Bopping through the wild blue, Amateur Radio Field Day makes a connection
The Kennebunk-based New England Radio Discussion Society facilitated a talk between Sea Road School students and an International Space Station in January.
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The New England Radio Discussion Society will host a field day to which the public is invited 2 to 5 p.m. June 26 outside at The New School in Kennebunk. Above, members Susan Bloomfield and John Nowacki set up at a prior event.
Courtesy photo
KENNEBUNK – Interest in amateur, often called “ham” radio began at the turn of the 20th century. It was a way people could talk to each other, across town or across the world.
Sea Road students chat ‘long distance’ to astronaut on the International Space Station
Amateur radio and the internet made the conversation with astronaut Michael Hopkins possible.
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Sea Road School students chatted with NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins aboard the International Space Station on Thursday, Jan. 21. The screenshot shows students who asked the questions, an image of the astronaut, and some of those who helped make the link work.
Ann Stockbridge courtesy photo
KENNEBUNK – How did NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins feel when, in space, he looked back and saw the earth for the first time?
“Overwhelmed,” he told students at Sea Road School students on Thursday.
The Sea Road School direct student International Space Station contact is set for 1:27 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 21. Sea Road School serves more than 300 third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students. For its part, the New England Radio Discussion Society, a Maine radio club comprised of Federally-licensed radio amateurs, known as ham radio operators, initiated plans […]