Hi Bill,
Although I have the rig and antenna to do it, I've never worked the sats,
but have listened to them a few times.
You can go to this link and get an e-mail either weekly or several times a
week that will let you know when a particular sat (or more than one) will
be overhead at your qth. You need to tell them your location and what
sats you want to track:
visit:
http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/JPass/Pass
As for other modes, I've been working some RTTY over the past year and a
half. Several hundred QSO's and around 100 countries. Using JAWS and MMTTY
software.
You can get JAWS to read calls correctly by going into configuration
manager/text processing and under " spell alpha numeric data" select " spell
phonetically".
This was added to JAWS a few versions back, but don't remember what version
it was added, so if running an older version you won't see this option.
73, Steve KW3A