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Amateur Radio Expedition (a DX-pedition) to “Lost” Arctic Islands

In April 2001, a team of amateur radio operators and support team members embarked on a journey to the “Lost Islands of Central Arctic”, an area above Russia, just shy of the permanently-frozen arctic circle. These Islands were at one time never marked on any map, as they were strategic military ‘assets’ of the USSR. Now, they are documented and in this Diary, you get to journey with the expeditionary team. Narration is in English, by Igor Belozerov.

The first Island in this journey was Ushakov Island.

Ushakov Island Location Map

They went from Island to Island, spending time at each, to ‘activate’ the island on the amateur radio bands. This is a fantastic documentary of this expedition (known as a DX-pedition by the amateur radio community), as shared with the radio community Alex, RX3AEX

Islands included in the near hour long movie:

+ RI0B (AS-156) USHAKOVA Island (IOTA New one)
+ RU0B (AS-057) UYEDINENIYA Island
+ RS0B/P(AS-057) ISACHENKO Island
+ RS0B/P(AS-068) MONA Island
+ R3CA/0

Radio team members:

+ RA0BM - Victor
+ UA9OBA - Yuri
+ R3CA - Vladimir
+ RW3GW - Valery
+ RZ9OO - Alexender
+ RV0AR - Pavel
+ UA0BA - Andrey
+ RX9ULT/9 - Andrey

There were also other supporting team members, like Evgeniy and Boris, plus the helicopter crew, including Igor, Leonid, the Mi8 Helicopter crew with Sergey.

More Detail:

Visit this page from the Russian Robinson Club.

(Source: youtube.com)

Posted 5 months ago

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Radio Slovakia International Competition

Our friend at the Radio Listening blog posted the following:

Historic Hotels of Slovakia

Radio Slovakia International hereby starts a new competition where you can win interesting prizes including a one week stay for two in Slovakia.

In the Historic Hotels of Slovakia cycle we will introduce to you 10 hotels transformed into luxurious first class accommodation. Every first weekend of the month we will explore the nooks and crannies of Slovak castles, châteaux and other historical buildings which all have an interesting story to tell. After each round we ask you a question and the winner drawn from the correct answers receives a prize. At the end of the cycle, two lucky participants will win the main prize.

Before you decide to take part in our competition, we have to notify you about two important rules. The first rule states that the winner of the main prize pays the expenses of travelling to Slovakia and the other one is that only listeners without permanent residence in Slovakia may take part in the competition.

Our second stop is Necas’s Villa in the Northern Slovakia. Please listen carefully to the audio report at the bottom of this page on Radio Slovakia’s International Radio website.

The question for this round is: What was the original purpose of Necas’s Villa?

Please send your answers by December 1st, 2011.

Respond by regular post at:

Radio Slovakia International
English Section
Mýtna 1, POBOX 55
817 55 Bratislava,
Slovakia

or email us to englishsection@slovakradio.sk

(Source : Radio Slovakia International)

Posted 6 months ago

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Travel to the center of the Earth? Not quite, but…

For centuries we have dreamed of reaching the center of the Earth. Now scientists are uncovering a bizarre and alien world that lies 4,000 miles beneath our feet, unlike anything we know on the surface.

It is a planet buried within the planet we know, where storms rage within a sea of white-hot metal and a giant forest of crystals make up a metal core the size of the Moon.

Horizon follows scientists who are conducting experiments to recreate this core within their own laboratories, with surprising results.

(Source: youtube.com)

Posted 7 months ago

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Voyage into History

The Terra Nova, the ship that carried Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the frozen continent that would be his grave, in a photograph dated December 13, 1910.

Here, the ship is seen held up by the ice pack.