Hi , I was fortunate enough to work NA1SS Col. Doug Wheelock on the ISS today at 1957 UTC 10 Jul 2010. Loud as can be 144.485 Up / 145.805 Down. He was over Houston Tx at the time. My son Will was very excited to say hi to the Astronaut !!

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Bill
KE5ZGI

[quote=va7iss]Wednesday July 7th 12:45am PDT Heard ISS calling KD5??? station tried calling back. No answer. Kept calling for duration of pass still no response. Unknown why no response. Could it be pre-arranged call? Miffed to say the least. Really wanted contact as I have never had contact with ISS before in all my 25 years of being a ham radio operator, which was why I became one. I was also at a star party with fellow amateur astronomers listening. Well maybe next time. [/quote] same thing happened over New England 2 days ago, ISS finished up with a school contact and starting calling for any station but no one was able to contact the iss. this could be because the radio was still setup for the school contact on their direct link and not the regular region 2 frequencies. possible the same happened to u?

I got lucky and got a QSO with NA1SS and spoke with Cmdr. Doug Wheelock. He has worked TX and East coast stations before me (sorry don't have their calls and didn't record). I've expected a bit of a pileup, but he was calling CQ NA in a very relaxed manner. QSL is going out tomorrow! Anybody has any estimates of the QSL turnaround time at ARRL HQ? Tnx.

I was tuned in to the ISS at the same time and heard the station. I attempted to make contact though I don't have a yagi set up yet and the J-Pole i have didn't seem to make it up there