I’m just happy to have the opportunity to do this whole hobby at all and if things were always guaranteed to go as planned, it would just be boring. Figuring stuff out is a big part of the fun.

We are having parallel experiences, Floyd! My 18:30 UTC pass today was nothing, no RF at All. Hopefully those nice Folks up there will Be able to fix things! 73 Mark. KB7WAL

Well said Clint! Kevin W6AAE

Amateur radio aboard the International Space Station is an experiment. And one in a rather unique environment. Yes, amateur radio is involved in the ISS’ “master plan” as a communications

Heard nothing. Max elev. 25 degrees at 18:21Z, FN03. Got some earlier passes.

Nothing in Milwaukee. Brad KC9UQR Sent from Brad's iPod

Thx for the replies. Bummer. It worked marginal yesterday. Bill

I did not hear anything either from Arizona, grid DM43, 52 degree pass. Walter, kd7dny

Nothing here 35mi North of Palm Springs (Yucca Valley). It was straight overhead….Jim K6Cef

Did anyone hear anything on this last pass ? 1811 UTC. It was only Max of 10º from my QTH @CN85 Next pass at 1946 with be Max of 66º. Hope to hear something then. Bill AF7ZA

Great news - thanks!

I use wide band on my 72 with great results. Brad KC9UQR Sent from Brad's iPod

In a previous event, I could not hear any SSTV audio in Wide. I tried Narrow and I could hear it. The reasoning: as I understand it, one of the radios used on the ISS is narrow band so I thought I

Just had a 37 degree pass with 50 mph winds. Got the beginning and end of the pic because the wind blew the wire off my recorder. Low volume. Next pass I will try a preamp and see if it makes a

Just saw this on the ISSFANCLUB.eu website: "ISS SSTV transmissions on Thursday and Friday, April 11/12 had very low audio. Dmitry R4UAB reports the ISS cosmonauts plan to try to fix the issue on

Why did you choose "narrow band?" Have your results with NB been better than Wide in the past? Clint

OK, Mark, then I can check off my new RTL-SDR dongle that came in yesterday as not being the problem (my FunCube Dongle went south on the same day). My last pass was nil; not even RF... Hopefully

It is Yuri's Day / Astronauts' Day in Russia ... appropriate powers-that-be ARE aware of the audio problem ... but between it being a holiday and a weekend - well, we can just hope the audio

The 12:40 pass in Massachusetts is attached. I used narrow band. This is my typical recording using my D72 and Diamond RH77CA with Robot36. I had similar results in a previous event with

That is very interesting, Floyd. I am in the Central United States, New Mexico, and I Experienced the exact same problem You did. At the 01:31 UTC pass here, an almost perfect Overhead pass, I had