Today the German Federal Chancellors Angela Merkel had during an attendance with the ESA a contact with ISS. She conversed thereby with Thomas Reiter. Mrs. Merkel inquired about the life on board ISS and about the continuation of the experiments. Mrs. Merkel assured a heightening of the budget for the space research.

Hi all,

i'm a total newbie of digital modes... the question is this: i have mixw software coupled "on air" :) (so PC mic near receiver hearphone..) and i take good decoding of bpsk31, rtty, cw over all the HF spectrum.

Since i receive with a home made dipole the packet signal @145.800 FM every ISS pass from s3 to s8-9, i have any chance to do the same work of other modes letting Mixw in Packet mode and audio "air coupled" ?? I try, but burst frames is too short to understand if i'm ok in the waterfall and other settings...

Thanks and apologise for my very-very-newbie-question.

Cristiano, Italy in JN61sp, IC706MKIIg and dipoles, dipoles, dipoles :)