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

[Fabiano Moser - PY5RX]

Good video !

Very good ARISS School contact, congratulations, it was a big sucess.

I´m sure Sandy loved to hear the applause of students,

73
Fabiano Moser CT/PY5RX
ARISS-PORTUGAL (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station)
Representative at Teleconference and Portugal Telebridge Coordinator.
AMRAD/AMSAT-CT
http://www.amrad.pt/



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ciaran Morgan" <ciaran at it-sparkles.co.uk>
To: <        >
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:26 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Pilton School ARISS Contact - Friday 6th February 2009


> 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
>
>
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> 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
>
>
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> Sound - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.mp3 (1.1Mb)
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> Video WMV 320x240 - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.wmv (70Mb) Suitable
> for a Windows Mobile device
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>
>
> Video MP4 480x320 - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.mp4 (70Mb) Suitable
> for an iPhone
>
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> Video Flash 320x240 - http://www.g6lvb.com/images/pilton.flv (32Mb) 
> YouTube
> quality
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> Enjoy!
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>
>
> Regards
>
> Ciaran Morgan
>
> M0XTD
>
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