[Milsurplus] Khodovarikha Meteorological Station

[Mike Feher]

I do have one of those Volna receivers with numerous NOS spare tubes for it.
73- Mike 

 

Mike B. Feher, N4FS

89 Arnold Blvd.

Howell NJ 07731

848-245-9115

 

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<milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Hubert Miller
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2021 4:58 PM
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Milsurplus] Khodovarikha Meteorological Station

 

National Geographic, 12 - 2020, "Arctic Dreaming", pages 108 - 127. 

"Wind blown snow swirls past abandoned buildings keeping cold vigil over the
empty streets of Dikson.

Once the centerpiece of Soviet dreams to develop the Arctic, the port town
was slowly deserted after 

the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991." Town had population 5000 in 1980s
prime; now abandoned

and interior of buildings looking like Chernobyl. Open books, children's
toys, a derelict piano...  Dikson 

is almost directly below island of Novaya Zemlaya in Kara Sea. Article says
Germans attempted to seize

it in WWII - maybe to interdict convoy traffic ? 

 

Also, this photo: weather reporting radio station at Khodovarikha
Meteorological Station, a one - person

station still taking measurements. "Outside the station I could hear ice
shifting and grinding, and the wind

making the radio wires whistle. Inside it was quiet, with only Korotki's
footsteps and a creaking door 

marking the passage of time. Every three hours he'd leave, then return,
muttering observations to himself...

which he would then report over a crackling old radio to a person he had
never seen", in Archangelsk,

500 miles away. This station is on the Barents Sea, approximately across
from the bottom of Novaya 

Zemlaya island. I recognize the receiver as a "Volna" HF receiver, Russian
navy. At one time, many years

back, seeing one in QST, I thought I wanted one. But they are big and very
heavy, and not I'm not 

interested in owning one now. 

 

I think I would say "No thanks!" to any job offer there.

-Hue Miller 

 

 

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