{"id":800424,"date":"2026-01-30T08:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800424"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:10:29","slug":"wick-high-school-students-to-contact-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800424","title":{"rendered":"Wick High School students to contact ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-36459\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_20380\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-20380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">International Space Station \u2013 Image Credit NASA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Students at Wick High School in East Caithness have been chosen by ARISS International to have an amateur radio contact with an astronaut on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Wick High School Radio Club @GM0WHS<\/strong> posted on X:<br \/><em>HUGE NEWS FROM @wickhigh<\/em><br \/><em>Pupils from all across East Caithness will be talking to an astronaut later this year! We\u2019re really humbled to have been chosen by @ARISS_Intl for a scheduled contact with the Space Station.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The radio club is led by Computing Science teacher <strong>Chris Aitken MM0WIC @skipperAitken<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The John O\u2019Groat Journal says:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBecause of Wick\u2019s far-north location, this contact is likely to be one of the most northerly direct educational links with the ISS ever attempted. The station will appear around 25 degrees above the southern horizon, travelling west to east, making the contact both spectacular and technically demanding.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the full story in the John O\u2019Grout Journal at<br \/><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Wick High School Radio Club on X<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow ARISS International on X<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow AMSAT-UK on X<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\tBy Editor<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sep\"> \u2022 <\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cat-links\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tPosted in Daily Updates\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"sep\"> \u2022 <\/span><span class=\"tag-links\">Tagged Amateur Radio, ARISS, Ham Radio, ISS, Space Station<\/span><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p><!-- #entry-meta -->\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2026\/01\/30\/wick-high-school-students-to-contact-iss\/?rand=772143\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Space Station \u2013 Image Credit NASA Students at Wick High School in East Caithness have been chosen by ARISS International to have an amateur radio contact with an astronaut&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800424","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\/800424","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=800424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}