Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems Competition ESA is presenting a pilot programme on behalf of The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) and is pleased to announce a new outreach initiative aimed at strengthening engagement with the European amateur satellite and…

This is interesting. It seems the ill fated Series 30 will go ahead. The #SSTV transmissions will come from from #RS-38S rather that the #ISS. Transmissions will be on #UHF #70cms and the mode will be #Robot36. Images will be lower resolution, the usual PD120 is 640x496 while Robot36 is 256x120

First lesson in our free on-line virtual classroom Intermediate course completed. Good turn out of students, which is encouraging. Easy trot through Licence Conditions tonight. Next week we start the Technical stuff #AmateurRadio #hamradio #hamr #STEM #UpgradeYourLicence @m1acb.bsky.social

We think it is really good that @arissintl.bsky.social share these interim updates and we wish them well with their investigations

By way of an update, this course will start next week (w/c 24/11/2025). Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the most popular evening and in the event of a tie between Tuesday and Wednesday (or indeed any other day) Tuesday will be the selected course day Still time to register

✉️ [SouthBristolARC-Public] South Bristol Amateur Radio Club - Update #ISS #SSTV Series 30 #ISS #SSTV #sbarc-posts https://SouthBristolARC.groups.io/g/Public/topic/116347305

Update #ISS #SSTV Series 30 Numerous social media reports were quickly received after about 2 hours into the Series 30 that SSTV Transmissions had stopped. ARISS have been investigating this for a couple of days and have been forced to scrub the activation period

Thanks to @arissintl.bsky.social for this update Whilst it is not be what we wanted to hear it is not unexpected. As we said in a previous post any problem that stopped #SSTV from the #ISS for this long was unlikely to be solved in the activity period We hope the root cause can be tracked down

Are you a UK Amateur Radio Foundation Licence holder? Do you want to upgrade to Intermediate? If so you need to join the SBARC on-line virtual classroom Intermediate course starting w/c 24/11/2025 For more information and joining instructions see: www.sbarc.co.uk/news/club-ne... #AmateurRadio

We will keep watching for any updates, but our uninformed opinion is that any problem that keeps #SSTV from the #ISS off the air for this long is probably not going to be resolved before the scheduled activity period expires We hope the technical teams @arissintl.bsky.social can resolve the problem

We will be reviewing our pass predictions and updating our News post following this confirmation of further operational parameters Please keep an eye on www.sbarc.co.uk/news/iss-sst... in case more information is forthcoming Thank you to @arissintl.bsky.social for organising this #ISS #SSTV #HamR

Brilliant, thank you @arissintl.bsky.social Another #ISS #SSTV activity period is almost upon us. See www.sbarc.co.uk/news/iss-sst... for pass predictions over #IO81QK @bigbernie.bsky.social @kingnerd1963.bsky.social @m1acb.bsky.social @sakura-densha.bsky.social #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #STEM

#ISS #SSTV Series 30 You are encouraged to share this post with your friends, acquaintances, colleagues and family by all channels available to you. News posts, such as this, published on the SBARC website are reposted via a number of other channels including social media feeds and our Groups.io…

2025 On-line UK Amateur radio Intermediate Course You are encouraged to share this post with your friends, acquaintances, colleagues and family by all channels available to you. News posts, such as this, published on the SBARC website are reposted via a number of other channels including social…

We have extended our pass prediction table for the #GX4WAW Clubhouse in #IO81qk to reflect this very welcome @arissintl.bsky.social announcement of an extended #ISS #SSTV activity period, the latest educational contacts and the recent orbit reboost www.sbarc.co.uk/news/two-pos... #AmateurRadio

We will rerun the pass predictions for the upcoming #SSTV activity scheduled for 03/10/25 - 06/10/25 to see if this reboost of the #ISS has also affected the passes over the #GX4WAW clubhouse in #IO81qk Check our website for updates probably from 02/10/2025 www.sbarc.co.uk/news/two-pos...

Today the South Bristol Amateur Radio Club were at the former Midsomer Norton South railway station operating #GB0SDR as part of Railways on the Air marking the 200th anniversary of the first passenger train service We had great fun and members will be back on site tomorrow @m1acb.bsky.social

Thanks for the update @arissintl.bsky.social We have updated our Pass Predictions for IO81qk on our website to reflect the advised start time and transmission breaks Any further changes will be reflected there as soon as we can www.sbarc.co.uk/news/two-pos...

Are you ready for some SSTV from space? The next ARISS SSTV weekend will start on Fri. October 3. Series 29 will be 6 images related to Space Week! The event will take a break for a scheduled contact Saturday, see the full schedule in the graphic.

Virtual Foundation Course Success SBARC ran another "virtual classroom" Foundation course during July and August 2025, the first results of the remote invigilated exams are in

Ofcom to Authorise Satellite Connectivity for Standard Smartphones On September 9 2025 Ofcom confirmed that it will move ahead with plans to make the UK the first country in Europe to enable standard smartphones to connect to satellites using mobile spectrum bands.

Two Possible #SSTV Activity Periods From the #ISS are being Scheduled The ARISS team plans two short SSTV activiations in October 2025, each running from Friday to Monday. Participants who receive and submit at least one SSTV image to the gallery can earn electronic award diplomas.

VHF Field Day 2025 – Results Published VHF Field Day 2025 took place over the weekend of 5/7 July 2025. The deadline for log submission was 14 July 2025 and the Contest Committee has since been analysing the logs. See how we got on.

Oooh! More #ISS #HamRadio excitement Much more specialised than the recent #SSTV activity there will be some people with the capability to receive the test signals and report so if you can please do

We think at least one of our members has a certificate but they're keeping it under their hat having made their last Bluesky post on the subject of the Series 28 #SSTV event from the #ISS For anyone else who took part and uploaded to the @arissintl.bsky.social gallery; final call for certificates

This includes any of our members who participated

With the SSTV event finishing yesterday, the ARISS radios are back to "norminal" operation. Enjoy!

It is worth reading fully

At least one of our members is still chasing images despite being on vacation See posts by @g7kna.co.uk

Given that this authored or edited by the ARRL Handbook editor, it is probably going to have a USA bias. But it'll probably translate well enough to be of interest

We can confirm that at least one of our members has received #SSTV images from the #ISS this evening (Monday 14 July 2025) in IO81OK Looking forward to more reception this week Thank you @arissintl.bsky.social #STEM #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #HamR #SpaceRadio #ISS #SSTV

Let's see how other members might fare... #STEM #SpaceRadio #ISS #SSTV #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #HamR #TrySomethingNew

48th International Amateur Radio Exhibition Held over 27 - 29 June 2025 at Messe Friedrichshafen under the banner "Remote Radio - Connecting the World" the organisers have released some preliminary figures from the event

We caught the start time change in an earlier post and have already updated our IO81QK pass predictions at www.sbarc.co.uk/news/ariss-s... We're trying to work one reception period into our current Foundation Course on Wednesday

Thanks to @arissintl.bsky.social for the update, we have noted this change on our website post (www.sbarc.co.uk/news/ariss-s...) and have updated our pass predictions No major change in #IO81QK but we did loose 1 early pass on 14 July 2025. Still plenty of opportunities though #amateurradio #stem

#ARISS #SSTV Activity from the #ISS (14 – 20 July 2025) ARISS has once again organised a SSTV activity period from the ISS. Lasting 7 days, 12 images will be tansmitted on 145.800MHz using PD120

Marvellous, after the rigours of VHF Field Day we can relax with an #ISS #SSTV activity period Keep an eye on the News Posts at www.sbarc.co.uk/news for our pass predictions over #IO81QK. RSS feed available Great work by @arissintl.bsky.social to get this organised

We're on tenterhooks waiting for any updates. Hopefully there's progress; we all like a good #SSTV activity period from the #ISS! Thanks to @arissintl.bsky.social for all the great work they do

Preparations for #VHFFieldDay are moving forward. Access to our usual temporary location has been confirmed and we have access to a new horsebox to be our catering and operating post Briefing at this Thursdays Club meeting plus kit assembly to begin the logistical exercise of getting it all there

The nice people at @arissintl.bsky.social very politely DM'd us to point out that we'd made a typo in our last post about likely pass times over #IO81QK They are, of course, correct the dates should have been 14-07-2025 and 15-07-2025. The times, however, are, at least approximately, correct

This could be quite sane timings over #IO81QK @kingnerd1963.bsky.social @bigbernie.bsky.social @g7kna.co.uk For example 14-06-25 00:09 - 00:16 01:46 - 01:52 20:08 - 20:13 21:44 - 21:50 23:20 - 23:27 15-06-25 00:57 - 01:03 02:36 - 02:37 19:19 - 19:24 20:54 - 21:01 22:31 - 22:38

Brilliant @arissintl.bsky.social news, another SSTV event allowing the reception of images from the #ISS Hopefully @sbarc.co.uk members such as @bigbernie.bsky.social @kingnerd1963.bsky.social and @g7kna.co.uk will pick up on this Pass predictions for IO81QK to follow when we have more details

Day 2 of 2 operating #GB0SBM from #SlatfordBrassMill in #MillsOnTheAir Propagation was against us, only adding ~20 QSOs to our log Rain and storms skirted us and we were packed away before the only major rain event of the day @kingnerd1963.bsky.social @bigbernie.bsky.social @m1acb.bsky.social

Unfortunately mobile phone coverage at our #MillsOnTheAir site is poor, and there is no WiFi available either, so we are not able to "live post" Here are a few pictures from #SaltfordBrassMill on Saturday 10 May 2025

ARISS-Russia #ISS #SSTV#SSTVActivity Period Details on this period seem to be sparse and slightly contradictory but it is believed that ARISS RUSSIA have a short #SSTV activity period running from 12:00UTC on 05/05/2025 possibly through to 12/05/2025. In case this is true we have prepared our usual…

The International Day of Human Spaceflight (#ARISS #ISS #SSTV)

The International Day of Human Spaceflight (#ARISS #ISS #SSTV) Saturday 12 April is the International Day of Human Space Flight. ARISS have created another series of 12 images in their SSTV activity periods entitled "Humans in Space". Can you catch them all?

Happy almost Easter! More #SSTV from the #ISS For our club members, and radio enthusiasts in or close to, IO81qk watch our website newsfeed (www/sbarc.co.uk pick NEWS from the menu) as we will publish our usual pass predictions and hopefully our usual social media alerts when the SSTV is active

We hoped to live post from today's "Airfields on the Air" but being"out in the sticks" we had poor coverage After it took the best part of 2 hours to send our frst post on another platform we dicided to just get on with the radio side of business Flat conditions improved but only 33 contacts

After a quiet period @arissintl.bsky.social have updates on the #FRAM2HAM mission Current launch window is 01:46:50 UTC on 01/04/2025 Tracking oftware will not have this mission in the defaults, TLE are available at www.ariss.org/keps.html Orbit should be established by 03:58 UTC on 01/04/2025