47th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting & 27th Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection will be held in Milan, Italy from June 23rd through July 3th 2025
For this coming event a special callsign II2ATCM (WAP-355) will be on air in this time (June 23-July 3) operating from the famous Museo della Scienza Leonardo da Vinci in Milan.
Main promoter of the event is Prof. PhD Julius Fabbri (pic aside) IV3CCT (aka II3BOVE) who wrote:
«Adri-Antartica and ARI-MI are going to transmit a message for peace and international scientific cooperation from the Museo della Scienza Leonardo da Vinci in Milan. The Ham Radio event will be held in harmony with the spirit of the Antarctic Treaty, on the 50th Anniversary of the Giacomo Bove Base (WAP ITA-Ø2), in conjunction with the 47th Meeting of the Antarctic Treaty in Milan. During this institutional event, which is independent and separate from the radio operation, Adri-Antartica meets the Polish Delegation to define the conclusion of the candidacy process as a Historical site of the remains of Giacomo Bove Base (WAP ITA-Ø2) dismantled and removed by the Argentines in 1976.
Next year, the descendants of Cav. Renato Cèpparo (I2VZP) who did operate from Antarctica with the callsign I1SR/MM and I1SR/P are going to set a private Expedition to the site in Antarctica where Cepparo and his team built the first Italian Base. Main objective of this operation is to make a documentary, scientific research on the stone glacier present in Italia Valley and put a metal plaque already approved by the Argentines, prelude to the official Historical Site.
The message of peace also includes the celebration of the project to create a small Church in Antarctica in the Italian Mario Zucchelli Base (WAP ITA-Ø1), a twentieth-year initiative of the Worldwide Antarctic Program, the only portal that collects the radio data of all the radio amateurs in the world operating in the Ice Continent. Thank the Museum for its kind hospitality and WAP for its kind patronage»
TNX IV3CCT Prof. Ph.D Julius Fabbri.