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| Germany's Neumayer III Antarctic Research Station (via Wikimedia Commons) |
It is well-known that radio propagation around the north and south poles is quite different from other parts of the world, and now a joint project of Germany's Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC), the Technical University of Munich and the University of Bremen will attempt to document those differences using WSPR - or Weak Signal Propagation Reporter - technology.
The ARRL Letter reports that ham researchers in Antarctica have installed a multiband WSPR transmitter as well as a multiband receiver at the Neumayer III Research Station. The receiver can simultaneously monitor up to eight bands between 160 and 6 meters and feed several hundred reports each hour to the WSPRnet website.
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| QSL card from a previous amateur operation at the Neumayer station (via DX News). DH5CW plans to operate from there for a year, beginning in February 2018. |