Philippine Amateur Radio Association Inc. (PARA / DX1PAR)
Philippine Amateur Radio Association Inc. (PARA / DX1PAR)
On 30 July 2018, there was a scheduled SSTV transmission from the International Space Station from 1600 UTC to 1930 UTC . It passed near the Philippines at around 1647 utc to 1652 utc, a short 5 minute or so window which enabled me to receive 2 complete sstv signals.
For my set up , I used my 6 element moxon wire beam fed into an Ic-V80 and a laptop. The digital software I used is MULTIPSK , sstv PD120 format on 145.80 mhz.
Screen shot of the second complete sstv signal from MULTIPSK software display. There are other digital software we can use like MMSSTV , RX SSTV etc, available on line.
If you are interested into the ham activities from the ISS you can follow their schedule from the link, https://amsat-uk.org . They have articles from their site related to ham satellite topics.
Based on the above article, we can look for the station’s orbit and path from the link https://n2yo.com. We can find all the data from this site for a specific date , time and location nearest to our QTH. The orbit and path shows the footprint or the coverage of the signal relative to our location. The screen shot below shows the map and details for a particular pass.
*Note, the time on the table is on local time, so it reads 31 July 2018 00:47 am. The pass orbit map I was able to save above is for another scheduled pass.
