Danilo has moved the mast and antenna away from the two big generators that serve LDC Camp, but he had to stop; temp is -46°C he’s afraid that coax cable or dipole wires could break. In any case, changing the position and built a new dipole for 20 mts, appears to work OK now; SWR 1,2 at 14250 and 100 W output, even if the background noise still over S5 to S7. RTX has only 100 W but seems to be enough. Danilo was 44 here again when we tested conditions. He sent an audio recording and 1HYW was 55 with him, fully comprehensible (Audio recording below).
Nothing today, there was noise and even if he did copy me and others trying to test, there was no chance! Local time at Little Dome C-Epica camp is 7 hours ahead … at 18:00 Z, is 2 o’clok in the morning down there!
We should try again in the next few days testing up and down maybe also the Long Path in early morning GMT, to see what time is better. Same fading has been experienced as well by Oleg ZS7ANF on dec. 18th on his second try from Echo Camp; band was completely faded.
Danilo is now at Concordia Station for some work on the Delta Loop antenna down there.
More info to follow, stay tuned