{"id":4438589,"date":"2021-01-17T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/?p=4438589"},"modified":"2021-01-17T14:42:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:42:49","slug":"dp0pol-mm-arrives-non-stopp-in-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/dp0pol-mm-arrives-non-stopp-in-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"DP0POL\/mm arrives Non-Stopp in Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"jsc_c_3k\" class=\"ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a\" data-ad-comet-preview=\"message\" data-ad-preview=\"message\">\n<div class=\"j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg\">\n<div class=\"qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d\">\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">2021-01-17: we will be reaching the edge of the ice shelf some time tonight. The QO-100 station is safely packed back into its boxes. It is again quite stormy, so we might not be able to start unloading the ship until Tuesday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d\">\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">After another great day on the air, the QO-100 activity of DP0POL\/mm has come to an end. Altogether, we made 2759 QSOs with 760 different stations in 50 DXCC entities. During this trip, 28 different Maidenhead squares have been activated by DP0POL\/mm.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Felix DL5XL and Theresa DC1TH live via the QO-100 satellite, creating a huge pile-up on the NB transponder:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VegWq-2Ra1g\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The following QO-100 grid squares map is from PA3FYM (on twitter). Remco is one of the most active users on the geostationary amateur radio satellite and the route of DP0POL\/mm can be seen quite easily:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/grid-squares-qo100-pa3fym-2021-01-marked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4438588\" src=\"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/grid-squares-qo100-pa3fym-2021-01-marked.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1892\" height=\"2365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/grid-squares-qo100-pa3fym-2021-01-marked.jpg 1892w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/grid-squares-qo100-pa3fym-2021-01-marked-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/grid-squares-qo100-pa3fym-2021-01-marked-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/grid-squares-qo100-pa3fym-2021-01-marked-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/grid-squares-qo100-pa3fym-2021-01-marked-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/grid-squares-qo100-pa3fym-2021-01-marked-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/grid-squares-qo100-pa3fym-2021-01-marked-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/grid-squares-qo100-pa3fym-2021-01-marked-960x1200.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1892px) 100vw, 1892px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d\">\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">All of this was done without any kind of automatic satellite tracking, the antenna was adjusted manually all the time. All contacts have been uploaded to LotW. If a confirmation is missing, please feel free to contact DL5XL. QSL cards will be printed shortly, our QSL manager is DL5EBE (bureau or direct, no OQRS).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg\">\n<div class=\"qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d\">\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">During the upcoming Antarctic summer season, we will be on QO-100 signing DP0GVN (DXCC is CE9, Grid Locator IB59UI).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Thanks to everyone who made this operation possible, particularly AMSAT-DL, DK3ZL and the crew on board of RV Polarstern!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">73 from all of us at DP0POL\/mm (DC1TH, DJ0HO, and DL5XL).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021-01-17: we will be reaching the edge of the ice shelf some time tonight. The QO-100 station is safely packed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4438586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,242,1],"tags":[257,271,272,244],"class_list":["post-4438589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dp0gvn-en","category-qo-100-p4-a","category-uncategorized","tag-dp0gvn-en","tag-dp0pol","tag-polarstern","tag-qo-100-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4438589"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4438597,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438589\/revisions\/4438597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4438586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4438589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4438589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amsat-dl.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4438589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}