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Tracking a German Polar Research Ship on 28 MHz in the S Atlantic - Dec
2021 & Jan 2022

Posted: 26 Jan 2022 01:19 AM PST https://ei7gl.blogspot.com/2022/01/tracking-german-polar-research-ship-on.html



For the last few weeks, I have left my HF radio on the 10m WSPR frequency
of 28.1246 MHz and any signals I decode are uploaded automatically to the WSPRnet website.
One of the more unusual signals that I have heard over the last few weeks
was DP0POL, the WSPR station on the German polar research vessel Polarstern.
I first noticed this when it was off the west coast of Africa. Between the
22nd of December 2021 and the 3rd of January 2022, I heard the 5-watt
signal a total of 39 times. The distances range from 5116 kms to 9705 kms.

I remember checking this a few weeks back and there were no earlier
reception before it was off the west coast of Africa. Possibly, it was
inside the F2 layer skip zone for me when it was further north.
Back in May of 2021, I was able to track the same ship on 28 MHz as it made
its way through the North Sea.

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