Антарктида

[rn3aus]

В рассылке неутомимый Стефан DK7FC рассказал о своих планах по организации приемной ДВ-позиции на немецкой Антарктической станции.

> LF!
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> 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/
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> The research base is the Neumayer3 Station, http://www.awi.de/en/infrastructure/stations/neumayer_station/
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> 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!
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> What do the experts say, will this be realistic? (also regarding the south-auroral-oval)
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> 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 :-)
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> 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? :-)
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> 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?
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> So far they are quite fixed to HF but i'll see what i can do. :-)
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> That may be also a good message for the few LF stations in Argentinia which is in "only" 5000 km from there...
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> 73, Stefan/DK7FC
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Как-то проскакивала информация, что у кого-то из нас есть знакомый радиолюбитель, имеющий отношение к Антарктике. Может быть, и нам подумать о LF-позиции в Антарктиде?
Насколько я знаю, на наших станциях не особенно доступен Интернет, по крайней мере для неслужебных целей, поэтому будет затруднительно организовать традиционный граббер со скриншотами. Может быть, ОПЕРА пригодится - объем передаваемых в интернет данных минимален...
Аппаратуру-то можно изготовить в обозримые сроки, но есть ли выход на конкретных людей?

[rw3adb]

Забудь об этом сразу. Если они народ туда на работу набирают из числа энтузиастов-радиолюбителей и платят им копейки жалкие, то о чём еще можно говорить?
Это надо выходить на американцев или японцев. Последние, кстати, проводили весьма забавный VLF эксперимент в антарктиде.
А нашим- давно уже ничего не нужно и нет возможностей.
О каком интернете речь?-) Не смеши.
Это американцы капитально вложились и протянули туда оптический кабель... Нашим же- как всегда ничего не надо.
У нас давно выгоднее торговать булочками, чем заниматься еще чем то более сложным.