{"id":15258,"date":"2016-06-03T13:08:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T13:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=15258"},"modified":"2016-06-03T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T13:09:39","slug":"europe-america-iss-bounce-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/front-page-news\/2016\/06\/03\/europe-america-iss-bounce-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe-North America ISS-bounce first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 2m signal from the UK was heard across the Atlantic on 2 May.<\/p>\n<p>It had been reflected off the structure of the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>Following two weeks of preparation, Tim, G4LOH, in Cornwall and Roger, VE1SKY, in Nova Scotia attempted a FSK441 contact.<\/p>\n<p>With a mutual window of less than one minute, VE1SKY was able to copy G4LOH at a distance of 4,441km.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first signal received via ISS-bounce from Europe to North America, and the first intentional signal heard via ISS reflection in any direction across the North or South Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2m signal from the UK was heard across the Atlantic on 2 May. It had been reflected off the structure of the International Space Station. Following two weeks of preparation, Tim, G4LOH, in Cornwall and Roger, VE1SKY, in Nova Scotia attempted a FSK441 contact. With a mutual window of less than one minute, VE1SKY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}