Rick,

Glad to get you through the ISS. Not only did we make the exchange using APRS messages from our TH-D72A HTs, our HTs sent the ACKs as we received each other's messages which were retransmitted by the ISS digipeater. In the log, and now in Logbook of the World if you use that system.

This was fun! Not much time for radio this weekend, but QSOs through the ISS digipeater with my TH-D72A as well as SO-50 and AO-85 with my KG-UV9D HT. Not bad! Maybe I'll work you next weekend from somewhere in southern Nevada...

73!

Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Rick Tejera saguaroastro@cox.net wrote:

Patrick,

Thanks for working me, My First APRS QSO via the ISS. I also heard KK6QMS & W5PFG and sent them messages, but got no responses, Don't know if they heard me or not or if it was just too busy, but either way I finally got on the board and That makes it a successful day of ham radio for me.. Now if I can only find my downlink on an SSB bird........

Rick Tejera (K7TEJ)