The ISS Is Sending TV Signals to HAM Radio Nerds

HAM radio enthusiasts around the world are freaking out this week because they’ve had the rare chance to receive and decode television signals from the International Space Station. The ISS is outfitted with an amateur radio that allows it to send and receive signals from Earth. Astronauts aboard the spacecraft occasionally use it to communicate with students as a whoa I’m talking to an astronaut from my classroom sort of exercise. There have even been times when bored astronauts have turned on the radio and started talking to random people around the world. But every once in a while, the ISS has an announced “event” where it broadcasts signals to amateur radio enthusiasts. More

(Source: Motherboard - Apr 15)