ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.23-69

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

2023 Year End SSTV Event!

December 26, 2023 — AmateurRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) announces a special SSTVexperiment to be held this week.  The ISS Voice Repeater willbe our downlink and several ARISS selected ground stations around the worldwill serve as SSTV uplink stations.  Two special images will be sent on437.800 MHz using PD120 formatting.

This limited experiment will be conducted on several passes over Europe,Australia and the USA between Wednesday Dec. 27 to Saturday Dec. 30, 2023.

We hope radio enthusiasts will download the images and follow along with theevent.  We appreciate all hams holding off from using the repeater forvoice contacts during the event.  Watch www.ariss.org and ARISS social forpass information and more beginning on Tuesday Dec. 26.

About ARISS:

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

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