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2025-11-03 SSTV ENTHUSIASTS: SERIES 30 SSTV EVENT SOON TO BE UNDERWAY!
Series 30: ISS at 25 and Scouts!
ARISS is celebrating 25 years of the ISS, plus being the first educational payload, AND Scouting! For this new series, there will be six images of ISS at 25, and six images concerning Scouting. The event is planned for Wednesday November 12, around 17:30 UTC, and ending Thursday, November 19 time TBD, with a scheduled school contact in between on November 16, at 14:50 UTC. This page will be updated as more details come.
2025-10-18 Because of two EVAs this week, the JOTA SSTV event planned for this weekend has had to slip into November.
An update to the SSTV event beginning October 3, 2025: There will be a short pause October 4, 2025 from 10:00 UTC to approximately 11:00 UTC in order to accommodate a scheduled student contact. The SSTV event has been extended to October 9. SSTV enthusiasts can capture up to twelve images.
ARISS ANNOUNCES SSTV EVENT TO BEGIN OCTOBER 3, 2025
The ARISS team is working towards two, short, SSTV activations for October 2025. Both of these are expected to start on a Friday and end on the following Monday. Both will be interrupted for a short (~60 minute?) period to accommodate a school contact.
The first is our traditional celebration of the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite in 1957. SSTV activation is tentatively scheduled for sometime on Friday October 3 and to end on Monday October 6th. SSTV would be paused for a short time (~60 minutes?) on Saturday October 4th for a special student voice contact.
The second SSTV campaign is tentatively scheduled to start on Friday October 17, pause (for ~60 minutes?) for a special student contact on Saturday the 18th, and resume until completion on Monday October 20. This interval roughly coincides with the International Scouting Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) and the SSTV image theme is expected to deal with Scouting.
ARISS expects to offer separate electronic award diplomas for participants who receive at least one image from a campaign and submit it to the SSTV gallery.
Tentative times are:
2025-10-03 1140 UTC start
2025-10-04 1000 UTC pause for a school event
2025-10-04 1100 UTC resume
2025-10-06 TBD UTC stop
ARISS ANNOUNCES SSTV EVENT TO BEGIN JULY 14, 2025
July 13, 2025 — Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) announces an SSTV event to be held next week. The event is scheduled to begin on Monday, July 14 around 09:45 UTC / 5:45 AM ET and to end Sunday, July 20 around 18:00 UTC / 2:00 PM ET. Down-link transmissions will be at 145.800 MHz FM and the mode is expected to be PD 120.
The transmissions will consist of 12 images featuring the Apollo Soyuz mission and STS 51F which pioneered SSTV operation on Shuttles. If you are a past participant in our SSTV events, please note that we will be using our newly updated gallery at https://ariss-usa.org/ARISS_SSTV/ .
You must submit your decodes and your request for an award certificate within 72 hours after SSTV event transmissions end. Certificates are delivered via email (watch your spam folder).
SSTV shaping up for July event
June 26, 2025 - An ARISS SSTV event will begin no earlier than July 14 with the expectation that the event will run through the weekend into the beginning of the following week. This is all subject to AX-4 schedule and other operational considerations. The subject will be the 50th anniversary of the ASTP and the 40th anniversary of STS-51F. STS-51F was the second SAREX flight and had the first use of SSTV in human spaceflight.
Expedition 73 - ARISS Series 27
May 5, 2025 - An ARISS-Russia SSTV event is beginning today at 12:00 UTC. This is a commemoration of a regional holiday. Monitor 145.800 MHz for transmissions until May 12 at 18:00 UTC. The SSTV gallery at ariss-usa.org/ARISS_SSTV will be open for submissions and certificate applications.
Expedition 72 - ARISS Series 26 Humans in Space" mission
April 11-16, 2025 – Humans in Space
April 12 is the International Day of Human Spaceflight so, what better theme for the April 11-16 Slow Scan TV transmissions.
Start: Friday, April 11 1700 GMT
End: Wed, April 16 1430 GMT
Frequency: 145.800 MHz FM (+/-3.5 kHz Doppler Shift)
The callsign is RSØISS, frequency is 145.800 MHz, and the mode is PD120. (Transmission cycle 2 minutes on, 2 minutes off)
Send your decoded images to ARISS in the “Series 26” area and apply for an award at: Welcome to the ARISS SSTV Gallery
Once submitted, clicking on the dedicated button enables application for the official ARISS SSTV award.The certificate request portion of the SSTV gallery will be turned off at about 23:59 UTC Saturday April 19. You can still submit images after that but will not have the option to request an electronic certificate, so get your requests in early.
Good luck everyone!
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To support everyone interested in such events, the European Space Agency released tutorials about how to receive pictures transmitted over amateur radio by the International Space Station: you can find them on https://issfanclub.eu/2024/11/08/esa-tips-how-to-get-pictures-from-the-international-space-station-via-amateur-radio-2/
It’s always possible to receive the ISS SSTV signal by using the WebSDR at the Goonhilly Earth Station, the audio can then be fed into your PC or Smartphone SSTV App https://vhf-goonhilly.batc.org.uk/
Follow @ARISS_intl on X for official updates, since changes can occur.
Reminder, the images are sent on a (roughly) 2 minutes on, 2 minutes off schedule. So if nothing is heard, give it 2 minutes!
Many FM rigs can be switched been wide and narrow deviation FM filters. For best results you should select the filter for wider deviation FM. Handhelds generally have a single wide filter fitted as standard.
Predictions for the ISS pass times are available at https://www.amsat.org/track/
Useful information on receiving the pictures and links for Apps to display the pictures can be found here: https://amsat-uk.org/beginners/iss-sstv/
[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]
The SSTV blog post is no longer being updated. Click on the following link to read about past SSTV events ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/
It’s always possible to receive the ISS SSTV signal by using the WebSDR at the Goonhilly Earth Station, the audio can then be fed into your PC or Smartphone SSTV App https://vhf-goonhilly.batc.org.uk/
Follow @ARISS_intl on X for official updates, since changes can occur.
Reminder, the images are sent on a (roughly) 2 minutes on, 2 minutes off schedule. So if nothing is heard, give it 2 minutes!
Many FM rigs can be switched been wide and narrow deviation FM filters. For best results you should select the filter for wider deviation FM. Handhelds generally have a single wide filter fitted as standard.
Predictions for the ISS pass times are available at https://www.amsat.org/track/
Useful information on receiving the pictures and links for Apps to display the pictures can be found here: https://amsat-uk.org/beginners/iss-sstv/
[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]
The SSTV blog post is no longer being updated. Click on the following link to read about past SSTV events ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/
