Third mission in Antarctica, for Lt. Danilo Collino, expert mountain Scout of the Italian Army. After being active from Concordia Station (WAP MNB-Ø3) and from Dome C Summer Camp (WAP MNB-14) see pic side, Danilo is now at Mario Zucchelli Station (WAP ITA-Ø1) till mid February.
He is often at 14140 at his early moning (16,00 UTC) looking for Europe as well as earlier when conditions are good, for Asia and Pacific he takes care of the many VKs, ZLs and JAs.
In the following days he will check 14243 for North America and he promised to exploit all of his free time to give a chance to everybody, to work Antarctica.
At Mario Zucchelli Station (WAP-Ø1) he is operating from the Radio Room of the Base when it is free of use by the Air traffic control personnel. (see picture on the right)
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A big thanks to Steve VK3KTT for recording the contact between David VKØ/FT4YM/p at Casey Base (WAP AUS-Ø1) and Danilo IAØ/IZ1KHY at Mario Zucchelli Station (WAP ITA-Ø1)
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Also, at Concordia Station Danilo did operate briefly from the Radio Room of the Control Tower, while at Dome C Summer camp (WAP MNB-14) he did operate from a tent, using the same equipment of David FT4YM who was for two months together with Danilo.
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A big thanks to the Chief commanders of the vaious sites , for having allowed to operate on the Ham Radio frequencies and of course to Danilo and David for having given many many Radioamateurs WW the thrill of a radio contact with Antarctica.
QSL for IAØ/IZ1KHY goes via I1URL
QSL for FT4YM/p goes via F5PFP
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TNX Danilo IAØ/IZ1KHY & David FT4YM/p