[cma-l] A First for Community Radio?

[Hall, Magz (magz.hall@canterbury.ac.uk)]

Hi Clive,

congratulations what an amazing project!

my son aged 7 excitedly told me early this morning, that children from St Albans were on Newsround

talking to the astronaut and its also really great to hear about the Principia project too !

best wishes

Magz


Dr. Magz Hall Senior Lecturer
School of Media Art and Design
Canterbury Christ Church University
Canterbury Kent CT1 1QU UK

https://magzhall.wordpress.com/

http://radioarts.org.uk/





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Sent: 08 January 2016 09:39
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Subject: [cma-l] A First for Community Radio?

Blowing our trumpet time!

We think this is a first for UK Community Radio...

This morning during our Breakfast Show Radio Verulam in St Albans relayed a live link between local school Sandringham and astronaut Tim Peake in the International Space Station in the few minutes when the ISS passed over St Albans.

Several students were able to ask Tim questions and get his answers before they lost signal.

It is worth mentioning that this achievement by the school did not involve simply plugging into ESA professional communications facilities but instead a direct two way radio link using Amateur Radio equipment and a tracking satellite dish following the ISS across the sky above St Albans for around 8 minutes. I suspect not that many schools have such equipment (Sandringham has  a thriving amateur radio club).

Around 1,000 schools across the UK have applied to join the Principia project so many more will be doing something similar in the next few months - it might be worth seeing if you can do something with any schools local to you. But Sandringham was the first to do this and so Radio Verulam was first to relay it too!

And, by the way, BBC TV Breakfast was there at the school but completely missed the Q & As because they switched to a weather forecast as the connection was made.....!

Clive Glover

Radio Verulam 92.6FM


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