[One Country Boy]

Got my coffee and turned on the radio gear at 5 AM CT this morning. Just in time to hear a long pass by the ISS. Signal strength went from 1/3 scale on my TM-742a to full scale, then gradually faded out. Heard Mike and Ury (on the ISS) working Rhode Island, Louisianna and other stations. Very interesting stuff. I was wishing I had the uplink freq programmed in at the time. The astronaut was calling CQ several times, looking for stations to work. I guess it was a good time of the day, not many folks on the air unless they were trying to work the Space Station.