Tim Peake is the first UK sponsored astronaut and joined the ISS on 15th December 2015. Since then, he has been busy getting to grips with life in space and carrying out his many responsibilities as a scientist on this important mission. Tim is very keen to promote Science/Technology/English/Maths STEM subjects through his work in space, and has allocated some time to talk to students at ten schools across England during his stay. Sandringham successfully bid for this opportunity and has been allocated the first slot - Friday 8th January 2016.
The contact will be made via amateur radio and ten students will have the opportunity to pose questions to Tim as he flies overhead on the ISS. The contact will be established at 8.47 a.m. on the Friday morning and the plan is for a live audience of around 250 watching the event, together with live streaming through the web to all students and staff at the school. Also BATC site.

Frequencies in Use


The following frequencies are currently used for Amateur Radio ISS contacts (QSOs): Voice and SSTV Downlink: 145.80 (Worldwide)
Voice Uplink: 144.49 for ITU Regions 2 and 3 (The Americas, and the Pacific and Southern Asia)
Voice Uplink: 145.20 for ITU Region 1 (Europe, Russia and Africa)
VHF Packet Uplink and Downlink: 145.825 (Worldwide)
UHF Packet Uplink and Downlink: 437.550
UHF/VHF Repeater Uplink: 437.80
UHF/VHF Repeater Downlink: 145.80


Most ARISS operations are split-frequency (each station uses separate receive and transmit frequencies). The downlink is the earth station's receiving frequency. The uplink is the earth station's transmitting frequency. Earth stations can listen to the downlink frequency and transmit on the uplink frequency when the ISS is in range and crew members are on the air. Please do not transmit on the ISS downlink frequency.