Some of the pictures of earth transmitted by the Amateur Radio Station onboard the International Space Station can be seen at:

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/SSTV/

The pictures are sent using Slow Scan television (SSTV) on 145.800 MHz FM.

On that frequency you will may hear either the Astronauts talking to other Radio Amateurs on Earth (5 of the 6 Astronouts on ISS have Amateur radio licences) or AX.25 Packet, or SSTV pictures.

Decoding software for SSTV using the a PC sound card is free, see Free Slow Scan TV Software MMSSTV
http://mmhamsoft.amateur-radio.ca/

How to receive SSTV from ISS
http://www.marexmg.org/fileshtml/howtouseiss.html

More radio hams heading for space station
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/may2009/more_hams_for_iss.htm

Soundcard AX.25 software is also available.

73 Trevor M5AKA
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