<div dir="ltr"><div>That's great work Clive, and shows what community radio can do!<br><br></div>Paul<br><br><br><br><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:Tahoma"><font size="1">Paul Golder</font></b></div><font size="1" face="Tahoma"><font color="#888888">Chairman, Phoenix FM</font><br></font><div><font size="1" face="Tahoma"><font color="#888888">The Brentwood Centre, Brentwood CM15 9NN</font></font></div><div><font size="1" face="Tahoma"><font color="#888888">Tel 01277 203035</font><a value="+443300010986" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"> </a><font color="#888888">Mob </font><a value="+447771664661" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">07771 664661</a><font color="#888888"> <br></font></font></div><div><font size="1"><font color="#888888" face="Tahoma">Website <a href="http://www.phoenixfm.com/" target="_blank">www.phoenixfm.com</a> and we're </font><font color="#888888" face="Tahoma">also on <a href="http://twitter.com/phoenixfm" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/phoenixfm" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/phoenixfmuk?gl=GB&hl=en-GB" target="_blank">Youtube</a> and of course on 98.0FM!</font> </font></div><div><font color="#888888" size="1" face="Tahoma"><b><br></b></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 January 2016 at 09:39, Clive Glover <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clivegloveruk@gmail.com" target="_blank">clivegloveruk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:18px">Blowing our trumpet time!</span><div><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px">We think this is a first for UK Community Radio...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px">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.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px">Several students were able to ask Tim questions and get his answers before they lost signal.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px">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).</span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px">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!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px">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.....!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px">Clive Glover</span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px">Radio Verulam 92.6FM</span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:18px"><br></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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