*ARISS News Release No. 24-63*

*Dave Jordan, AA4KN *

*ARISS PR*

*aa4kn@amsat.org aa4kn@amsat.org*

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

*ARISS SSTV Event Scheduled for This Week*

October 8, 2024 — Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) announces an SSTV event to be held this week. The event is scheduled to begin from 1415 UTC to 1600 UTC UTC on Tuesday, October 8. SSTV transmissions will be paused from 0725 UTC to 1450 UTC on Friday the 11th because of the multiple school contacts scheduled for that day. The event shutdown runs from 1410 UTC to 1420 UTC on Monday, October 14. Downlink transmissions will be at 145.800 MHz and the mode is expected to be PD 120. The transmissions will consist of 12 images developed by the students at Southwest State University (SWSU) in Kursk, Russia.

Because the SSTV system has been brought back into operation after a year, it is very important that the user community submit (via the *https://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/ https://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/* web site), their received images allowing ARISS to discern the quality of the system’s operation.

ARISS invites you to use the *https://www.amsat.org/status/ https://www.amsat.org/status/* site to report if you can, or cannot, hear the SSTV signal. It is very important to the operations team that the community report that they are, or are not, hearing transmissions by using the "ISS SSTV" pulldown in the "Submit Report" form below the status page.

The operations team view both the submitted images and at the reception reports on the AMSAT site to give the on-orbit crew updates on how the system is working.

If you are new to SSTV then take a look at the *https://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/faq.php https://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/faq.php* page for some suggestions to get started. A handheld radio and a smartphone, with SSTV decoding software, are enough to capture fun images.

The ARISS team expects to make a special certificate available via the *https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/sstv/ https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/sstv/* site for those who successfully receive at least one image. Please visit that page for more information about claiming a certificate to commemorate your reception report.

Thanks to our user community for participating in ARISS.

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*About ARISS: *

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the ISS. In the United States, sponsors are the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN) and the ISS National Lab—Space Station Explorers. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see http://www.ariss.org.

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