Year end ARISS activity if you have room in year end division news. :) 73.. Mark, HDX All— this is hot off the press. The ARISS team has scrambed the last few days! ARISS SSTV sessions are typically done at the end of the year and get wildly high participant numbers. This session is different because it's truly an experiment, will be transmitted on 437.800 MHz using PD120 formatting, and at limited times. All details will be at www.ariss.org and in ARISS social media posts (see last few lines below). For now, what I'm forwarding is the latest info. Hope you share this info and also can participate! 73, Rosalie K1STO *ARISS News Release No.23-69* *Dave Jordan, AA4KN * *ARISS PR * *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * *2023 Year-End ARISS Special SSTV Experiment! * December 26, 2023 — Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) announces a *special SSTV experiment* to be held *this week*. The ARISS Voice Repeater will be the downlink for enthusiasts, and several ARISS selected ground stations around the world will serve as SSTV uplink stations. Two special images will be transmitted on 437.800 MHz using PD120 formatting. This limited experiment will be conducted on several passes over Europe, Australia and the USA between Wednesday, December 27 and Saturday, December 30, 2023. Go to www.ariss.org and ARISS social media posts to monitor for pass information. ARISS hopes enthusiasts will have fun downloading the images and follow along with the event. **IMPORTANT: Please, all hams should hold off from using the ARISS Voice Repeater for voice contacts during the event times. *About ARISS: * Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN) and the ISS National Lab—Space Station Explorers. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see http://www.ariss.org. Media Contact: Dave Jordan, AA4KN ARISS PR Find us on social media at: Twitter: ARISS_Intl Facebook: facebook.com/ARISSIntl Instagram: ariss_intl Mastodon: ariss_intl@mastodon.hams.social Check out ARISS on Youtube.com. You're receiving this message because you're a member of the ARRL ARISS group from American Radio Relay League. To take part in this conversation, reply all to this message. View group files <https://outlook.office365.com/owa/arrl-ariss@arrl.org/groupsubscription.ashx?source=EscalatedMessage&action=files&GuestId=ad8587be-048f-42b5-8a20-287d7de450cc> | Leave group <https://outlook.office365.com/owa/arrl-ariss@arrl.org/groupsubscription.ashx?source=EscalatedMessage&action=leave&GuestId=ad8587be-048f-42b5-8a20-287d7de450cc> | Learn more about Microsoft 365 Groups <https://aka.ms/o365g>