SSTV

Just managed to receive a fairly good image from the closest ISS pass. This started as it crossed the UK and continued as it passed onwards to Germany. There were a few dropouts (I run the FTM100DE with an open squelch for these) but all in all this pic is better than any that I managed from the last series. The transceiver is connected to a white stick 2m/70cm colinear in the loft and I really need to stop being lazy and set the Arrow up for these passes.

Not done very well at all with the current ISS SSTV event that runs from the 21st June, or with the previous event a few weeks before. So far, I have not one single decent image to show for it. Not sure why exactly, nothing has changed here. All I can think is the station transmits earlier, completing as it approaches the west coast of Ireland and so it does not start the next one until it is south-east from me. But I can't remember how it went last time so not sure if that is even a thing. Anyway, I submitted the 'best of the worst' image, which at least has a complete top and tail, but only a fuzz for the actual image of whatever it should have been. I could crack out the Arrow and go dancing in the garden. Maybe next time...

I managed a couple of rather poor grabs from the ISS SSTV event of the 28th and 29th January. Nothing to write home about, my setup is not suitable being simply a loft mounted colinear. However, this one fragment was interesting because when received the ISS was over the middle of Poland. Not too bad for around 800 miles or so. In fact, I received another fragment after this... And two further grabs on the 29th, the first over the English channel and the second as it passed over Poland.