ASTRONAUT SOICHI NOGUCHI TALKS TO ABRAMOWSKI SCHOOL IN
KATOWICE, POLAND
Edward Abramowski Technical and Comprehensive Schools Complex no. 3 in Katowice
consists of a Technical High School offering two faculties, Photography and IT
Electronics, and a Comprehensive School with teaching programmes covering
mathematics, IT, journalism and photography. In 1999 the
The radio contact coordinator Jerzy Zajda SP9BGS and his technical team set up
a satellite station with automatic antenna tracking as well as a backup
vertical antenna.
Contact between SN0ISS and OR4ISS was established at
The audience was about 350 listeners: students, parents, teachers, mass-media
representatives, interested parties and VIP's such as the Governor of the
All the attendees were very excited and they felt a great relief when they get
connected with the ISS. It was an unforgettable moment for everybody.
Unfortunately, this contact took place at a very exceptional moment for the
Polish people, they lost their President as well as
many other authorities in a plane crash exactly 48 hours before the event. The
audience was very touched when Soichi sent them his condolences.
The signal from the ISS was almost always clear and loud.
4 TV channels, 3 radio stations, 4 newspapers and a European photo agency
covered the event.
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Peter Kofler, IN3GHZ
ARISS mentor
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