ISS SSTV this time from A6 UAE

This time I managed to decode the SSTV signal from the 21st floor balcony of our hotel room here in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It's been very hazy today but a reasonably solid signal from the ISS. The local time was around 5.30pm and I used the ID-51 again.

For information on the historic image click here.

Australian pricing and release date for the IC-9700!

Strictlty Ham have released the price and expected arrival date of the long-awaited Icom IC-9700.

QUOTE:-

The price for the new IC-9700 in Australia will be $2495.00. Availability will be around the end of April 2019.

RF Solutions now have it listed at $2475.00 with the same expected delivery time frame.

This is much cheaper than I expected and very tempting.....

Wi-Fi on international flights

Some international flights now come with Wi-Fi. 20mb for 2 hours is free with Emirates. Enough for What's App and APRSdroid!

ISS SSTV reception whilst in 7Q MALAWI

We managed a little AR activity in Africa!

With just a dual band handheld (ID-51) with a standard anntena and two free android apps installed on my phone I managed to decode some SSTV from the International Space Station. The apps used were the Robot36 - SSTV Image Decoder and the ISS Detector Satellite Tracker.

At about 8.30pm on the 10th February from the mountains of  Zomba in Malawi we decoded the following image.

And just to make it official