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Students prepare to speak to Tim Peake GB1SS

Posted: 07 Jan 2016 02:26 PM PST
http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/07/stude...r-iss-contact/

Sandringham School students preparing for Tim Peake contact Image Credit
Sandringham School

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 including
specialist teachers of computing science and three female physics teachers
all of whom have a specialist interest in space and astronomy. In addition,
the head teacherÂ*Alan Gray G4DJX is a very active radio amateur who is
extremely supportive of this contact.

ARISS UK (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) has provided
and set up all necessary radio equipment such as low earth orbit satellite
tracking antennas and radios, to establish a fully functional, direct radio
link with the ISS from the school premises. In a ten-minute window when the
ISS will be over the UK, an amateur radio contact will be established with
Tim, and students will be able to ask him questions about his life and work
on board the ISS.
Sandringham School pupils with Foundation exam certificates Credit Verulam
Amateur Radio Club

Initial radio contact with Tim is expected to be made by Year 10 pupil
Jessica Leigh M6LPJ who, along with two other students, passed her
Foundation exam just before Christmas after training with the Verulam
Amateur Radio Club.

The Sandringham School Space Festival started on January 5 and culminates
with the live contact with astronaut Tim Peake on Friday January 8 at 08:47
GMT. The contact will be Web Streamed – Schedule

During the week there has been a wide range of activities to engage the
students in space, including a presentation from Spacecraft Engineer Sian
Cleaver, mobile planetariums, an amateur radio buildathon, rocket workshops
and talks on Mars and Cosmonauts.
As part of the Space festival some of the young women at Sandringham School
built a model of the ISS. Watch Women In Engineering #SANDspace



ARISS contact planned for school in St. Albans

http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/05/ariss...-in-st-albans/

Students in Amateur Radio Buildathon
http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/06/stude...io-buildathon/

The contact will be web streamed from the school, watch live at
https://principia.ariss.org/live/

You can listen to the Sandringham School contact with Tim Peake on the ISS
at 0847 GMT on Friday, January 8, either online or by using a ham radio
tuned to 145.800 MHz FM, further information at

http://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/05/iss-s...-get-involved/

Huffington Post report
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016...n_8915462.html
Sandringham School Students Image Credit Sandringham School