The post has been updated to remove references to "photographic images" and "dedicated to the life and work of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin."

Now all that remains is a reference to a school contact in Russia on the 23rd.

Looks like I and maybe R4UAB jumped the gun in discussing that.

Anyway, there has been talk of an ISS SSTV event at the end of this month, so maybe the 29th is the weekend it will happen.

73, John Brier KG4AKV

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 1:22 PM, John Brier [email protected] wrote:

I believe I shouldn't have sounded so certain in the subject of the email. This is unconfirmed and these events are always tentative due to science experiments or other unexpected more important ISS activities taking precedent.

Check these resources for more certain info:

https://amsat-uk.org/ https://twitter.com/RF2Space http://www.ariss.org/

73, John Brier KG4AKV

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:27 AM, John Brier [email protected] wrote:

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http://bit.ly/2a5nBMM

It looks like the next event will be Saturday July 23rd 2016, probably going all weekend. This is based on a post on the Russian blog by R4UAB. According to Google Translate the event will be “dedicated to the life and work of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.” Google Translate also mentions “voice communication with the Earth,” which is very intriguing.

Can anyone who reads Cyrillic/knows Russian tell me exactly what the part about "voice communication with Earth" means? I want to know if the cosmonauts will be talking to amateur radio operators on the ground. The link to the original blog post is here: http://r4uab.ru/?p=12122

My "ISS SSTV Reception Hints" page is here: https://spacecomms.wordpress.com/iss-sstv-reception-hints/

AMSAT-UK has a similar page here: https://amsat-uk.org/beginners/iss-sstv/

73, John Brier KG4AKV

Yup. Here is a screenshot of the post before the recent edit:

https://twitter.com/johnbrier/status/755468025516683264

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Kenneth Ransom [email protected] wrote:

I see you tweeted that he updated the posting. It appears to now only be about an upcoming school contact with students near the city of Ufa, Russia. No mention of SSTV in this article.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:22 PM, John Brier [email protected] wrote:

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I believe I shouldn't have sounded so certain in the subject of the email. This is unconfirmed and these events are always tentative due to science experiments or other unexpected more important ISS activities taking precedent.

Check these resources for more certain info:

https://amsat-uk.org/ https://twitter.com/RF2Space http://www.ariss.org/

73, John Brier KG4AKV

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 11:27 AM, John Brier [email protected] wrote:

...

http://bit.ly/2a5nBMM

It looks like the next event will be Saturday July 23rd 2016, probably going all weekend. This is based on a post on the Russian blog by R4UAB. According to Google Translate the event will be “dedicated to the life and work of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.” Google Translate also mentions “voice communication with the Earth,” which is very intriguing.

Can anyone who reads Cyrillic/knows Russian tell me exactly what the part about "voice communication with Earth" means? I want to know if the cosmonauts will be talking to amateur radio operators on the ground. The link to the original blog post is here: http://r4uab.ru/?p=12122

My "ISS SSTV Reception Hints" page is here: https://spacecomms.wordpress.com/iss-sstv-reception-hints/

AMSAT-UK has a similar page here: https://amsat-uk.org/beginners/iss-sstv/

73, John Brier KG4AKV

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Thanks Koos,

Yeah, the cosmonauts sometimes get on between SSTV transmissions. They did it over North America in July of 2015 too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0st4GzyZb8&feature=youtu.be&t=265

I'm not aware of them making contacts with people between SSTV transmissions over NA, but I think they have over Russia at least, and maybe also Europe.

73, John Brier KG4AKV

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Koos van den Hout [email protected] wrote:

Quoting John Brier who wrote on Tue 2016-07-19 at 13:22:

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I believe I shouldn't have sounded so certain in the subject of the email. This is unconfirmed and these events are always tentative due to science experiments or other unexpected more important ISS activities taking precedent.

I appreciate your enthusiasm and I really hope there will be amateur radio contacts with the ISS again some day.

In may 2015 I heard Romeo Sierra .. India Sierra Sierra and some language I could not understand (most likely Russian) between SSTV images, audio available via https://idefix.net/~koos/newsitem.cgi/1428870512

                                  Koos van den Hout

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