According to https://www.ariss.org/ and https://issfanclub.eu/2025/11/09/iss-sstv-series-30-iss-at-25-and-scouts/ the International Space Station (ISS) will be transmitting Slow Scan TeleVision (analogue SSTV) images from Wednesday November 12th from around 1730UTC (around 0230 local time Thursday morning)  to sometime on Thursday November 19^th (i.e. for roughly 7 days) Images will be sent in the PD120 format and will consist of six images celebrating 25 years of the ISS and six images celebrating Scouting (as a result of a delayed JOTA activation). Reception is relatively easy – no need for fancy equipment. A 2m FM radio and antenna, audio cable and PC is all you need to get started – or even get rid of the audio cable and PC and have a go using your smartphone/tablet device. The ISS SSTV transmissions are on 145.800MHz FM.

 

Software (YMMV):

 

For Windows – MMSSTV or MMSSTV-Yoniq (a newer version of MMSTV with added functionality) available from https://hamsoft.ca/ or RX-SSTV from https://www.qsl.net/on6mu/rxsstv.htm.

 

For Linux – QSSTV available from https://github.com/ON4QZ/QSSTV

 

For Mac – Black Cat SSTV (US$24.99) available from https://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/sstv.html or KD6CJI Multiscan 3B SSTV from https://qsl.net/v/ve3elb/KD6CJI-MultiScan3B/

 

For IOS (Apple) – Black Cat SSTV from the App Store

 

For Android – Robot36 (from Apple Play Store)

 

If you want some images sent to test your setup – call up Cameron (VK2RA) on VK2RLE 2m FM repeater or VK DMR TG505 and he’ll see what can be done to assist (given the limited timeframe).

 

Feel free to submit your decoded images to the image gallery at https://ariss-usa.org/ARISS_SSTV/ and once that is done submit for your ARISS SSTV Award (rules are found at https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/sstv/).

 

Pass Prediction Details for Sydney (QF56mb) as follows (correct as at 11th Nov 2025):