I just had a brief contact with the ISS- Richard Garriot as NA1SS at 15:04 UTC. His father, Owen Garriot was the first astronaut to take ham gear into space, and Richard, while he was physically unqualified for astronaut training, was able to buy a trip after becoming a successful computer game designer.
Here's the track of ISS when I worked it (copied from heavens-above.com):