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Another successful Canadian school contactJaanimmarik School in Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Canada experienced a successful contact with the International Space Station on Thursday, May 4 via the telebridge station VK5ZAI in Australia. Jeff Williams, KD5TVQ, answered twenty-three questions posed to him by 18 students. The event was well attended by approximately 450 students, teachers and parents. Among the dignitaries present were the president and CEO of Makivik Corporation, Senator C. Watt, local officials, and elders from the community school board from the Montreal and local offices. Media coverage was provided by a local radio station which broadcast the event live, translating the contact in Inuktituk, CBC North, and APTN (Northern Canada TV Network). APTN is producing a presentation for later broadcasting. The City of Ottawa media also reported the event. The audio from this contact was webcast courtesy of Verizon Conferencing and was fed into the EchoLink AMSAT (node 101 377) and JK1ZRW (node 277 208) conference servers. Twenty-three connections were made, of which two were repeaters, from
9 countries, including Bangladesh, Holland and Thailand. It was also available
on the IRLP Discovery reflector 9010. Source: Radio Amateurs of Canada
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