"DARN COMPUTERS!!!" Another "Corrected" VK5MIR Voice Transcript June 5, 1998 @ 2154UTC

[kd4sff@xxxxxxxx (Albert K Lark)]

I finally settled down enough to write a transcript.   
Andy has a wonderfully cheerful Australian accent!

6/5/98 2154 UTC on 145.985 MHz FM simplex:

W5RRR this is R0MIR, do you copy? Over.
W5RRR this is R0MIR, do you copy? Over.
W5RRR this is R0MIR, do you copy? Over.

Andy, If you give me their phone number, I'll give them a  call, so you
can 
contact them next pass round.  KD4SFF.

This is R0MIR,  thanks very much, but don't sweat it.  I was just
noticing we 
were passing over at this time, and thought that maybe they'd be up, but 
they're not.  They wouldn't be at the radio station anyway.  So even if
we did 
get in touch with them by phone, they would't be able to get there in
time 
anyway.  How copy? Over.

I've got a real good copy here.  This is Al, in Greenville, South
Carolina.  
I know you're real excited about coming home,  and I'm certainly excited
about 
getting hold of you.  What's the first thing you want to do when you get
back 
down home, Andy?

Al, well I think a hot shower is going to feel pretty good. I've been
washing 
my hair with a no rinse shampoo for four months, and using body bath to
clean 
up with.  So I think a decent hot shower is going to be the first order
of 
business.  Of course it's going to depend on how I feel.  You know it's
going 
to be a bit of an adjustment.  I may not feel like too much for a while.
Over.

Roger - Roger Andy.  Well I won't hold you.  I know a lot of other hams
have 
heard you on the air, and are certainly going to want and try to work
you.  
So just try to pick out a callsign.  I know it's real tough to, I'm
running a 
lot of power, that's probably why I'm getting thru to you.  But I want to

thank you very much!  If you could come back with my callsign one time,
and 
I'll go with yours "VK5MIR".  That's a real neat callsign, Andy.  And
I'll be 
looking for you coming back.  My call is KD4SFF, Kilo Delta Four Serria 
Foxtrot Foxtrot. Over.

KD4SFF, copy that. Yeah, the VK5 is my Australian callsign, which they
gave me 
for this flight.  So it was pretty decent of them.  OK, well thanks for
the 
contact.  Now you take care and have a good weekend.  VK5MIR Clear.

(After much hooping and hollering, I listened to the rest of the pass -
which 
I always tape)
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This is R0MIR calling N3SZX, calling N3SZX, how do you copy? Over.
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WH6LR this is R0MIR. Greetings. Over.

Doing just fine.  There's a lot of people trying to connect with me, and
I'm 
trying to do voice with them, but they step on each other, and I can't
pick 
out a callsigns!  Yours was the first I was able to pick out.  But I
heard all 
of this chatter.  All these people I'd like to talk to...but they're
stepping 
on each other, and I can't pick out callsigns.  So it's kind of hard, but
you 
came thru well there. WA6LR, how are things tonight? Over.

I copy that WA6LR.  Thanks very much.  I'm looking forward to being back
on 
the ground in about a week's time.  You have a good weekend.  ROMIR
Clear.

.............................................................................

AA2DR this is R0MIR.

Copy that.  I remember your callsign.  You don't often get a double A
prefix 
callsign when your over the US.  So I remember yours, so that's good.  A 
pleasure to talk to you.  And you know I'm coming back in about a week's
time.  
I'll be leaving MIR in a few days. So I won't be doing much voice.  So I
want 
to do more contacts. Let me wish you well.  How copy? Over.

I copy that, our pleasure.  And you guys have given me a lot of pleasure 
during my time up here of course.  So thanks to all of you as well, and
all 
the Amateur Radio Community around the World for that matter.  There are
some 
other calls I do want to try and get, one call in particularly.  So if
you 
don't mind, I'll clear off now, and wish you well, and say, R0MIR Clear.

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R0MIR is calling N3SZX, calling N3SZX, do you copy? Over.

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N8YKG go ahead for R0MIR.

N1PPP stand by for one moment.

R0MIR calling N8YKG. Over

R0MIR calling N1PPP.  Go ahead.

WF1F go ahead for R0MIR.

I'm doing fine.  Glad to get you Miles.  I want to thank you for your
help.  
You know I'm coming back at the end of the week, so probably not be much
more 
voice opportunities.  In fact I'll be leaving MIR in a few days.  It may
be 
the last time I'll be doing voice.  So let me take a moment to wish you
well, 
and thank you for your support.  How copy? Over.

Miles, best wishes to you...........................

.............................................................................
TNX & 73,
Al Lark / KD4 Super Flying Fortress
Experimenters Group ARC / Amsat Area Coordinator / kd4sff@amsat.org
  PS:  It looks like I'll again be operating from the B-29 "Fifi", this
time 
  at the Charleston International Airport in SC. on Labor Day Weekend.
The 
  CAF's B-24 "Diamond Lil" will also be there.  See April 97 QST pg. 40 &
41. 


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