[amsat-bb] Pilton School ARISS Contact - Friday 6th February 2009

[Ciaran Morgan]

Folks,

 

Despite the UK being in the grip of the worst snow for nearly 20 years, the
UK ARISS team of Carlos Eavis G0AKI, Howard Long G6LVB and assisted by
Ciaran Morgan (M0XTD) helped pull of a stunning direct contact between
Sandra Magnus on board the ISS using callsign OR4ISS and Pilton The Bluecoat
Primary School in Barnstable, England (callsign G0NPV) on  Friday 6th
February at 1452hrs UTC.

 

Contact was established right on time and the children at Pilton managed to
get all 20 questions asked with no difficulty.  The replies from Sandra
where heard over most of Western Europe.

 

Videos of the contact can be found at 

 

http://www.it-sparkles.co.uk/ARISS/pilton.aspx (single page with multiple
links for FLV (YouTube), MOV (Quicktime) and WMV (MS Windows devices)).

 

Howard Long has also produced some additional formats as follows 

 

Sound - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.mp3 (1.1Mb)

 

Video WMV 320x240 - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.wmv (70Mb) Suitable
for a Windows Mobile device

 

Video MP4 480x320 - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.mp4 (70Mb) Suitable
for an iPhone

 

Video Flash 320x240 - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.flv (32Mb) YouTube
quality

 

 

Enjoy!

 

Regards

Ciaran Morgan

M0XTD