In the past they have done week long SSTV events, often over the Christmas / New Year period. They haven't had a long one in a while as the SSTV unit was malfun

In the past they have done week long SSTV events, often over the Christmas / New Year period. They haven't had a long one in a while as the SSTV unit was malfunctioning, but just a couple of weeks ago they did a successful test so I think they might do another long one soon. The broadcasts are very loud and you can pick them up with a basic hand-held radio using the provided antenna. If anybody's interested, get a radio capable of listening to the 2m amateur band (specifically 145.8 MHz), a satellite tracker app (eg. Look4Sat for Android) and preferably a way to record what you hear. Later you can decode the transmission with a program like MMSSTV or QSSTV. You can decode it live but I feel safer getting a good recording. The ARISS-SSTV images blog [0] is what I check to see when an event is coming up. Bit of trivia is that the SSTV unit was brought up to the ISS by (or at least with) Richard Garriott, who created Ultima and sent out some of the first SSTV images. [0] https://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/ https://ariss-sstv.blogspot.com/