eHam.net News – An astronaut flew over San Bruno on Wednesday and revealed to the 800 earthlings below that he wears socks to work, eats lasagna and spent part of this week fixing the space station toilet. And the Internet doesn’t work any better in near-zero gravity than it does on Earth, spaceman Scott Tingle said. All 3 hostages, gunman dead at Yountville veterans home Editorial: On North Korea, Trump is right Source: 49ers agree to terms on 3-year deal with Richard Sherman Oakland coffee shop refuses to serve police officers — and… Seeing San Francisco through new eyes after trip to tidy D.C. Does the Ferry Building still reflect the Bay Area’s food… The Warriors once drafted a woman to play in the NBA: Here’s… “It’s very slow,” he said. “But it’s better than nothing.” The 11-minute shortwave radio conversation with Tingle — orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station — was the biggest thing to hit Parkside Intermediate School in some time. That’s because classes were canceled while Tingle spoke from 250 miles overhead on his special radio hookup. Students and teachers crammed into the school’s gym, where local ham radio clubs had set up their equipment. Principal Kerry Dees blew a whistle and called the proceedings to order. She declared it a great day in the history of the mighty Parkside Panthers. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Dees said. “This is beyond your imagination!” And then a dozen students trooped up to a bank of shortwave radios and read their questions into the mike. Each student had been instructed to say “over” at the end of each question, so that Tingle — who was fed the questions in advance — could rattle off his answers. All eyes were on the clock, because radio contact with the space station would last only about 11 minutes. At the precise moment, the radio folks twiddled their dials and history arrived at Parkside over frequency 145.805 megahertz.
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