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St Albans Student Brought Down to Earth for Meeting with Astronaut Tim Peak

Posted: 25 Jul 2016 05:41 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37253


And just as big a thrill came this week when she was invited to a Downing
Street reception to meet Tim, now back on terra firma, with new Prime
Minister Theresa May. Jessica, a pupil in Year 10 at Sandringham School in
St Albans, was the radio operator for Tim's first amateur radio call to a
UK school from space and she was the first to speak to jo, when the school
linked up with the International Space Station in early January. She had
studied for and was awarded her amateur radio licence especially for the
call and is now a radio enthusiast. The school has also caught the bug and
has set up a radio club. On the day of the link, the students had less than
10 minutes to speak to Tim when the space station was passing over the UK
and Jessica both signed on with him and also thanked him when the link
ended. At the time she described the experience as surreal and said how
crazy it was to talk to someone 400km from Earth, adding: "I would like to
go into space but it is quite dangerous." Jessica went on to win the Pupil
of the Year award for her endeavours in the Herts Advertiser 2016 School
Awards.


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Amateur Radio Related Uses for the Raspberry Pi:

Posted: 25 Jul 2016 05:39 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37252


I presented on amateur-radio-related uses for the Raspberry Pi this evening
at my local club, the River City Amateur Radio Communications Society.
Here's a copy of my slides from the presentation on Slidesha



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'Triple Whammy' Eruptions Occur Within Minutes of Each Other on Sun:

Posted: 25 Jul 2016 05:40 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37251


Although the sun is in a period of low activity, it isn't staying
completely quiet. Over the weekend, the 4.5 billion year old ball of gas
produced three mid-strength solar flares that have been deemed the most
powerful to occur in 2016. Captured by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory,
these flares were classified as M-level flares -- the category just below
the most intense X-class flares.