{"id":4972,"date":"2019-02-17T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/02\/17\/sstv-from-spaaaaace-international-space-station-sends-images\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:09:23","slug":"sstv-from-spaaaaace-international-space-station-sends-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/02\/17\/sstv-from-spaaaaace-international-space-station-sends-images\/","title":{"rendered":"SSTV from SPAAAAACE! International Space Station Sends Images"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The crew on the space station have been transmitting SSTV images. This morning I threw together a receiving system: I used my four element refrigerator tubing quad feeding the an RTL-SDR Dongle with HD-SDR software in the computer. For the SSTV decoding I downloaded a program from Japan: MMSSTV (very nice). To get the signal from HD-SDRto MMSSTV I just plugged a cheap little electret computer mic into the computer and taped it to the speaker. <\/b><\/div>\n

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At 0838 local today ISS flew almost directly over me. I aimed the quad south-west, and almost as soon as it was above the horizon very strong signals started pouring in. They produced the first picture (above). <\/b><\/div>\n

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ISS went silent as it passed over head. I swung the quad to the north-east hoping to catch another image as the station moved away. That is the second image (below). You can see that I was losing the signal about halfway through. <\/b><\/div>\n

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The distortion in the video image may be the result of me manually adjusting the receiver for Doppler shift. <\/b><\/div>\n
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Here is a little video of the action in the shack during the first half of the pass. <\/b><\/div>\n