Hello from South Georgia
Before 3Y0E brings to its end, Petrus managed to meet his friend on the air transmitting from another unique location. He managed to speak to Lars Boehme, VP8DIF (aka DL9LB and MM0DWF) who is based in a former Norwegian whaling station – Husvik [pron. as ‘hoosveek’] on South Georgia Island.
Lars VP8DIF on South Georgia isl.
Since Lars and Petrus know each other in person due to their scientific professions, it was really remarkable they could catch each other from those 2 remote and unique locations. Signals were pretty good between those 2 sub-antarctic islands reaching 5/5. The 3Y0E team finds these contacts really unique, merging the amateur radio hobby and somewhat that could be described as remoteness vs. friendship…
Alike “our” Bouvet team, Lars does also research on Elephant Seal species down there in South Georgia, developing an unique technique of wireless, satellite monitoring of animals. All data collected will help to understand i.e. environmental impact of climate changes on Antarctic fauna.
Lars plans to activate South Georgia in spare time – all information can be found on his website:
http://www.lars-boehme.de/vp8dif/index.html
Some more information about South Georgia Island:
http://www.sgisland.org/pages/sghome.htm
Stan SQ8X
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