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Pilton Bluecoat Junior School ARISS contact videoDespite the UK being in the grip of the worst snow for nearly 20 years, the UK ARISS team of Carlos Eavis G0AKI, Howard Long G6LVB and assisted by Ciaran Morgan M0XTD, helped pull-off a stunning, direct contact between Sandra Magnus on board the ISS using callsign OR4ISS and The Pilton Bluecoat Primary School in Barnstable, England (callsign G0NPV) on Friday 6th February at 1452hrs UTC. Contact was established right on time and the children at Pilton managed to get all 20 questions asked with no difficulty. The replies from Sandra where heard over most of Western Europe. Videos of the contact can be found at Howard Long has also produced some additional formats as follows: Video WMV 320x240 - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.wmv Video MP4 480x320 - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.mp4 Video Flash 320x240 - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.flv Enjoy! Regards Ciaran Morgan, M0XTD Related URLs Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) AMSAT-UK produce a quarterly newsletter OSCAR News full of satellite information. Join online at https://secure.amsat.org.uk/subscription/ AMSAT-UK website
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