Sunday 21 October 2018
ESA Mission Zero Python coding challenge Presentation by James M0JFP at Egham Raspberry Jam
James M0JFP presented Mission Zero, an opportunity to have your Python code run on the International Space station. He stepped through explaining what the Sense hat was and why it was developed and sent to the space station. He then worked through examples of code showing the Children how to display their names, take the temperature and some simple graphics.
You can download the lesson plan and sample code from GitHub
GB1JAM 20th Egham Raspberry Jam Satellite demonstration
We had great fun operating GB1JAM to celebrate the 20th Egham Raspberry Jam.
There was opportunity to decode our message on the AO73 FunCube 1 satellite
We also demonstrated a FM satellite pass
You can hear our AO91 pass here where we made several contacts
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/htl6jy6ofnzr1tp/New%20Recording-14-wavversion.wav?dl=0
To give some perspective here is the recording from Peter G0ABI
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/km8z90bgaf8dq2i/GB1JAM.mp3?dl=0
Above, simple set up Arrow Antenna and FT8900 radio
Here are the confirmation QSL cards from our satellite contact above
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/
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