[cma-l] A First for Community Radio?

[Paul Golder]

That's great work Clive, and shows what community radio can do!

Paul




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On 8 January 2016 at 09:39, Clive Glover <clivegloveruk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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