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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.

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)