Here is a station to watch for on Field Day. Info from ARRL
Antarctica's KC4AAA to be on the air for Field Day (Jun 16, 2006) --
KC4AAA at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica, has announced
plans to participate in ARRL Field Day 2006. The station's Satellite
Communications Technician Robert Reynolds, N0QFQ, will head up the
effort. Operations from KC4AAA will commence at 1800 UTC on June 24 and
continue through 2100 UTC on June 25. Experience has shown that best
opportunity for North and South American stations to contact KC4AAA
appears around 2300 UTC on the Eastern Seaboard, moving westward with
time until the window closes around 0400 UTC. Given South Pole's
location right under the auroral oval, propagation can make South Pole
intercontinental HF radio communications a challenge, so listen
carefully! The primary operating frequency will be on or about 14.243
MHz. KC4AAA operators will monitor and exploit other bands, but 20 meter
SSB will be the primary operating mode. South Pole will operate as a
"home" station with supplied power (Class 1D). Reynolds plans to have a
team of up to 10 operators staffing the station, most of whom are in a
ham radio licensing class at the station. KC4AAA will be running 1 kW
and will mainly use a pair of log-periodic antennas aimed toward the US.
KC4AAA plans to upload its Field Day log to Logbook of The World (LoTW).
QSL cards will be sent later in the year.
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