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1st school contact for Tim Peake on ISS

martinedwards · 2016-01-05 16:22:43

Get your radios tuned to 145.800 on Friday 8th January at 08:47 to hear Tim Peake on board the International Space Station: http://delboyonline.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/first-school-ham-radio-contact-with-tim.html

05-01-2016 4:22pm

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martinedwards

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Get your radios tuned to 145.800 on Friday 8th January at 08:47 to hear Tim Peake on board the International Space Station:

http://delboyonline.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/first-school-ham-radio-contact-with-tim.html

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#2 08-01-2016 11:29am

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Thanks for the info. Listening to him from Kerry worked quite well with a 20+ year old Icom and a simple quarterwave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvAUBKWybvo
Unfortunately the people at school he was talking with seemed to have some problems copying him, but still quite an interesting experience...

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#3 09-01-2016 8:09am

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Yup, I listened with the kids in the car on the school run.

first time they've shown any interest in radio at all, definitely more than 80m whinging about licence progression or QRM on 20m!

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#4 09-01-2016 2:26pm

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There's something about space exploration that gets people's attention. I remember listening to the Russian cosmonauts talking back to ground from Mir around 25 years ago.

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