{"id":238455,"date":"2015-12-13T19:06:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T23:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=27470"},"modified":"2015-12-13T19:06:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T23:06:36","slug":"helen-sharman-and-amateur-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=238455","title":{"rendered":"Helen Sharman and Amateur Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_11512\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11512\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/helen-sharman-gb1mir.jpg?w=192&#038;h=300\" alt=\"Helen Sharman GB1MIR\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helen Sharman GB1MIR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s first astronaut <strong>Helen Sharman<\/strong> was asked about Amateur Radio on the BBC Radio 4 show Saturday Live <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/news\/helen-sharman-amateur-radio-in-space.html\" >broadcast<\/a> December 12.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by a listener, <strong>Brian<\/strong>, whether she still uses her amateur radio licence, she said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy amateur radio license was given to me very specially. I didn\u2019t 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\u2019t talk to a lot of people in Europe because there\u2019s so many people trying to communicate with the space station but in parts of the world we\u2019re it\u2019s less populated, for instance in Australia, the astronauts do make friends that they\u2019ve only ever met through the radio\u2026 it\u2019s lovely.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the full Essex Ham story and listen to the show at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/news\/helen-sharman-amateur-radio-in-space.html\" >http:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/news\/helen-sharman-amateur-radio-in-space.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read about Helen Sharman&#8217;s amateur radio operation from the Mir Space Station at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/about\/history\/first-uk-astronaut-helen-sharman-gb1mir\/\" >http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/about\/history\/first-uk-astronaut-helen-sharman-gb1mir\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&#038;blog=41081109&#038;%23038;post=27470&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&rsquo;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: &ldquo;My amateur &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2015\/12\/13\/helen-sharman-and-amateur-radio\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&amp;blog=41081109&amp;post=27470&amp;subd=ukamsat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-AMSAT"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238456,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238455\/revisions\/238456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}