IT CAN BE VERY SIMPLE TO RECEIVE!
Images can be received by merely holding your radio next to your smartphone ...
Black Cat Systems' CQ SSTV for the iPhone
AMSAT-UK article on starting out in SSTV ops.
Amateur Radio on International Space Station
AMSAT
North America
I never thought it could be so easy ...
Many of the images on this page were captured with a VERY basic setup: a Yaesu FT-60R radio programmed to 145.800mHZ, a simple tape measure beam, and a great $3 iOS app from Black Cat Systems entitled "CQ SSTV."
If the setup looks and sounds familiar, it's the same radio and antenna used to speak with an astronaut on Field Day 2014 who was aboard the ISS at the time.
Receiving beautiful SSTV images from the ISS was really painless! I merely held my iPhone near my HT's speaker, set the app to the PD120 mode (the mode will be announced wuith the schedules), and received clean graphics immediately.
The link above to the AMSAT-UK has setups for other computer operating systems.
I didn't think there was too much left in the amateur world to get me as excited ... but I was wrong!
MAI-75 SSTV activity planned for Aug 4 and 5
The final crew schedule for the week of Aug 3-9 was released recently and it showed a MAI-75 activity scheduled for Aug 4 and 5. This is soon after the Space X Demo-2 undock so changes to that event could impact the schedule.
The current dates and times of the activity are as follows:
Aug 4 (12:25-18:10 UTC) is setup and Day 1 operations.
Aug 5 (11:15-18:45 UTC) is Day 2 operations and close out.
This is the Moscow Aviation Institute SSTV experiment that is activate for orbital passes over Moscow, Russia. It has traditionally been PD-180 or PD-120 and transmitting on 145.800 MHz.
-July 27th, 2020 - ARISS Blog