Sunday 21 October 2018

GB6SS (Sixth Staines Scouts) JOTA Enigma / Funcube challenge

The challenge was set to decode a message from FunCube1 satellite and then answer a set of questions to get the settings for the enigma decoding engine.

https://amsat-uk.org/2018/10/19/the-jota-joti-funcube-challenge/ 

We had some great fun setting this up and getting the full message eventually.

Thanks to all who helped set this up.

Here is our video of the fully decoded message



"DEAR SCOUTS SPACE TRAVEL IS THE FUTURE GO ON A JOURNEY IN SPACE NOT ONLY DURING THE JOTA JOTI BUT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR RADIO AMATEURS CAN SUPPORT YOU HOPE TO MEET YOU IN THE FUTURE"

We got a couple of mentions on Amsat-UK web pages:
https://amsat-uk.org/2018/10/19/the-jota-joti-funcube-challenge/ 
and
https://amsat-uk.org/2018/10/22/scouts-participate-in-funcube-challenge/

Saturday 20 October 2018

JOTA station GB6SS (Sixth Staines Scouts) FT8 contacts QSL

FT847 with signal link interface and an old microwave moules amp on 2 meters ssb
FT8 software decoding one of our QSO's


Here are some of the QSL cards we got over the weekend.