Had my first contact with the ISS and spoke to Andre, PI9ISS. The recording is only of him speaking, but although a first for me, I think Andre's said it was his first contact to The UK. Hope I get the QSL card to put as pride of place in my Shack

Paul Waddington
M6WAD

Please join us in listening to the ISS contact with participants at the
ESA - ESTEC Event, Noordwijk, Netherlands on Monday February 27, 2011 at 1245 UTC.

Astronaut André Kuipers PI9ISS was calling CQ from the International Space Station on 145.800 MHz FM on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon, Feb. 25-26.

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contacts
2. ARISS Contact Featured at John Glenn Event
3. Italian Students Experience ARISS Contact
4. ARISS International Team Teleconference Held
5. Astronaut Training Status

1. Upcoming School Contacts

Congratulation the students of the 1° Circolo Didattico Nicola Fornelli Bitonto in Italy
and Don Pettit for the successful ARISS-Contact.

By this recording you can hear a part of my receipt.
Received on 145.800 MHZ in FM
in JN77sn.

vy 73 to ALL de Christian
(SWL-CHMY)

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contact
2. Kochi Youth Radio ISS Astronaut
3. Astronaut Dan Burbank Speaks with Louisville Students
4. Astronaut Training Status

1. Upcoming School Contact
1° Circolo Didattico Nicola Fornelli located in Bitonto, Italy has been scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Friday, February 24 at 14:01 UTC. The contact will be an integral part of student studies covering life in space, communications, space conquests and research, artificial satellites and the ISS.

2. Kochi Youth Radio ISS Astronaut

12:58 13:07 UTC - 20 Feb 2012
All the messages inside ISS mail box
Notice the wrong date and time stamp :)

The ISS is so quite over Africa except some traffic
from SV1HFY and YU7RD at the end of SW –> NE pass.
I’m planing to reactivate my Igate soon.

Msg# Size TS Date Time From To @ BBS Subject

63 189 28-Mar/1321 ST2NH >DK3WN hello dear Mike
62 145 B$ 28-Mar/1409 KG4CEO>ALL hi
61 30 B$ 28-Mar/1237 KG4CEO>ALL all
60 190 B$ 28-Mar/1231 KG4CEO>ALL all
59 192 B$ 28-Mar/0919 KG4CEO>ALL HELLO
58 30 28-Mar/0810 ST2NH >EA1JM HELLO

Dan Burbank making a school contact
Good signal 5-9 +20 over Germany
145.800 Mhz - 14.02.2012 20.21-20.27 Utc
Locator JO50MX Antenna HB9CV
- QSO ON4ISS - OR4ISS -
73 papafan

The Expedition 30 crew members living and working aboard the International Space Station conducted a spacewalk dress rehearsal and a series of robotics tests Tuesday. They also worked with a variety of scientific research from around the world and continued the upkeep and maintenance of the systems aboard the orbiting laboratory.

Gearing up for Thursday’s spacewalk, Flight Engineers Oleg Kononenko and Anton Shkaplerov of the International Space Station’s Expedition 30 crew installed new sensors in their Orlan spacesuits and conducted a translation exercise in the Pirs docking compartment’s airlock Monday. The exercise tested their mobility in advance of a dress rehearsal to test the suits’ systems on Tuesday.