ISS MAI-75 SSTV activity planned for Aug 4-5

An announcement made July 27 on the ARISS SSTV Blog says: The final crew schedule for the week of Aug 3-9 was released recently and it showed a MAI-75 activity scheduled for Aug 4 and 5. This is soon after the Space X Demo-2 undock so changes to that event could impact the schedule.

The current dates and times of the planned activity are as follows:
Aug 4 (12:25-18:10 UTC) is setup and day 1 operations.
Aug 5 (08:15-18:25 UTC) is day 2 operations and close out.

This is the Moscow Aviation Institute SSTV experiment that is active for orbital passes over Moscow, Russia. Mode is likely to be PD-120

SSTV gallery from ARISS 

On this page you will find images from the "Expedition 63 - MAI-75 August 2020" mission.  

How to receive SSTV images from the International Space Station ISS? 

 Receive images from Phone.

1. Prepare a 2M handheld analog radio. frequency 145.80Mhz. and need to turn off squelch.
2. Install robot36 SSTV Image Decoder software on your Android phone.

3. Also need to install a satellite tracking software Heavens-Above, you can see the satellite transit time, elevation angle azimuth.

4. When the satellite is crossing the border, turn on the mobile phone robot software and walkie-talkie, bring the phone close to the walkie-talkie, the software will automatically decode the image from the space station.

Receive images on your Windows PC computer.

1. Install MMSSTV image decoder software.  

2. It is best to use a laptop with a sound card, which can record the sound of the walkie-talkie when the satellite transits.
The software will decode it automatically.