by Peter Goodhall | Jan 9, 2016 | Daily Updates
A 92 minute video containing the Sandringham School GB1SAN and Tim Peake GB1SS amateur radio contact is now available in the ARISS UK Team channel on YouTube. The amateur radio contact with the International Space Station took place on Friday, January 8, 2016 and was...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 8, 2016 | Daily Updates
The BBC report Sandringham School in St Albans has made history by making the first amateur radio call from the UK to a British astronaut on the space station. Year 10 pupil Jessica Leigh M6LPJ, who has recently passed her amateur radio exam, led the contact which...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 8, 2016 | Daily Updates
On Friday, January 8, students at Sandringham School, St. Albans had an amateur radio contact with UK astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS who was on board the International Space Station. Initial radio contact with Tim was made by Year 10 pupil Jessica Leigh M6LPJ who, along...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 7, 2016 | Daily Updates
Students at Sandringham School, St. Albans have been running through final preparations for their amateur radio contact with UK astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS on board the International Space Station. The school caters for 1300 students aged 11-19 with 100 teachers...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 6, 2016 | Daily Updates
Footage and interviews of students involved in the Sandringham School Space Festival amateur radio buildathon! They built their own working receivers in just a few hours! Watch Buildathon (Making a Radio) #SANDspace [youtube...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 5, 2016 | Daily Updates
Friday, January 8, 2016 at approximately 08:47 GMT, an ARISS contact is planned for Sandringham School, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Amateur radio station GB1SAN, will operate the contact. The ARISS HAM radio station GB1SS on the board of the...
by Peter Goodhall | Jan 5, 2016 | Daily Updates
The first UK school amateur radio contact by astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS from the International Space Station (ISS) will take place on Friday, January 8, 2016 at 0847 GMT with students at Sandringham School, St. Albans. The contact will be Web Streamed – Schedule You...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 30, 2015 | Daily Updates
The first UK school amateur radio contact by astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS from the International Space Station (ISS) will take place on Friday, January 8, 2016 at 0847 GMT with students at Sandringham School, St. Albans in Hertfordshire. The school will use the call sign...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 28, 2015 | Daily Updates
The EO-79 CubeSat SSB/CW transponder will be active from Monday, December 28 until Thursday, December 31. The first activation has shown the transponder uplink is about 12 kHz higher than expected. The suggested frequencies to try are now: Uplink: 435.047-435.077 MHz...
by Peter Goodhall | Dec 24, 2015 | Daily Updates
ESA has released a selection of favourite images from 2015, they include International Space Station astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti IZ0UDF and Tim Peake KG5BVI / GB1SS. The images can be downloaded in high resolution by clicking on the “Access the...
