Southgate Amateur Radio News for Thursday 7 January 2016
 

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Sandringham School ISS Ham Radio contact

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Jessica Leigh, a student at Sandringham School in St Albans, will be
operating a VHF/UHF amateur radio station to enable her school to
communicate directly with Tim Peake, KG5BVI/GB1SS who is currently on board
the International Space Station (ISS)

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Tim Peake to make his first spacewalk

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Expedition 46 flight engineers Tim Kopra, KE5UDN of NASA and Tim Peake,
KG5BVI of ESA (European Space Agency) will venture outside the space
station’s Quest airlock to replace a failed voltage regulator that
compromised one of the station’s eight power channels last November

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Students in Ham Radio Buildathon

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Footage and interviews of students involved in the Sandringham Space
Festival amateur radio buildathon!

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Tony's 10 Metre Band Report

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Norman G4AYU, sent in a most important piece of info for me in the form of
a link to Tim Peake on the ISS which produced this picture...

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Tim Peake mission in the Press

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A newspaper article about the Principia logo for Tim Peake's mission
mentions the planned school amateur radio contacts

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Thomas Hughes GM3EDZ SK

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Glasgow's Evening Times reports Thomas Patrick Hughes GM3EDZ passed away at
The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital on December 23, 2015

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ARISS school contact at H.A.L. School, Lucknow, India

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Students at H.A.L. School in Lucknow, India will have a contact with ISS
astronauts between 04th April to 10th April 2016

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IOTA news from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

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Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club