Hi everyone,,,I'm new to this,,,I made a 2meter copper slim jim antenna yesterday,and ,no friday I mean,,and heard the ISS communicating with people on 145,800.
I was facinated!!!
I can just listen to HAM now,,as I'm nearing the end of a course,,and will be ready soon to take my basic exam,,,should be early April.

Getting to the point,lol,,,,has anyone ever heard of Ham Radio Deluxe?
A friend of mine sent me the link,and I downloaded it,,,,he has the ISS on his map,,plus alot of interesting stuff.
I'm not great with computers,so,I'm still learning how to use it,lol.
Anyway,I'm enjoying the site you have here,,and just wanted to pass on the name of the HRD site also as it might also be a help to someone.

The 10 crew members aboard space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 12:08 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, March 24.

U.S. reporters may ask questions in person from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Headquarters in Washington. Questions also will be taken from Russian reporters at Mission Control, Moscow, and Japanese reporters at Johnson.

To participate in the news conference, U.S. journalists must call the public affairs office at their preferred NASA center by 1 p.m. Monday. Media must be in place at participating locations at least 20 minutes prior to the start of the news conference.

NASA has a variety of resources available for Spanish-speaking media interested in covering the ongoing space shuttle mission. The shuttle crew includes Puerto Rican astronaut Joseph Acaba, a former teacher who is now a fully-trained spacewalker.

For Spanish versions of status reports about the STS-119 mission to the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts119/news/sp...

For biographical information about current and former Hispanic astronauts, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/spacesuits/careercorner