Well if don't count Antarctica then I refuse to acknowledge Europe :-))
I was active there on Tx and Rx. Experimental vlf and lf/mf/hf between
1978/83.....and even watched a noisy VHF BBC1 tv on a flown in black and white
tv....cripes 30 years or so ago.
Sent from
Laurence Howell KL7UK. KL1X/AM
On May 24, 2012, at 4:55 PM, "Stefan Schäfer"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> LF!
>
> After beeing visible in South America some have asked me what i'm planning
> next. 6 continents are "worked" now from here (one-way, TX) which is titled
> as a WAC by R7NT (ex. RU6LA). He updated his LF history page at
> http://136.73.ru/h_history/index.htm
> Now, which challenge next?
> The Antarctica does not count as a continent which can be worked it seems. No
> one is living there permanently... Anyway! There is a German research base
> which is permanently in operated by the Alfred-Wegner-Institut in
> Bremerhafen, http://www.awi.de/en/home/
>
> The research base is the Neumayer3 Station,
> http://www.awi.de/en/infrastructure/stations/neumayer_station/
>
> The locator seems to be IB59UI87 , http://no.nonsense.ee/qthmap/?qth=IB59UI87
> , just 13433 km distant from here :-) In this time of the year the common
> dark time from EU is 9 hours which sounds quite good. However the path passes
> a high QRN region in AF, see
> http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/6000/6679/global_lightning_lrg.jpg
> Probably 2 hops will be in Africa but the rest is across salt water!
>
> What do the experts say, will this be realistic? (also regarding the
> south-auroral-oval)
>
> At least i decided to start a request to the institute and asked for a
> contact to the radio operator of the base. From the uni-heidelberg adress
> this seems to be an easy task and so it took not even 2 days until i got an
> answer from the radio operator of the base. An antarctic email, this was the
> first exciting point for me! Of course the radio operator is a ham too,
> Lars/DL1LLL. They operate a amateur radio club station from there, DP0GVN.
> See some pictures from there at http://www.dl1lll.de/ Excellent location i
> find. And i assume it is most likely that there is no QRM from the neighbours
> :-)
>
> As expected, he is not only the radio operator but also the IT expert and
> electrician. They operate a webcam from there so probably the intenet is no
> problem! I was surprised. They seem to have a satelite flatrate :-)
> How long will it take until we have a LF grabber in the Antarktica? :-)
>
> As expected they have a well sorted electronic lab and Lars seem to have a
> good electronic knowledge so it will be no problem to build a preamp or a
> active antenna or whatever. They have 2 HF TRX which hopefully operate down
> to 137 kHz. It is a TS-480 and a FT-450. Does someone has some experience
> with this RX' on LF?
>
> So far they are quite fixed to HF but i'll see what i can do. :-)
>
> That may be also a good message for the few LF stations in Argentinia which
> is in "only" 5000 km from there...
>
> 73, Stefan/DK7FC
>
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