FW: [illinoisdigitalham] Slow Scan TV from ISS planed for October 2008

Fri Sep 5 18:23:23 PDT 2008

This is for those of you who are into AMSAT or ISS stuff..

Evans

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Subject: [illinoisdigitalham] Slow Scan TV from ISS planed for October 2008

ISS Amateur Radio Status: September 5, 2008
By Miles Mann WF1F,

Slow Scan TV from ISS planed for October 2008

MAREX-MG News www.marexmg.org
Manned Amateur Radio Experiment

Hello all, Great news.

I have recently returned from the ARISS meeting in Moscow (august 
2008).
During the meeting we received details on Richard Garriott's upcoming
mission. Below is a joint memo from ARISS regarding Garriott's 
mission.

Richard Garriott:

On Oct 12, 2008, Space flight participant Richard Garriott will launch
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on his way to the International Space
Station. After docking with the ISS on Oct 14, he will spend 9 days
conducting experiments and doing extensive photography of the Earth.
Since he is also a licensed amateur radio operator (W5KWQ), he will be
making several school contacts, talking with operators on the ground 
and
transmitting Slow Scan Television images.

The standard downlink of 145.800 will be used for voice contacts, 
school
contacts and SSTV transmissions. Anyone with a FM receiver capable of
monitoring the 145.800 MHz downlink can receive audio and SSTV images.
The standard voice uplink frequencies of 145.200 for ITU Region 1
(Europe, Africa and Russia) and 144.490 for ITU regions 2 & 3 (N.
America, S. America, Southern Asia, Australia) will be used. 
Free software to decode the SSTV image tones is available online. 
Additional info on SSTV operations is available at:
http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/howtouseiss.html
<http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/howtouseiss.html> 

Ground stations are encouraged to capture as many of the transmitted
SSTV images and forward them to the ARISS team at ARISS-
SSTV at amsat.org <mailto:SSTV%40amsat.org> .
After you receive an image, please rename the images using the 
following
format, (All Lower case letters). All dates and times must be in 
UTC. 

Year 08, Month 10, Day 14, (UTC time), Call sign, 
(optional Short text description) .JPG

Example: 
0810141905wf1f.jpg
or
0810141905wf1fgreatlakes.jpg
If you are not a licensed amateur operator, just place your initials
after the time (0607311905abc.jpg)

We would also like to know the following information in your email:
Name or Call sign
Country / State
Receiver
Software decoding tool
Elevation or range of ISS when you decoded the image.

The best image received for a given time period will be posted to
http://www.issspacecam.org/ <http://www.issspacecam.org/> 
and
www.marexmg.org

Additional information about Richard Garriott's flight and activities
are available at:
http://www.richardinspace.com/ <http://www.richardinspace.com/> 
http://www.challenger.org/ <http://www.challenger.org/> 
http://www.ariss.org/ <http://www.ariss.org/> 

If you do not have a tracking program, here is a live link to NASA 
that
will show you where ISS is located.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html
<http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html> 

Pictures of the Amateur Radio station on the International Space
Station.

http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/radiohardware.html
<http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/radiohardware.html> 

Slow Scan TV:
The Marex Slow Scan TV project, SpaceCam1 was activated for a few 
weeks
in August 2006. We hope to see some new images in October 2008

http://www.marexmg.org/imagessstv/SpaceCamImages1.htm
<http://www.marexmg.org/imagessstv/SpaceCamImages1.htm> 

Marexmg Web page
http://www.marexmg.org <http://www.marexmg.org> 

73 Miles WF1F MAREX-MG

Until we meet again

DOSVIDANIYA Miles WF1F