For SSTV images I normally use a Yaesu FT-60R + Sony PX240 + Yagi OWA 6el
For telemetry and sometimes SSTV I just use an RTL-SDR V3 + Yagi OWA 6el (The reception is MUCH worse than FT-60R. I need to find some kind of filter to improve this 
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dont forget, he have “hand” god. that is special hand
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- 2026-04-17 14:04UTC
Nanozond-1 over Brazil
!! (TLE is still good)
Battery voltage is good and temperatures are good!! We’re reaching the “finish line”
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for archive and better visualization:
Yaesu FT-60R
Sony PX240
6-el yagi OWA (just erase the 7th element, and you have a 6-el yagi photo)
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This is my old setup for FM satellites hahahahahahah
To FM nowadays I also use an Yagi OWA 6el for UHF and an Yagi OWA 3el for VHF mounted on the same boom.
OWA designs are much better because they are easy to build and have a very good bandwidth.
To illustrate my real setup for SSTV, here’s a fresh photo from about 4 minutes ago :
Of course, I forgot to mention my old and battered headset that I use every day for gaming 
All of this is super old but dude, the reception the FT-60R has is incredible, and the PX240 still works well today 
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we need the fresh yagi photo
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1615 UTC (17th April), SSTV image and TLM noted, so still up 
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1649, it’s still chirping. I have my yagi SSTV image, but I wanted to compare to the SatNOGS collect… I’ll post them together after the Maint is done.
Here we go, the 1649UTC at FM14gl (It was late in the pass when the picture came across):
With the yagi and Yaesu:
And the same pass with the SatNOGS station. (There was static at the top that made QSSTV restart and lose the top few lines.)
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expectation:
VS
reality:
2026-04-18 03:21 UTC (from this obs) - altitude 232 km (decode on pc using qsstv app)
live testing my sstv2satno, auto decoding inside satnogs-client (satnogs groundstation). not perfectly, but it works.
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Well, if it’s still up later today, I have a high pass. But I think it might have re-entered before then…
It will go over me in about 90 minutes (4pm UTC) on an 88 degree Elevation pass…. maybe!
Terrible signal, but it’s still up (The TLM was much stronger at the peak, but unfortunately the SSTV was transmitted at low elevations…)
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2026-04-18 at 1635UTC over FM14:
The observation is interesting, showing that the TLE is, indeed off… Mental math says it’s ahead of schedule… actual freq is ahead of calculated doppler. Kinda what we expect, eh?
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