Helen Sharman GB1MIR
The UK’s first astronaut Helen Sharman was asked about Amateur Radio on the BBC Radio 4 show Saturday Live broadcast December 12.
When asked by a listener, Brian, whether she still uses her amateur radio licence, she said:
“My amateur radio license was given to me very specially. I didn’t pass the tests in order to get it and I was only allowed to use it while I was in space, but I made friends all over the world. You can’t talk to a lot of people in Europe because there’s so many people trying to communicate with the space station but in parts of the world we’re it’s less populated, for instance in Australia, the astronauts do make friends that they’ve only ever met through the radio… it’s lovely.”
Read the full Essex Ham story and listen to the show at
http://www.essexham.co.uk/news/helen-sharman-amateur-radio-in-space.html
Read about Helen Sharman’s amateur radio operation from the Mir Space Station at
http://amsat-uk.org/about/history/first-uk-astronaut-helen-sharman-gb1mir/
