First School HAM Radio Contact With Tim Peake On Board The International Space Station

It has been announced that the first UK School HAM Radio contact with astronaut Tim Peake will take place on Friday 8th January 2016 at 08:47 GMT with students at Sandringham School, St Albans. The School will use the callsign GB1SAN.

Anyone with a VHF receiver/scanner/transceiver should be able to hear the Space Station transmissions on 145.800 MHz (+/- 3.5KHz due to the Doppler shift).

Read the full article on the Southgate Amateur Radio News website: LINK

President Jackson 2 Chrome CB Radio Receive (FM/SSB)

President Jackson 2 Chrome CB Radio - EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK!

The World first look at the President Jackson 2 Chrome Classic CB Radio!

President Jackson 2 CHROME - World's First Photos!

So the rumours appear to be correct (Someone did buy one!) and here we have it, the first pictures of an actual President Jackson 2 CHROME in the real world!

Looks like a lovely radio for sure and very difficult to get your hands on due to a limited supply. 

Out of the box it has all the usual Multi EU bands with 4 watts AM/FM and 12 watts SSB, and can of course be set to EXPORT mode with a little extra output power.

It remains to be seen if this radio will become a truly 'classic' President. Only time will tell!