Over the weekend, the NZ Team gathered for the time-honoured flag ceremony, marking the official handover from the winter team to the summer crew. The winter flag was lowered and the summer one raised; a symbolic moment that celebrates the shift in season and team.
New Zealand is redeveloping its Scott Base in Antarctica (WAP NZL-Ø1), replacing its 12 buildings with three interconnected, sustainable structures designed to support scientific research for the next 50 years. The project is the largest ever undertaken by Antarctica New Zealand, with a budget of NZ$498 million, and will involve upgrading the wind farm and creating new laboratories, living quarters, and engineering workshops. Construction on the new base is expected to begin following the final design stages.
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Thanks and credit to: Antarctica New Zealand https://www.antarcticanz.govt.nz/
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Once in the past (25-30 years ago), Scott Base was quite active on HF, giving the Hams and Antarctic Chasers a chance to have ZL5 on their Logs.
Since 2002, we have’t got reports of any activity from there!
The reason, could be found in new communication’s tools made HF radio out of fashion. For us, Old Timers is not so.
HF contacts from any part of the world to Antarctica is always wanted, a strong emotion for the large WW Ham Radio community. Our is an appeal, a pray to restore the good habit of being “On Air” from the one of most wantedi sites in Antarctica which is Scott Base (WAP NZL-Ø1).