G4WAW: South Bristol ARC

Congress extends ISS and tells NASA to get moving on private space stations We were happy to see the renewed commitment to transition from the ISS."

Read more: arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

ARISS graphic promoting ham radio in commercial space: 'ARISS beyond the ISS' with photos of astronaut Rabea Rogge onboard Fram2 mission (April 2025) smiling in the spacecraft, and the Axiom Mission 4 crew in their suits. Text highlights first new space vehicle ham radio activation in 25 years on Fram2, and Axiom's STEM contacts across all 4 missions. Features ARISS logo and tagline about continuing amateur radio post-ISS era.

ARISS is looking to the future by building commercial space relationships today. We're proud to work with groups like Fram2 and Axiom to continue our amateur radio in human spaceflight mission.

Check the ARISS website for our "Beyond the ISS" article that looks more broadly into our future.

Ground spare demo of ARISS Interoperable Radio System (IORS) – flight-certified ham radio hardware including Kenwood transceiver, antennas, and connectors – ready as a proven backup comms solution for future commercial space stations beyond the ISS. #ARISS #HamRadio #Space"

ARISS offers future human spaceflight missions proven flight certified hardware. This functions as backup comms for emergencies, communications for crew morale, and space based learning experiences.

Read our Beyond the ISS article on the ARISS website for more.

NASA's SLS rocket with Orion spacecraft on the launch pad during February 2026 Artemis II rollout. Graphic promotes ARISS beyond the ISS: AREX project to track Artemis II telemetry via amateur radio, in partnership with AMSAT and NASA SCaN for future Moon and Mars missions.

Artemis II could launch as early as April 1, no fooling! Radio amateurs from ARISS and AMSAT will be working with NASA SCaN to track the radio emissions of the space craft.

We call that AREx, and it's one of the ways ARISS is looking beyond the ISS. More on our website.

Good luck to @arissintl.bsky.social in this testing of the Service Module Radio

We presume, without any knowledge of the actual problem, that this is to see if the issues that stopped the last SSTV event and have kept the Service Module Radio off air are limited to just the VHF side of the radio

Although it isfrustrating when things don't go to plan we wish @arissintl.bsky.social every success in their efforts to repair the Service Module radio and thank them for their continued perseverance and cooperation with the ISS team's many competing demands

These updates are always valuable

We would like to wish good luck in the software restoration and hope for the return of not only the default Packet/APRS functionality but also the prospect of future SSTV events

We understand the Service Module Radio is a Kenwood TM-D710E and is usually used for Packet/APRS on 145.825MHz

It is also used for SSTV transmissions on 145.800MHz

The last SSTV transmissions were cut short due to equipment problems, hopefully the repairs will allow the scheduling of future SSTV

GB125LWS Callsign Page GB125LWS personal biography

We believe the Lizard Wireless Station's original callsign was LD later changed to MLD and then GLD.

GB125LWS is a modern #AmateurRadio Special Event callsign being operated by the team at the Lizard Wireless Station and the Cornish Radio Amateur Club

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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

Update #ISS #SSTV Series 30 By Andy (G7KNA) 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 mailing lists. These external services may alter the formatting or layout of the original News Post. If you want to see this News Post in its original form please visit the SBARC website News page and follow the link or links to the story or stories of your choice. Series 30 SSTV: ISS at 25 and Scouts Update ARISS (@arissintl.bsky.social) posted at 19:57 on 16/11/2025: Link to original post. After 3 days of troubleshooting the ARISS ops team has determined SSTV Series 30 can not continue. Please follow ARISS social for updates on repair and future SSTV events. Original Post Information SSTV Series 30: Scrubbed The ARISS Radio in the Service Module used for SSTV is being taken out of service. ARISS SSTV Series 30 started Wednesday 12 November and sent images for about 2 hours before an issue occurred with the radio. Therefore, SSTV Series 30 has ended. Certificates will be available for those capturing the early images if they are uploaded to ariss-usa.org/ARISS_SSTV by 23:59 UTC on Tuesday 18 November 2025 Teams will determine when the next event will occur after additional troubleshooting takes place. The SSTV radio will currently only transmit for 4 seconds at a time. A backup radio, not configured for SSTV, will be put in place to serve several Russian STEM contacts this week.

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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

2025 On-line UK Amateur Radio Intermediate Course There are a number of sources for Foundation training on-line but for the higher licence classes there is a much smaller selection of available courses. South Bristol ARC are able to offer an on-li…

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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

We often use an SSTV demonstration if we're invited to host a radio activity session.

Use an FT817 as the Tx and a SDRPlay RSP1A as the Rx on different sides of the room.

People are always amazed when the picture appears at the other end, yet it's comparitively simple and reliable.

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

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#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 mailing lists. These external services may alter the formatting or layout of the original News Post.

#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

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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

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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

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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

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The Space Week SSTV Event, Series 29, begins on October 3, 2025, featuring 6 images transmitted from the ISS on 145.800 MHz using PD120 encoding. Transmissions occur in two windows for a school event, with tentative times: - **First Window**: Oct 3-4, Start Fri 14:00 UTC (10:00 AM Eastern), End Sat 10:00 UTC (6:00 AM Eastern). - **Second Window**: Oct 4-6, Start Sat 11:00 UTC (7:00 AM Eastern), End Mon TBD. The same images will be sent in both windows.

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