2:20pm Wednesday 24th March 2010
By Richard Vernalls
LUCKY youngsters have been taking turns talking to people in continental Europe.
Pupils at St Barnabas CE Primary School, Green Lane, Worcester, were using a radio to speak with operators in Luxembourg and Germany.
The children picked up the receiver under callsign GB1NSW as part of National Science Week.
Worcester Radio Amateurs turned out with lots of high-tech equipment to help pupils with their topic of space and telecommunication, including a Second World War communications trailer.
There were also kites with aerials, real-time satelite-imagery of weather patterns taken from above the school and youngsters had the chance to use radio waves to track hidden receivers.
During the rest of the week, the boys and girls had a look around an inflatable planetarium and had a non-uniform day inspired by the theme of space.
Headteacher Angela Deakin said: “They learned how to communicate via radio, and it was interesting to hear the different accents of the operators.
“It helps them understand a lot of things, like the principles behind radio waves, and gets them interested in what is an important subject.”
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