Receiving Targeted Message From Russian Satellite

Recently I was contacted by the ground controller for the UmKA-1 or RS40S cubesat. It's a small educational satellite assembled by a Russian high school, originally for astronomy but also for amateur radio. They wanted to send me a message at a specific time in the satellite's orbit and see if I could receive it. This took a couple tries, but eventually I got an SSTV picture from the cubesat. I was also able to decode some of the telemetry signals and look at the satellite's electrical system details. This is the first time I've tried to do anything with a cubesat, so it was kind of neat! Some more info on the satellite is here: https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/u... The decoding software is here: https://github.com/Foxiks/UmKA-1_Tele... I had more luck with this software to decode telemetry (along with the Soundmodem package from the github link): https://sputnix.ru/en/satellites-sput... To decode the SSTV signals, I used this software: https://hamsoft.ca/pages/mmsstv.php I used this antenna: https://amzn.to/3UXQdxK I like the RTL-SDR Blog series of software defined radios for stuff like this: https://amzn.to/3Ig3t9a (if you buy stuff from these links, Amazon gives me a commission) Saveitforparts t-shirts and other merch at https://saveitforparts.myspreadshop.com/ Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @saveitforparts   Or support me via Patreon at   / saveitforparts   Check out gadgets and devices I like at https://www.amazon.com/shop/saveitfor...