Today I had my first solo at 15 hrs , 3 full stop landings with my instructor went great and he cleared me to solo.

I dropped him off at the hangar and taxiied to the active runway. This was a controlled airport.

Everything went smooth, I took off did one pattern and then landed smoothly, exited the runway and changed to ground frequency .

I kept on calling my intentions but they were ignoring me I thought. I repeated around 8 times then I figured I have a radio failure. I could hear them but they could not.

I squaked 7600 and they told me to wait where I was and don't move, they told me they are sending ground unit.

Luckily My instructor forgot his headset plugged in so I reached over and tried from the other side and it worked. Ground could hear me and I could hear them. I taxiied back and it was all good but I only got 1 landing. There was a fault in the plane.

As much as I'm bummed out I didn't get my solo today, I am that much happy I was calm during the entire thing and got praised by the ground and instructor. This was an experience you can't buy and I got to experience it on my first solo.