The International Space Station held another SSTV event during the Winter 2021 break and I was determined to catch all of the images that they would broadcast this time around. They were to be all related to lunar exploration, past, present and future. I had dabbled with receiving SSTV images from the ISS previously, but never really planned for it properly. I did my research and found that all the suitable passes for this event were all early morning passes for each day (ranging from 1 AM to 9 AM).
Armed with my trusty Arrow II satellite antenna, a radio and my smartphone, I headed out morning after morning to collect the 12 images that would be broadcast.
Out of those 12 images, I managed to snag 10 (I missed images 10 & 11). Much better than my two prior attempts and the quality of the images was much better as well. The Arrow II was definitely worth the investment. If you go here you can type my callsign into the search box (see the image on the Amateur Radio page for my callsign) to see all of the images I captured.
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