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Ham Radio Activity => QRP => Topic started by: IZ5ZCO on January 17, 2014, 15:52:16 UTC

Title: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: IZ5ZCO on January 17, 2014, 15:52:16 UTC
I have worked a few continents, but never Antarctica


I don't use eQSL and I have only one QSL card!  ;D

(https://www.qrpclub.org/foto/qsl1.jpg)
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: DF5WW on January 17, 2014, 16:16:11 UTC
Have not "Antarctica" by eQSL but by paper 2 times. We have chapter evening 2day but will scan the 2 DP0POL if i´m back  ;D ;)
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: G0BVZ on January 17, 2014, 18:02:24 UTC
I have worked a few continents, but never Antarctica


I don't use eQSL and I have only one QSL card!  ;D

([url]https://www.qrpclub.org/foto/qsl1.jpg[/url])


Bravissimo, maestro!!   ;D
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: G0BVZ on January 17, 2014, 18:23:32 UTC
Have not "Antarctica" by eQSL but by paper 2 times. We have chapter evening 2day but will scan the 2 DP0POL if i´m back  ;D ;)

Ist das fantastisch, oder was? Gratulation!!  ;D

Vic /who collected DOK when in AGCW & DiG...... but no more.....
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: GM0LVI on January 17, 2014, 23:21:03 UTC
I'm QSL manager for VP8GAV who was active from several bases in Antarctica back in the early 1990s, and this week I'd an email enquiry from a UA8... asking about the possibility of sending him a card confirming a contact back in 1991!!!! I mailed it today free of charge.
I've worked quite a lot of Antarctic bases and used to have regular skeds with three of them, but my most treasured QSL is one from VP8CMR in 1993. It was the last year that dog teams were allowed in Antarctica and Nigel was out in the field /DSM - Dog Sled Mobile, running 10 Watts into a dipole on ski poles!
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: VE2TH on January 18, 2014, 00:34:14 UTC

I worked the Falklands VP8,

 DP1POL Neumayer Station III, 20M CW

DT8A South Shetland Is King George is, the King Sejong, Korean base 30 M CW

And a few others.

By the way, if you need more informations about Antartic and Artic as well, check this web site:

http://www.french-polar-team.fr/index.php (http://www.french-polar-team.fr/index.php)

You will find a lot of informations, very instructive,

72 Michel

Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: IZ5ZCO on January 18, 2014, 00:53:43 UTC
By the way, if you need more informations about Antartic and Artic as well, check this web site:

[url]http://www.french-polar-team.fr/index.php[/url] ([url]http://www.french-polar-team.fr/index.php[/url])

You will find a lot of informations, very instructive,

72 Michel


Thanks, Michel, for your excellent "signaling activity" I name you lighthouse keeper.  ;) :-*
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: VE2TH on January 18, 2014, 01:10:24 UTC

Hey, thank you very much Nicola, Grazié Millé ,  ;D it is a great honor,

I love lighthouses, and during the summer months we do some activation. 

Ciao,

Michel VE2TH QRP

Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: IZ5ZCO on January 18, 2014, 01:19:28 UTC
I love lighthouses, and during the summer months we do some activation. 


I love them too! This is the lighthouse that I see from my window (Tino Island, IOTA EU-083).  :)

(https://www.qrpclub.org/images/tino.jpg)
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: VE2TH on January 18, 2014, 01:26:46 UTC

Wow!! what a nice place, I love it.

I forgot another link you will like very much:

http://www.waponline.it/ (http://www.waponline.it/)

It is the WORLD WIDE ANTARTICA PROGRAM, and this link is from your home (.IT) Gret.

Arrivederci Nicola,

Michel VE2TH QRP
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: IZ5ZCO on January 18, 2014, 01:42:45 UTC
I forgot another link you will like very much:
[url]http://www.waponline.it/[/url] ([url]http://www.waponline.it/[/url])
It is the WORLD WIDE ANTARTICA PROGRAM, and this link is from your home (.IT) Gret.


Wonderful! Many thanks Michel!
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: VE2TH on January 18, 2014, 01:45:57 UTC
Hello again,

Just checked my log and I worked this island last summer:

CALL: IP1T, August 17 2013 on 20M CW 20:41Z

I'm  waiting for the QSL card. It's great!! The operator has very good ears, he heard my call QRP 

Arrivederci,

Michel
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: IZ5ZCO on January 18, 2014, 01:54:03 UTC
Quote
Just checked my log and I worked this island last summer:

CALL: IP1T, August 17 2013 on 20M CW 20:41Z

Me too: July 27 2013 on 17M SSB 20:35Z... whispering.  ;D
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: GM0LVI on January 18, 2014, 09:59:26 UTC
The Diamond DX Club used to have a W.A.B.A. - Worked Antarctic Bases Award. I don't know if it is still running as the website has a lot of broken links, but it was a very nice plaque printed on polished aluminium.

http://web.tiscali.it/ddxc2/waba/ (http://web.tiscali.it/ddxc2/waba/)

Dave
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: VE2TH on January 18, 2014, 15:11:43 UTC
Hello Dave,

Since yesterday, I'm the new lighthouse keeper, it means I check for the crew, all pertinent, good, interesting, and useful links.

See below   ;D

 
Well, you can look at the following link which is OK and very informative:

http://www.french-polar-team.fr/index.php (http://www.french-polar-team.fr/index.php)    (in English)

It is full of informations, and you can browse all the QSL cards of previous operations.

Plus the ANTARTIC & ARTIC CHALLENGE still running, and see who qualified.

You will sure love this one.

Good reading Dave, and friends,

72 Michel VE2TH/QRP
Title: Antarctica to day...
Post by: sm5mek on January 18, 2014, 17:10:27 UTC
there is a station on the south pole active to day, heard him mostly on 30m. You can see him on the cluster, great pileup i guess, my 5W was not good enough for this time, just waiting for next opportunity.
PS if you are doing an tour on upper deck, don´t disturb the ships cat, not much of rats on board yet so give him a steak just for safety.  ;D  I give the &%#**~cat an herring so he have something to do.  :P  Now have to clean up.
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: GM0LVI on January 18, 2014, 21:57:03 UTC
Thanks for that link Michel, there's a lot of interesting info there. I was a bit surprised though that the link about ships didn't include any British ships.
My good friend Milke GM0HCQ (/MM) / VP8CMH/MM spends several months down there ever year in his job as comms manager on RRS James Clark Ross, supplying British bases and doing science. He left home today to fly to Punta Arenas to pick up the ship on Monday evening. He works 99% CW and usually self-spots on the DX Cluster when QRV.
He's got a good web page -

http://www.gm0hcq.com/ (http://www.gm0hcq.com/)

We visted the ship when it called in at Dundee after an Arctic science deployment this summer. It was fascinating seeing all the equipment.
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f246/davenlucy/JCR%20Dundee/JCRsummer_zps905f1a2d.jpg) (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/davenlucy/media/JCR%20Dundee/JCRsummer_zps905f1a2d.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: VE2TH on January 19, 2014, 01:48:02 UTC
Hello Dave,

Well on the first link,  http://www.waponline.it/AntarcticLinks/tabid/75/Default.aspx (http://www.waponline.it/AntarcticLinks/tabid/75/Default.aspx)

I found the one you are talking about:

GMØHCQ Antarctica Home Page: http://www.gm0hcq.com (http://www.gm0hcq.com)

But Yes I looked and nothing about any British Ships,
But I will look at some other places, between my quarter at the lighthouse :--)))

72 Michel


Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: VE2TH on January 26, 2014, 21:43:11 UTC
Hello,

To GM0LVI, I found this:

http://clarkema.org/vp8dmh/ (http://clarkema.org/vp8dmh/)

Rothera Station: November 2009—March 2011, and

Halley Station: December 2011—February 2012

72, Michel/back to my duty at the lighthouse...
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: GM0LVI on January 26, 2014, 22:31:01 UTC
Thanks Michel!
VP8DMH's website is really interesting and his linked page detailing the bases is pretty good though there's quite a few missing on it. I note that he operated from Fossil Bluff on Alexander Island - that's a very rare one not only for Antarctic bases but also for IOTA chasers as it's IOTA AN-018 and seldom activated. I think the previous activation was back in 1994 when VP8GAV made just short of 1000 Qs in 6 days.

Dave.
Title: Re: Your QSOs with Antarctica
Post by: ve3lyx on January 31, 2014, 12:09:48 UTC
worked a JA who was a weather researcher in Antartica back in the 80s . It was on CW and really bad month of conditions .I had designed and built a Cw reconstructor that filtered the noise through a hi/low pass audio filter(pair of 741 op amps with a preamp. and also clipped it before it passed through. I fed the output to an optoisolator and used it to trigger a piezo  buzzer. Very spooky copying Cw without background noise but it worked. He said I was his first human contact in 30 days and he darn near wore my arm out on the QSO. About a year later he sent me a card from his home in Japan. I recorded the whole QSO but no longer have a recorder that will take that odd style of tape. Without the reconstructor the QSO would have been impossible as with the ear one could only tell there was a signal, not read it.
Don