Thanks for the help.  
   I just tried another mission, the Street Sweeper.  I checked the mission planner and the flight freq is 225 channel 1.  After starting the sim, I checked to be sure I was on the right channel and tried talking to my wingman.  He answered back, yeh.  When we took off he went the other direction and I couldn't talk to him any more.  I tried again and the same thing happened.  I tried a third time, thinking maybe I shouldn't talk to my wingman prior to take off.  So I took off and he just stayed on the runway.  After I took off I couldn't reach him again.  I recorded the track to see my actions.  When I watched the recording back, my wingman took off but didn't do any thing.  Do you think I have a problem with my module?  Is anyone else having similar problems.  I have other aircraft I can fly, but don't want to try if nothing is going to work right.   
   Any help is appreciated...