Nice… 2 more hours and we’ll see what things look like over the eastern United States.
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Result of the first attempt (19:14-19:23 UTC) of this event. High elevation pass (70deg. western). 7 el. Yagi + RTL SDR V4. Result is one - cleaner but not full (antenna aiming mistake), the other - full but with high distortion (transmission occured at rather low elevation - lower than 30deg.)
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Despite having a high pass and manually tracking the satellite, the signal on my 11-element yagi was still too weak to resolve, (unlike strong signals received from UMKA-1 etc) 
QMR-KWT-2 Robot 36 #sstv 436.95 MHz. 6 Mar 26 0336Z 77W EM12kw. 2.5 turn helix antenna with BPF/LNA, Airspy Mini.
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Wasn’t the best pass with high buildings obstructing quite a bit of the sky but didn’t hear anything on the 1119utc pass over UK today (6-Mar-26). Will try again later / tomorrow.
Second try and success. High elevation pass (65 deg) and transmission began near apogee. Pictures received at 18:58 UTC (with some noise) and 19:00 UTC (best one) accordingly.
And again on 7 el. Yagi + RTL SDR V4 (screenshot of waterfall included)
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QMR-KWT 2 transmitted only telemetry (07:49-07:58 UTC) СОНИКС - Наблюдение 1170946
UPD- According to EFIR network info - SSTV restored at atleast 09:30 UTC. Thank you!
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Thank you for the feedback. We are working on restoring SSTV transmission.
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Hi @dubai QMR-KWT 2 team,
I have successfully received the eQSL card from the recent QMR-KWT 2 SSTV event.
Thank you very much for organizing such a wonderful activity for the amateur satellite community.
It was a great experience to receive and decode the images.
Reception details
UTC: 2026-03-01 02:13
Grid: PM53kv
Location: Kitakyushu, Japan
For reference, I am sharing several materials related to my reception:
- the issued eQSL card
- received SSTV images
- screenshots of the decoding process - photos of my reception setup
Thank you again for the excellent event, and I wish the QMR-KWT 2 team continued success in your future missions.
73
JF6FYI
Kazuki Nishioka
Kitakyushu, Japan
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