ISS SSTV active on 145.800 MHz FM in April

The ISS will be transmitting images for a couple of days in April - more details at: ISS SSTV active on 145.800 MHz FM in April | Southgate Amateur Radio News

Although the ISS transmits data signals all the time, the sending of pictures usually only happens a couple of times a year.

On the dates in April (2nd and 3rd), I'll be in transit between Myanmar and Laos, but parked up for exactly those two nights at the salubrious Miami Hotel, on Sukhumvit Road.

The ISS will be 'visible' for about 10 minutes as it passes over Bangkok around midnight.

To receive and decode the picture data, all that is needed is a simple half-wave dipole antenna, a 'dongle' USB radio receiver and the free software to decode the data, all of which I have already.

Therefore, if you are staying at the Miami Hotel that night with your 'rent-for-the-night girlfriend or ladyboy(!), please don't worry if some weird, eccentric British guy erects his .. er .. antenna by the swimming pool around midnight, and proceeds to listen to a load of beeps coming from his laptop.....