27 - system will be powered off Jan 26and return to service Jan 28.
    • System supporting USOS school events.
    • Next mode change [VHF packet system (145.825)] targeting late Jan or early Feb.


Service Module radios:
  • Kenwood D710E – STATUS - Radio usually off.
    • Occasionally supporting Russian scheduled voice contacts and SSTV.
    • To support EVA on Jan 19 - system will be powered off Jan 18 and return to service Jan 20.

For up-to-the-minute reports of station status as reported by active hams around the world, refer to the ISS-FM and ISS-DATA lines on the AMSAT OSCAR Satellite Status page.


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Astronaut Peggy Whitson, Expedition 5 Flight Engineer, holds one of the Amateur Radio antennas prior to installation on the ISS. The antenna is one of a series of four which were clamped on handrails around the Russian Service Module (Svesda). This was done during two different EVA's conducted by Russian cosmonauts in January and in August 2002.