The Bromley and District Amateur Radio Society

Amateur Radio On TV
by Paul G1ROK

There have been a few occasions that Amateur Radio has been featured on normal TV recently. Firstly CNN did a piece on "The Asian Tsunami and HamRadio" which follows the exploits of Indian Amateurs and their response to the disaster. This is an interesting and unbiased piece that makes good viewing and shows Amateur Radio in a very positive light, well worth the time to watch.

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On Friday May 13th, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno feature a message sending/receiving contest between a cell phone text messaging team and a morse code team.
The morse code team consist of Chip Margelli, K7JA and Ken Miller, K6CTW. Chip and Ken do a lot of contests and DXpeditions. Joe Drago, props manager for the show is KF6OCP.
Who do you think would win ?, Watch this piece to find out...

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On Tuesday 7th November ITV1 showed the Pride of Britain Awards in which the Teacher of the Year award was given to Head Teacher, Linda Davies, who has made going to school an 'out-of-this world' experience for pupils at Wiltshire's Neston Primary School.

They were the first school in Britain to speak to an astronaut in space using Amateur Radio during a ten-minute question and answer session from their moonbase-themed classroom. the full video of the contact can be seen here.

Click Here To Watch... (10:09 Runtime) All Clips are encoded in Microsoft Windows Media 9, Broadband is required. All copyrights are acknowledged.