And we all know we have the tech to prevent it

Hi, so spotthestation.nasa.gov is good and all, but is there any way to see further out iss flyovers? for my city right now, the list of flyovers only goes out less than 2 weeks.

Today, I captured my first Slow Scan TV image sent from the ISS, which was picked up on my radio and fed into the computer to decode. Not the clearest, but it was my first attempt!

Slow scan TV image captured from the International Space Station.

The radio I used was a Retevis RT95, connected to a roof top colinear antenna for the 2m band. Tuning into 145.800MHz and recording the audio into the sound card of a computer running QSSTV to decode it.
I'm also experimenting with a handheld radio poking out of the attic velux window to get a better lock onto the signal.

If you want to know more, check out:
https://www.ariss.org/
https://amsat-uk.org/beginners/iss-sstv/
and much better examples of captures than my own here: https://www.spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/

Before this, I've heard the ISS crew on the same frequency, talking back to schools on outreach programmes.

Still on the to-do list, use the ISS repeater to make an amateur radio contact with someone else on the ground via the ISS, and to perhaps strike lucky one day and get a contact direct with the crew. All possible, but I'll probably need to change antenna.

UPDATE: Stood outside with a handheld scanner and telescopic whip and managed to pick up this and I'm totally chuffed at how clear that picture is! As a relative noob to ham radio too.

https://preview.redd.it/xvhyh3dm7cud1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=c13cba9990bf0c98ebcd92978e14a1bdc5d65775

Alas that's it for today, no more passes overhead until tomorrow.

Unfortunately, instead of taking that stunning picture of the ISS and the veus next to each other with the same brightness, I chose to check if I was right (I was)...and then it was too late :(

But I did a screenshot of the app showing the ISS.