Somebody is calling me from Space

I had weird dream before I wake up this morning. I dreamt that I was holding a hand held radio waiting for International Space Station pass over Kuwait in one hour but I heard astronaut Bill McArthur calling on the radio as I was testing the antenna. He he he Weird!



I have tried zillion times to talk to astronaut Bill since the beginning of this year but I had many failed contacts with him. I always hear him calling me over the radio since my friends in Europe told him to call for 9K2MD and look for a young lady in Kuwait. So when the International Space Station pass over Kuwait, he start calling for ME! Wow, that is so special to get a call from an astronaut in space. As soon I heard him calling, I got nervous, giving directions to my sister on directing the antenna. I replied him, but he seems he totally didn’t hear my call. And he kept calling me on and on and on until the end of the pass.

“What’s the hell happened?” I thought the problem was with my microphone. The next pass, same problem too. Bill just cannot hear my call. The next day too, Bill was calling me and he doesn’t hear me. It kept like that for 7 times I guess which I hear Bill on the radio and he doesn’t hear me at all. I found out that the CPU of my radio transceiver doesn’t work probably. DAMN!

Hmmm I like astronaut Bill because he never stopped calling me on the radio and never give up that I may reply him one day when my radio get fixed. He is a cool man.

By the way, I really appreciate the moment when I had a successful radio contact with cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev… It was such a rare contact with Krikalev ;)

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