[cma-l] A First for Community Radio?

[Clive Glover]

Robert

I don't think we realised quite how big a story it was going to be. We only established that we could do this technically the day before! We concentrated on promoting it on air and through Social Media, mainly FaceBook and Twitter to ensure our local audience and followers were aware.

As always, lessons learned!

Clive Glover

Radio Verulam 92.6 FM
St Albans

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> On 8 Jan 2016, at 20:22, Robert Snelling <robertsnllng at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> I did see it on the itv news, but  why was it not put out in the email discussion list be for hand that you where going in to the school and talk to the interspace station  so that the ones the discussion list can hear it on line live also you do have on your community radio and you do have a website
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> On Friday, 8 January 2016, 15:36, Canalside's The Thread <office at thethread.org.uk> wrote:
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> Clive et al
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> ‘’Ground control to Major Tom’’     what a great story                 fantastic !
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> Well done to everyone involved with this.
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> Unlike some of the other stuff we have to deal with which is a bit more akin to ‘’ Houston we have a problem’’     LOL   J
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> Nick
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> From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk [mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Clive Glover
> Sent: 08 January 2016 09:40
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> Subject: [cma-l] A First for Community Radio?
> Importance: High
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> Blowing our trumpet time!
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> We think this is a first for UK Community Radio...
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> 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 .
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> Several students were able to ask Tim questions and get his answers before they lost signal.
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> 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).
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> 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!
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> 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.....!
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> Clive Glover
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> Radio Verulam 92.6FM
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