{"id":238884,"date":"2015-12-30T09:23:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=27638"},"modified":"2015-12-30T09:23:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T13:23:37","slug":"tim-peake-sandringham-school-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=238884","title":{"rendered":"Tim Peake Sandringham School Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_27639\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/sandringham-school-pupils-with-foundation-pass-certificates-credit-varc-greg-beacher-m0ppg.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27639\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27639 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/sandringham-school-pupils-with-foundation-pass-certificates-credit-varc-greg-beacher-m0ppg.jpg?w=300&#038;h=201\" alt=\"Sandringham School pupils with Foundation certificates - Credit VARC Greg Beacher M0PPG\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandringham School pupils with Foundation certificates &#8211; Credit VARC Greg Beacher M0PPG<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The first Amateur Radio school contact by UK astronaut <strong>Tim Peake GB1SS<\/strong> from the International Space Station (ISS) will take place on Friday, January 8, 2016 at 0847 GMT with students at Sandringham School, St. Albans in Hertfordshire. The school will use the call sign <strong>GB1SAN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Albans based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verulam-arc.org.uk\/\" >Verulam Amateur Radio Club<\/a> (VARC) ran a \u2018Foundation Licence\u2019 course in December. Three of the candidates were pupils from Sandringham School who took the course in preparation for the contact with Tim Peake.<\/p>\n<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_24268\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/ariss-logo.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24268\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24268\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/ariss-logo.jpg?w=300&#038;h=294\" alt=\"Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) logo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The ISS HamTV will not be available for the Sandringham School contact because the ISS Digital Amateur Television (DATV) system will be turned off to permit other experiments.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be able to listen to Tim Peake GB1SS on the 145.800 MHz FM downlink with a simple handheld radio or you can listen online by using the SUWS WebSDR radio at <a href=\"http:\/\/websdr.suws.org.uk\/\" >http:\/\/websdr.suws.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tim Peake ISS School Contacts Announced <a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2015\/12\/15\/tim-peake-iss-school-contacts-announced\/\" >http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2015\/12\/15\/tim-peake-iss-school-contacts-announced\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Verulam Amateur Radio Club <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verulam-arc.org.uk\/\" >http:\/\/www.verulam-arc.org.uk\/<\/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=27638&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Amateur Radio school contact by UK astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS from the International Space Station (ISS) will take place on Friday, January 8, 2016 at 0847 GMT with students at Sandringham School, St. Albans in Hertfordshire. The school &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2015\/12\/30\/tim-peake-sandringham-school\/\">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=27638&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-238884","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\/238884","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=238884"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238983,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238884\/revisions\/238983"}],"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=238884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}