At 08:27 PM 6/26/2010 -0700, patrick@aceweb.com wrote:

How about letting us know why there are no casual contacts anymore and only rehearsed and choreographed public shows. I read many times about how busy the astronauts are but it is glaringly apparent they have no interest or are refraining from unrehearsed contacts. They could at least turn on the cross band repeater. The navy had enough control over the amateur radio with the packet. Frankly, I am personally no longer interested in talking to the astronauts but the repeater was a lot of fun. Someone please make it happen.

A mere citizen

pat

I was thinking about this, and you know I've never have made a contact with anyone the ISS. There were a few times I could have fired up the mfj-1278 and done some digi, but even that hasn't been turned on much.

I didn't monitor to see if they were on for FD.

KB7ADL