Current Status of ISS Stations

as of 11/20/2020

​Columbus Module radios:
  • IORS (Kenwood D710GA) – STATUS - VHF packet system (145.825) is active.
    • Radio planned to be powered off on November 30 to support COL module GFI testing. 
    • System supporting USOS school events.
    • Next mode change (cross band repeater) targeting early December.


Service Module radios:
  • Kenwood D710E – STATUS - Radio usually off.
    • Occasionally supporting Russian scheduled voice contacts and SSTV.
    • MAI SSTV event targeting Dec 1 and 2. Details at ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/

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.