I’ll add more to this post as I get them.
The International Space Station is, once again, transmitting SSTV. They will be doing this for the first few days of August 2019. My radio and software will be running, during this period.
All images were received using an omni-directional discone antenna that is located on the roof of my house (not as high as it could be). The radio is a Yaesu FT-991A set to 145.800MHz with the squelch at zero (full static). I use a Windows 10 machine with MMSSTV software, version 1.13A. I also have a major tree with full foliage to the northwest of the antenna.
There were exactly five passes of the ISS, each day, in the afternoon into the evening, each approximately an hour and a half apart. Depending on when the transmissions started and ended, the noise was better or worse. It also depended, a lot, on the elevation of the ISS as it passed over. The discone antenna is pretty good at not having too many nulls in it’s receive, but that being said… they still exist, due to the mounting location and the surrounding obstructions.
I am very happy that I was able to receive the images that I did, honoring the late Owen Garriott (W5LFL), who was the first radio amateur to operate from space.