Last night I got a few odds and ends together and set everything up to receive slow scan television (SSTV) from the International Space Station (ISS).
SSTV is a fancy way of saying sending images via radio. Richard Garriott, A visitor to the space station brought and setup the sstv equipment. every five minutes it sends an image down.
I wasn't sure if the low tech antenna setup that I made would actually perform well enough to receive an adiquate signal to decode a decent image.
On this mornings pass I received these two images:
The first, was while the ISS was nearly directly over virginia, and was only approx 250 miles away.
The second image was when the ISS was nearly setting to our north, so it was somewhere over the New England states. Things were getting pretty scratchy, I am rather surprised that the image was even recognizable.
This was super cool!
de KI4AOA 73's
SSTV is a fancy way of saying sending images via radio. Richard Garriott, A visitor to the space station brought and setup the sstv equipment. every five minutes it sends an image down.
I wasn't sure if the low tech antenna setup that I made would actually perform well enough to receive an adiquate signal to decode a decent image.
On this mornings pass I received these two images:
The first, was while the ISS was nearly directly over virginia, and was only approx 250 miles away.
The second image was when the ISS was nearly setting to our north, so it was somewhere over the New England states. Things were getting pretty scratchy, I am rather surprised that the image was even recognizable.This was super cool!
de KI4AOA 73's
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