WOW!! It has been 20 years ago today that I had the most fun I have ever experienced since getting my ham license in 1977!
I received 14 sstv pictures and 90 audio clips from the space suit as it orbited the globe every 90 minutes for two weeks.
Here is one of the audio clips
On February 3, 2006 a decommissioned Olan Russian space suit was placed in orbit around the earth. The Expedition 12 International Space Station crew Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev and Commander Bill McArthur, KC5ACR launched the space suit by pushing it into orbit at the beginning of their space walk to repair outside equipment on the ISS. The space suit had been fitted with an amateur radio transmitter. The Suit Sat-1, as it is now being called, was designed to send telemetry from the space suit as well as pre-recorded audio by students from around the world. Special greetings in German and Spanish, Russian, French, Japanese, and English had been pre-recorded by these students from different countries. A Slow Scan Television Picture (SSTV) in Robot 36 second format was also included in the Suit Sat-1 microchip to be received and decoded by amateur radio operators and students around the globe. The transmission was to state the elapsed mission time, the suit’s internal temperature, and finally the battery voltage.
The sequence of the transmission was a voice ID (5 seconds), an international voice message, telemetry data or a SSTV Image (15-45 seconds), and then a 30 second pause.
