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ik2cmn – October 28, 2007 – 12:25

Dear friends,
today I returned home from Cape Canaveral where I assisted to the launch of Space Shutttle Discovery for the STS 120 Mission.
One of the crew memeber is my brother in low Paolo Nespoli,a very very special person for all his family and friends.
He is doing a great job on the ISS to deliver Node 2.
I really hope all things will go well till the landin of the orbiter!
A big ciao to all of you,
Mario,IK2CMN

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IK2CMN borther in law in ISS.

pd0rkc – October 28, 2007 – 16:23

Hello Mario,

Must been a special and exciting moment to see your brother
in law launching from Cape Canaveral.
I can see you are a amateur radio station IK2CMN, in case
you or your family members speaking with Paolo (by ISS VoIP) than
do us (and you) a favor and ask Poalo to make some radom contacts
via de ISS kenwood TM-D700 in his free time.

73's Cor PD0RKC

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IK2CMN brother in law in ISS

ik2cmn – October 28, 2007 – 20:23

Dear Cor,
it really was a great moment to see Paolo's and his fellows launch on October 28th.
I have to say that Paolo,even if he likes and appreciate a lot our hobby,isn't a radioamateur in the deep sense of the word.I don't know if he is able to make e true ham QSO!
You know that all the crew is very busy all day long to build new parts of the ISS so they haven't ,at the moment,spare time to spend.
This evening he calls me by phone from inside the ISS and I remember him his contact with the italian school on schedule for tomorrow.
I hope it will be a good one!
I often visit your web site,it's a very interesting one.
My contacts with ISS are only via packet APRS and now...by phone...hi...hi
Have a good time with our fantastic hobby!!
73s de IK2CMN,Mario

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Re:IK2CMN brother in law in ISS

pd0rkc – October 29, 2007 – 20:44

Hello Mario,

This morning I have received 2 audio files of the school contact.
I could not listen by myself live cause during that time I was at QRL.
I have published a audio file on my website which I received
from SWL Chris van den Berg (thank you Chris!).

N5VHO just told me that ARISS europe have complete recordings.
http://www.ariss-eu.org/2007_10_29.htm
Scroll down to download audio.

73's Cor PD0RKC
Ham Radio in Space: http://iss.ontwikkel.nl

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School contact

ik2cmn – October 29, 2007 – 22:29

Dear Cor,
thanks a lot for your message.I have received Paolo in very good conditions during the first part of his QSO but I lost the second for QRM on 145800 Mhz.
I e-mailed to Paolo all the good comments about his first ARISS contact.
I'll be on frequency for his second QSO with two other italian schools.
Thanks again,Ciao from Italy,
Mario,IK2CMN

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