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Nepali Students to Talk to Astronaut in International Space Station:

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 04:51 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/36003


"What is the condition of pollution you see from space?" and "What do you
want to say to little students like us? Something inspirational or some
quotes?" are the two questions eighth grader Rozway Regmi of Naxal-based
Brihaspati Vidhyasadan High School has prepared to ask to an astronaut in
the International Space Station). "Is there anything new happening in
space?" This is another question from a BVS ninth grader Akitaka Sakiyama.
These are around two dozen questions that students of BVS and other schools
have prepared to ask British astronaut Timothy Peake in the ISS on January
20 at 2:22pm. Students from BVS and seven other schools such as Little
Angels' School, Whitefield Higher Secondary School, NK Singh Memorial EPS
Secondary School, Learning Realm International School, Bagmati Boarding
Higher Secondary School and others will be asking these questions to
astronaut Peake in ISS. The students were screened on the basis of their
proposed questions. According to Pravin Raj Joshi, director, BVS, the
students will talk for around 45 minutes to an hour with British astronaut
Peake, starting from 2:22 pm on January 20 through amateur radio.


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Satellites and Space in Amateur Radio:

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 04:51 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/36002


Many radio amateurs have traditionally had a deep interest in aviation,
astronautics and space sciences. In the immediate pre-WWII era, Dr. Grote
Reber W9GFZ invented the science of radio astronomy, which to this day
serves as an important source of information about the universe in which we
live. And by 1953, Ross Bateman W4AO and William Smith W3GKP were
successfully bouncing amateur radio signals off the surface of the Moon.


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Sub 9kHz Amateur Radio:

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 04:50 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/36001


Latest 2016 Sub-9kHz News for the up-to-date information. There is growing
interest in amateur radio operation below 9kHz in the so-called "Dreamer's
Band". Before 2010 few expected any real distances could be achieved by
radio amateurs at VLF. Radiated powers are low, antennas highly inefficient
and everything was stacked against success. However, with the advent of
powerful weak signal processing software and dedicated work by a few
enthusiasts, this has all changed. Some spectacular results have been, and
continue to be, achieved. These pages bring together this work. I hope you
find the pages both interesting and inspiring.


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Watch: Sun Puts on Spectacular Show:

Posted: 19 Jan 2016 04:50 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/36000


NASA has released a video of the sun in action. The video, captured by the
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), was taken Dec. 15-16, 2015. It shows a
solar filament dancing above the sun's surface.