[Milsurplus] Khodovarikha Meteorological Station

[Brian Harrison]

Tom,

Great sleuthing

Here’s the website translation in English:

https://civil-trcvr-ru.translate.goog/2018/01/14/radiostancija-polosa-2/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=nui <https://civil-trcvr-ru.translate.goog/2018/01/14/radiostancija-polosa-2/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=nui>

PS that was one frosted over Volna K main tuning dial window - I was getting chilled just looking at the picture:-)

best,
brian
kn4r

> On Oct 25, 2021, at 4:11 PM, Tom B <tbryan at nova.org> wrote:
> 
> The other radio is a Polosa-2.  See here for more details.
> 
> https://civil.trcvr.ru/2018/01/14/radiostancija-polosa-2/ <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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