{"id":239691,"date":"2016-02-26T18:02:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T22:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=28126"},"modified":"2016-02-26T18:02:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T22:02:16","slug":"news-reports-of-norwich-school-amateur-radio-contact-with-tim-peake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=239691","title":{"rendered":"News reports of Norwich school amateur radio contact with Tim Peake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_28134\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28134\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/students-used-amateur-radio-to-speak-to-tim-peake-credit-city-of-norwich-school.jpg?w=593\" alt=\"Students used amateur radio to speak to Tim Peake - Credit City of Norwich School\"   \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students used amateur radio to speak to Tim Peake &#8211; Credit City of Norwich School<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>ITV News has broadcast a report about the amateur radio contact between City of Norwich School GB2CNS and UK astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS which took place February 26,2016.<\/p>\n<p>The pupils asked a range of questions from &#8216;what happens to the blood if you cut yourself in space&#8217; to &#8216;what&#8217;s your favourite place to fly over&#8217; to &#8216;what sort of experiments are you doing in space&#8217;? The 10 minute live link up was made possible by the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) team.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the ITV News report at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/anglia\/2016-02-26\/science-lesson-for-norfolk-pupils-that-is-out-of-this-world\/\">http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/anglia\/2016-02-26\/science-lesson-for-norfolk-pupils-that-is-out-of-this-world\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ARISS Principia site <a href=\"https:\/\/principia.ariss.org\/\" >https:\/\/principia.ariss.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is Amateur Radio? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/what-is-amateur-radio\" >http:\/\/www.essexham.co.uk\/what-is-amateur-radio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find an amateur radio training course near you <a href=\"https:\/\/thersgb.org\/services\/coursefinder\/\" >https:\/\/thersgb.org\/services\/coursefinder\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A free booklet is available aimed at introducing newcomers to the hobby that can also be used as a handy reference while getting started, see<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-started-in-amateur-radio\/alex-discovers-amateur-radio-2\/\" >http:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/get-started-in-amateur-radio\/alex-discovers-amateur-radio-2\/<\/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=28126&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITV News has broadcast a report about the amateur radio contact between City of Norwich School GB2CNS and UK astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS which took place February 26,2016. The pupils asked a range of questions from &lsquo;what happens to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/02\/26\/news-reports-norwich-school-tim-peake\/\">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=28126&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-239691","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\/239691","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=239691"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239716,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239691\/revisions\/239716"}],"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=239691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}