Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung (DBZ) is a German philatelic trade journal that has been published since 1925 .On February issue of DBZ, Harald Kuhl, DL1AX has pubblished an interesting article about the summer italian Station WAP ITA-Ø1, MZS (named after Mario Zucchelli) in Antarctica, from which has recently operated Lt. Danilo Collino IAØ/IZ1KHY .
The article includes a copy of Danilo’s QSL and the stamp dedicated to the Italian scientist Mario Zucchelli (1944 – 2003), for years a reference figure for the Italian Antarctic Program.
Issued by TAAF (Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises) in 2019 the stamp did celebrate the important contribution of Mario Zucchelli to the realization of the French-Italian Concordia Station (WAP MNB-Ø3), depicted in the stamp along with the portrait of Zucchelli on a tricolor 
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In addition, DBZ magazine shows the special stamps issued to recall on the 100st Anniversary of the death of Ernest Shackleton who, at age of 47, made a final mission to Antarctica, but would sadly pass away on the island of South Georgia on January 4th, 1922.
January 4th, 2022 did mark 100 years since his passing.
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TNX Volker DL8JDX
Our good friend Paolo Corsetti IK3GER from Venice Italy, has set a free diploma which available to OM and SWL at the end of the Event. Just few very simple rules have to be followed as shown below:
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celebrate the National event and a special QSL-Award used to be issued to the Hams who made contact with this Bases. Above one of this QSL-Award issud on 22 febr. 1983 for a contact with LU1ZG at Base General Belgrano II (
Congrats to Phil Finkle K6EID from Marietta GA, USA for being one of the most present Ham into the 
The legend of El Dorado around the South Pole has fascinated many Europeans since Sir Francis Drake. On the first day of 1739, the looked at the cloudy, foggy and ice-bound coast – the one that would later be called Bouvet Island. Then he returned home with a description of majestic icebergs and black-and-white penguins that looked like «large ducks, but with fins instead of wings».
Sergiy Shutyayev UT9UX, is active (mostly 20 mts SSB) as EM1U from Ukrainian Antarctic Station Academic Vernadsky (
Almost at the end of their Antarctic seson, our friends Oleg ZS7ANF and Sebastian SQ1SGB meet at Wolf’s Fang Runway. (
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regarded as a well-established and reliable airbridge between Africa and Antarctica.
Sebastian VP8/SQ1SGB (
Several interesting features on February e-bulletin of Antarctic Heritage Trust : «our Antarctic season is underway at last. To be able to return a team to Port Lockroy has felt like a significant milestone for us. Despite the many challenges along the way, Lucy, Kit and Tank are finally there and getting stuck into the vital work, work which is proving all the more essential – two years away from the site means there is much maintenance to do….»
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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)
Dome C Summer camp (