SSTV from the ISS

Several of our club members have been able to receive excellent SSTV images over the weekend from the ISS as it speeds over above our heads. Details of future SSTV events can be found at

At the Club this week (30th September 2026)

Operating and social evening. We will be continuing our experimenting with SSTV using mobile phone apps to encode and decode the signals and 2m handhelds to do the RF part. We will be testing some cables which link the phone…

At the club tonight (23rd September 2026)

We will be having a JOTA update (Jamboree On The Air). JOTA/JOTI is the world’s largest digital Scout event, held annually on the third full weekend of October. This year it’s on the 17th & 18th October. Our club will…

At the club tonight (16th September 2026)

Tonight is an operating and social evening. Some members will be using smartphones to encode/decode SSTV images with the sounds being sent over handheld radios on the 2m band. These count towards the RSGB Brickworks awards.

145 Alive

A large number of our members took part in 145 Alive on Sunday the 13th. Two of our members ran a net from Dundry, south of Bristol, 700+ feet above sea level, they reached from North Birmingham to Langford, Cardiff…

SSTV Demo

At our weekly club meeting on 9th Sept, we had a talk and demonstration on using smartphone apps to encode and decode images for SSTV. These just use the phone’s mic and speaker to send and receive audio via a…