Okay folks, I’m sorry, I promised that I’d try to stay up late enough to record some of the first passes of ARISSAT-1, but physical need for sleep outpaced my natural enthusiasm and curiosity, and the first good pass found me sound asleep. Through some perverse quirk of fate, all the best passes of the ISS are occurring in the early morning hours. Running my own homebrew satellite prediction library, I find that my best opportunity for a pass where I am awake and the satellite is illuninated, and therefore in high power mode, will likely be tomorrow starting around 7:28AM PST. I’ll try to get myself all setup for that, and will hopefully have some audio and/or video tomorrow.

In the meantime, it has been heard.

VK2BRB recorded this YouTube video:

SW1OBT heard the voice beacon, and the start of the SSTV transmission: