In his own words in this video [1] you can hear Adrian Lane, 2E0SDR, say he contacted the ISS "in October of last year."

I think everyone thought this happened in the last few weeks, even AMSAT-UK who said he talked to Kjell Lindgren [2] who only just went into space last month. I was really excited thinking Kjell was going to be the next Doug Wheelock but now it seems this, at least, is not a sign of that.

Why did this get all over the media *now* ?

John Brier, KG4AKV, FM05, Raleigh, NC

1) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3186534/Radio-ham-contacts-Internati... 2) http://amsat-uk.org/2015/08/05/uk-radio-hams-iss-contact-in-the-press/