Sandra Magnus KE5FYE, spoke to pupils at Pilton Bluecoat Junior School in Barnstaple, Devon

Pilton Bluecoat Junior School ARISS contact video

Despite 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
http://www.it-sparkles.co.uk/ARISS/pilton.aspx (single page with multiple links for FLV (YouTube), MOV (Quicktime) and WMV (MS Windows devices)).

Howard Long has also produced some additional formats as follows:

Sound - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.mp3 (1.1Mb)

Video WMV 320x240 - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.wmv
(70Mb) Suitable for a Windows Mobile device

Video MP4 480x320 - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.mp4
(70Mb) Suitable for an iPhone

Video Flash 320x240 - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.flv
(32Mb) YouTube quality

Enjoy!

Regards

Ciaran Morgan, M0XTD

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