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18 Oct, 2008

ISS Voice & SSTV

Posted by: peter In: space

Today turned out to be rather interesting, upon getting up Dad (M3JFM) informed me that there was a ISS pass at around 11:30 UTC, so armed with my Olympus DM-20 digital voice recorder I headed into the shack to record the pass using the FT-7800 and V2000 vertical again. I took the audio out of the speaker jack and put it right into the recorder and left it to record what ever it received

Mean while Dad set out to listen for the ISS using his VX150 handheld and a SOTA 2m 3el beam, to our surprise this time it wasn’t transmitting SSTV but was being manned by one the guys on board! perhaps if I knew before hand I might have tried to get a QSO!

The audio file will be here soon!

After about 6 minutes the pass was over but we had a blast receiving :-) We then caught a later pass around at around 13:48 this time round it was SSTV so after the audio was recorded we fed the audio back into Dads laptop and using HRDs DM780 SSTV decoder we got the following two pictures.

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1 Response to "ISS Voice & SSTV"

1 | Michael G7VJR

October 29th, 2008 at 7:16 pm

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Pete, nice job! That is a cool project - maybe we can do something like this at G6UW for the newly licenced members who joined this year…must discuss it with you…

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Michael G7VJR

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Welcome to the blog of Peter Goodhall, M3PHP who is 22 and a recent graduate after Multimedia Technology (Web Design) at Buckinghamshire New University. I'm keen about all aspects of amateur radio and run the e-learning website HamTests and recently got awarded the RSGB Kenwood Trophy.

I'm also evolved with a number of other amateur radio web applications and currently work as a freelance web developer.