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  • [AMSAT-UK] Antarctica: DP0GVN QO-100 antenna destroyed, rebuild planned

    From AMSAT-UK via rec.radio.info Admin@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 18 21:21:08 2021
    XPost: uk.radio.amateur, free.uk.amateur-radio, rec.radio.info

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    Antarctica: DP0GVN QO-100 antenna destroyed, rebuild planned for 2022

    Posted: 18 Aug 2021 11:26 AM PDT https://amsat-uk.org/2021/08/18/antarctica-dp0gvn-antenna-destroyed/

    AWI Neumayer Station III Antarctica image from AMSAT-DL

    AMSAT-DL reports the antenna used by DP0GVN in Antarctica for the QO-100 geostationary satellite amateur radio transponder is completely destroyed.

    According to the Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI), a severe winter storm hit
    Atka Bay (Antarctica) at the end of last week. At Neumayer Station III,
    about 20 kilometres away, wind speeds of max. 94.9 knots (175.7 km/h) were recorded as a minute average during the night from 13 to 14 August. The strongest gust was 112 knots (207 km/h). This is by far the highest wind
    speed in recent years.

    Unfortunately, the satellite antenna for the geostationary QO-100 amateur
    radio satellite was also completely destroyed during the storm, despite the weatherproof radome, so no school contacts with DP0GVN can take place until further notice. AMSAT-DL and AWI hope to erect a new antenna early next
    year, in particular to continue the very successful contacts with schools.

    Source AMSAT-DL

    https://amsat-dl.org/en/dp0gvn-antenna-destroyed-rebuilding-planned-2022/

    https://twitter.com/amsatdl

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  • From Brian Morrison@21:1/5 to AMSAT-UK via rec.radio.info Admin on Thu Aug 19 13:37:50 2021
    XPost: uk.radio.amateur

    On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:21:08 EDT, AMSAT-UK via rec.radio.info Admin wrote:

    Unfortunately, the satellite antenna for the geostationary QO-100
    amateur radio satellite was also completely destroyed during the storm, despite the weatherproof radome

    Clearly not weatherproof enough.

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    Brian

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to Brian Morrison on Thu Aug 19 15:19:01 2021
    XPost: uk.radio.amateur

    On 19/08/2021 13:37, Brian Morrison wrote:
    On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:21:08 EDT, AMSAT-UK wrote:

    Unfortunately, the satellite antenna for the geostationary QO-100
    amateur radio satellite was also completely destroyed during the storm,
    despite the weatherproof radome

    Clearly not weatherproof enough.

    It was doubtless zapped because of climate change rather than weather,
    as the latest fashion in the Climate Con industry is to blame everything
    on that whether it's happened in geologic times or not (cf the recent
    heat dome over the western US and its predecessor a thousand years ago).


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