{"id":239497,"date":"2016-02-12T15:27:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T19:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=28012"},"modified":"2016-02-12T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T19:27:16","slug":"radio-ham-on-bbc-radio-norfolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=239497","title":{"rendered":"Radio ham on BBC Radio Norfolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_27934\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/tim-peake-kg5bvi-prepares-for-spacewalk-2015-01-11.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27934\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27934\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/tim-peake-kg5bvi-prepares-for-spacewalk-2015-01-11.jpg?w=300&#038;h=200\" alt=\"Tim Peake KG5BVI preparing for his spacewalk in January\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Peake KG5BVI preparing for his spacewalk in January<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Steve Nichols G0KYA<\/strong> got some good publicity for amateur radio by letting his local media outlets know he had received a signal from Tim Peake on the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>He was lucky enough to hear astronaut Tim Peake&#8217;s ISS contact with another UK school on Thursday, February 11, 2016. Not only did he record it, but he sent out a press release and ended up being interviewed about it by BBC Radio Norfolk on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Steve says: <em>&#8220;If you do hear and record Tim do contact your local media as they are fascinated by the whole business and it brings good PR for amateur radio in general.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read Steve&#8217;s blog post and listen to a recording of his interview at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/g0kya.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/02\/radio-norfolk-interview-about-tim-peake.html\" >http:\/\/g0kya.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/02\/radio-norfolk-interview-about-tim-peake.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>January &#8211; Local newspaper reports reception of Tim Peake on ISS<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/01\/13\/local-paper-tim-peake-iss\/\" >http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/01\/13\/local-paper-tim-peake-iss\/<\/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=28012&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Nichols G0KYA got some good publicity for amateur radio by letting his local media outlets know he had received a signal from Tim Peake on the ISS. He was lucky enough to hear astronaut Tim Peake&rsquo;s ISS contact with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/02\/12\/radio-ham-on-bbc-radio-norfolk\/\">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=28012&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-239497","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\/239497","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=239497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239498,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239497\/revisions\/239498"}],"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=239497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}