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<p>Hi Clive,</p>
<p>congratulations what an amazing project!</p>
<p>my son aged 7 excitedly told me early this morning, that children from St Albans were on Newsround </p>
<p>talking to the astronaut and its also really great to hear about the Principia project too <span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 18px;">! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18px;">best wishes</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Magz</span></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk <cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk> on behalf of Clive Glover <clivegloveruk@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 08 January 2016 09:39<br>
<b>To:</b> CMA Discussion List List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [cma-l] A First for Community Radio?</font>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:18px">Blowing our trumpet time!</span>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:18px">We think this is a first for UK Community Radio...</span></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-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>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:18px">Several students were able to ask Tim questions and get his answers before they lost signal.</span></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-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>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-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>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-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>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:18px">Clive Glover</span></div>
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