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Ashfield Primary School Tim Peake Contact

Posted: 26 Apr 2016 12:58 PM PDT
https://amsat-uk.org/2016/04/26/ashf...ool-tim-peake/

Tim Peake KG5BVI / GB1SS preparing for his spacewalk in January

The ARISS UK Operations team are delighted to announce that the amateur
radio contact between Ashfield Primary School in Otley, West Yorkshire has
now been confirmed for Thursday, May 5 at 0808 GMT (9:08 am BST) with Tim
Peake GB1SS on the International Space Station.

The contact should be receivable on 145.800 MHz FM over the British Isles
and Western Europe and webcast on the ARISS Principia website.

The Wharfedale Observer reports Otley school has been chosen for ‘out of
this world’ talk using amateur radio to British astronaut.

Children in Otley are set to enjoy an ‘out of this world’ talk with British
astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS.

Ashfield Primary School pupils will be put in direct contact with Major
Peake, who is on a mission with the International Space Station, in May.

The event is a coup for the school which is the only one in Yorkshire to be
selected for the Amateur Radio on ISS link-up.

Ashfield was chosen following a lengthy application process involving
schools across the country. Its bid was led by staff member Michael Ross
M6FFK, through his links with Otley Amateur Radio Society (OARS) and
supported by BBC One Show scientist – and Otley resident – Dr Marty Jopson.

Read the full story at

http://www.wharfedaleobserver.co.uk/...ish_astronaut/

ARISS Principia https://principia.ariss.org/

Ashfield Primary School Otley

http://www.ashfieldprimary.co.uk/

https://twitter.com/AshfieldOtley

https://www.facebook.com/ashfieldprimary/

Otley Amateur Radio Society

https://twitter.com/OtleyARS

http://www.otleyradio.org/

https://www.facebook.com/Otley-Amate...2544076468960/

UK ARISS shortlisted schools
https://amsat-uk.org/2016/02/03/all-...now-scheduled/

Listening to the ISS on a handheld radio
https://amsat-uk.org/2016/01/10/list...s-on-handheld/

Get press publicity by receiving ISS school contacts

https://amsat-uk.org/2016/03/10/pres...receiving-iss/

What is Amateur Radio? http://www.essexham.co.uk/what-is-amateur-radio

Find an amateur radio training course near you
https://thersgb.org/services/coursefinder/

A free booklet is available aimed at introducing newcomers to the hobby
that can also be used as a handy reference while getting started, see

http://rsgb.org/main/get-started-in-...ateur-radio-2/

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Three new CubeSats now in orbit

Posted: 26 Apr 2016 09:43 AM PDT
https://amsat-uk.org/2016/04/26/thre...-now-in-orbit/


Signals have been received from the three CubeSats launched April 25 on
Soyuz flight VS14 from the Kourou spaceport in South America.

The three CubeSats were developed by student teams under the European Space
Agency (ESA) Education Office “Fly Your Satellite!� program, which is aimed
at training the next generation of aerospace professionals. The satellites
are OUFTI-1, Université of Liège, Belgium; e-st@r-II, Polytechnic of Turin,
Italy; AAUSAT-4, University of Aalborg, Denmark.

The signal from the e-st@r satellite 1200 bps beacon is very weak which may
indicate an antenna deployment issue or unexpectedly low transmit power.
ESA report the e-st@r team is working to consolidate the radio
communication link with their satellite.

OUFTI-1 carries the first dedicated amateur D-Star satellite transponder,
further information and frequencies of all three CubeSats are at

https://amsat-uk.org/2016/04/05/d-st...h-from-kourou/

Daniel Estévez EA4GPZ used a FUNcube Dongle Pro+ and a handheld Arrow
Satellite antenna to receive a signal from AAUSAT-4, call signÂ*OZ4CUB.

http://destevez.net/2016/04/first-si...from-aausat-4/

OUFTI-1 reports http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?cat=321

e-st@r reports http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?cat=84

AAUSAT-4 reports http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?cat=8

Read the ARRL story at

http://www.arrl.org/news/three-esa-f...s-now-in-orbit

ESA Fly Your satellite! CubeSats phoned home

http://www.esa.int/Education/CubeSat...ts_phoned_home