[K6NCG] Antarctica phone patches?

[John Summers]

>From 1970-1973 I was a ET1 stationed in Christchurch, NZ and ran the
transmitter facility for Operation Deep Freeze.  We provided comms for the
various Ice stations, as well as flight following communications for the
planes going to and from the Ice.

Unfortunately, all of my team was eventually able to make a trip to the ice
but I never could swing it.  I wanted to get on one of the Antarctic
stations and have a QSO with my dad who was also a ham back in Colorado.

Great memories


John Summers - W0DY
johnsummersmail at gmail.com
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On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 5:57 PM Desmond Crisis <dcrisis at desmondcrisis.com>
wrote:

> That's totally awesome.  What a great story.  My friend here it work says
> that the internet connection there isn't much better now ....than it was in
> the 60s.  :)
>
> DC
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 3:53 PM Jim <k7jaj at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Desmond,
> > Here is another memory I hadn’t recalled for a very long time. In the
> > early seventies I was priveleged to participate in a phone patch wedding
> > for a crewmember of one of the icebreakers that was stuck in the ice up
> > north, who had planned a wedding ceremony for a long time, but couldn’t
> get
> > out to attend. They arranged with a minister in Washington state to
> perform
> > the ceremony via a phone patch that included the skipper. (I have an
> audio
> > recording of that somewhere.) It was the thrill of a lifetime for me, and
> > sufficient justification for patches for people in such isolated areas.
> > 73,
> > Jim, K7JAJ
> >
> > From: Paul Rasp
> > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 12:32 PM
> > To: Discussion of K6NCG
> > Subject: Re: [K6NCG] Antarctica phone patches?
> >
> > When I was stationed at TI in 1972-1973, there was a member of the club
> > that had spent several tours on the ice. His name was Bob. Can’t recall
> his
> > callsign.
> >
> > 73
> > Paul
> > W4ARK
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Jun 28, 2019, at 2:09 PM, Jim <k7jaj at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Desmond,
> > >
> > > I was on the USS Burton Island (a USN icebreaker) from 1960-62 and
> > operated KC4USS for Deep Freeze '62. Of course that was before satellite
> > phones and Internet, but the ham radio was our lifeline, even used for
> USN
> > communications on a couple occasions when Navy shore stations couldn’t be
> > reached due to propagation.
> > >
> > > Sad to say, things haven’t changed all that much. Last year the NSF hub
> > in New Zealand was out of service for several months, and they again
> > resorted to ham radio for essential communications. ARRL even gave exams
> by
> > video conferencing to several people who wintered over.
> > >
> > > 73,
> > >
> > > Jim, K7JAJ
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: k6ncg-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:
> > k6ncg-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Desmond Crisis
> > > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 11:17 AM
> > > To: Discussion of K6NCG
> > > Subject: [K6NCG] Antarctica phone patches?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Group,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > A couple of people in the office here have worked in Antarctica.  One
> is
> > >
> > > going back shortly. I’m trying to show her the value of ham radio.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I remember hearing stories of K6NCG working phone patches for KC4US_
> > >
> > > stations back in the day on 14292.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anyone here have any recollections of working Antarctica?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Incidentally, I try to use 14292 as a CQ channel whenever I use the
> club
> > >
> > > call. Seems traditional.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Desmond
> > >
> > > KC6VHG
> > >
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