My card says Ukrainian Antarctic Station, operator Roman, UX1KA. He was on Galindez Island. It is strange to me that they got a VP8 call. 73 N7RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "George" <w8...@voyager.net> To: "Jeff" <w...@arrl.net>; <Topband@contesting.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 7:36 PM Subject: Re: Topband: RI1ANF > > > Antarctic Continent is a bit difficult these days. I have a few contacts > in > the 80s - 90's, but pretty skimpy from year 2K. > > I did work VP8CTR in Feb 1998 but didn't note the QTH. I never sent for > the > card. Any ideas on the QTH? > > 73 George W8UVZ > > I'm pretty sure DP1POL was active on TB in 2010. I worked him on 80, 40 > and > 30m and seem to remember he had 100w on TB? > Jeff W7JW > > -----Original Message----- > From: Herb Schoenbohm > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:55 PM > To: g...@ka1j.com > Cc: Topband@contesting.com > Subject: Re: Topband: RI1ANF > > You have me excited for a moment as I need Antarctica on 160. I have > already worked South Orkney, South Shetland, Falklands, Bouvet and Peter > I on TB but for some reason Antarctica has just not been there for me > even though there are always active hams there. Maybe I worked some > other operation there years ago but never entered the call as a new > one....but there must be some operation on TB from Antarctica....like I > mean just tie some insulated wire on a snow cat and lay it on the snow. > Drive north for a half a mile.....and put in a 600 ohm non inductive > resistor and drive another 135 feet for a Beverage self termination > without a ground connection and you should be able to hear everything > that comes on the band from NA during the long periods of darkness when > they go into real winter. > > Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ > > > > > 5/31/2012 12:18 PM, Gary Smith wrote: >> Thanks to some off list replies My logging program (which means me as >> well) is apparently incorrect and this is a south shetland Q. Though >> I liked the idea of it being Antarctica as my father as a young ham >> made contact with Byrds expedition. However, I also need South >> Shetlands on TB so I'm still most happy. >> >> Thank you for the correction! >> >> Gary >> KA1J >> >> >> >> >>> What a surprise to hear Antarctica last night. Apparently the band >>> has some nice unexpected gems to be found on it here in Connecticut. >>> >>> Gary >>> KA1J >>> _______________________________________________ >>> UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK