by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2016 | Daily Updates
Steve Nichols G0KYA got some good publicity for amateur radio by letting his local media outlets know he had received a signal from Tim Peake on the ISS. He was lucky enough to hear astronaut Tim Peake’s ISS contact with another UK school on Thursday, February...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2016 | Daily Updates
This is the 77 minute video of the ARISS contact between Tim Peake GB1SS and the Royal Masonic School for Girls Rickmansworth GB1RMS. The video starts with the students of Cadogan House, the prep school for girls aged 4 to 11 at the Royal Masonic School for Girls...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2016 | Daily Updates
Christian Jacobs 2E0ICL and other members of the Southampton University Wireless Society (SUWS) listened to the Tim Peake GB1SS amateur radio contact on February 11, 2016 with the Royal Masonic School for Girls GB1RMS. The ISS downlink was on 145.800 MHz (+/- 3.5 kHz...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2016 | Daily Updates
The second live amateur radio call to a British school with Tim Peake GB1SS took place Thursday, February 11, 2016 at the Royal Masonic School (RMS) for Girls GB1RMS in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Contact was made with the International Space Station (ISS) at around...
by Peter Goodhall | Feb 12, 2016 | Daily Updates
In a Tweet sent February 11 the UK Space Agency noted that the HamTV Digital Amateur Television (DATV) transmission by Tim Peake GB1SS from the ISS was a “World First”. On Thursday, February 11, 2016, at approximately 18:09 UT, an ARISS contact took place...
