Dustin Davis 5th grade Stone Creek Elementary

My first QSO with NA1SS Today!!!! Wav file link posted...

From ARRL:
ISS commander continues to set on-the-air records (Feb 10, 2006) -- International Space Station Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, has topped 100 entities in his effort to complete DXCC from space. "Bill was able to work a few more stations prior to and just after the space walk that deployed SuitSat-1 and now has exceeded the 100 mark," says Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Ham Radio Project Engineer Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO.

After an almost six-hour spacewalk last week, the crew began the week with a little time off and then returned to science investigations,
routine maintenance and equipment tests.

Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev spent the weekend restoring the station to its normal layout after the spacewalk.

Received by Kenneth N5VHO:
This past week had three school contacts on Cmdr. Bill McArthur's schedule,
including two contacts on Tuesday on subsequent orbits. By the end of the
last contact, Bill had made his 24th successful contact. That contact breaks
the previous record of 23 set by Leroy Chiao during Expedition 10.

Received from Kenneth N5VHO:
I was able to hear the "...SuitSat-1...RS0RS..." and recognized portions of
the the Alexander Alexandrov message.

The equipment was an Arrow antenna and D7 with the squelch open. I had a 61
degree elevation pass and only heard it during about 35 seconds either side
of TCA.