Just off the Antarctic coast is South Shetland and I worked LU1ZI tonight at BASE ANTARTICA CARLINI. Good signal.
The band noise was -118 dBm and LU8ZI was -106 dBm making him easy pickings. Fortunately he could also hear me. My due south trans-equatorial luck is not always great from my QTH but I usually do OK into Antartica.
Here is a shot of the base
Beautiful in its stark isolation. Were I in a place like that I would thank God for a ham radio station.
73 W9OY
