[cma-l] A First for Community Radio?

Mon Jan 11 12:01:32 GMT 2016

And Bowie past away yesterday        :-(            

Spooky

Regards

Nick

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[mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Richard Hilton
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"But Bowie's was the last one before first contact". 

What can one add?

Richard

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[mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Clive Glover
Sent: 08 January 2016 15:39
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Subject: Re: [cma-l] A First for Community Radio?

Nick

Actually we played all space related music during the show - amazing how
many tracks we turned up. But Bowie's was the last one before first contact!

Clive

On 8 Jan 2016, at 14:00, Canalside's The Thread wrote:

Clive et al

''Ground control to Major Tom''     what a great story
fantastic !

Well done to everyone involved with this.

Unlike some of the other stuff we have to deal with which is a bit more akin
to ''Houston we have a problem''     LOL   :-)

Nick

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[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?
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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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