[Milsurplus] Khodovarikha Meteorological Station

[Tom B]

The other radio is a Polosa-2.  See here for more details.

https://civil.trcvr.ru/2018/01/14/radiostancija-polosa-2/

Tom Bryan
N3AJA


On 10/24/2021 4:57 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
>
> 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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