VP8ROT -Rothera

VP8ROT - ROTHERA BASE

VP8ROT is the base callsign for Rothera Base, located on Adelaide Island, Antarctica.

The call is being used by the over-wintering Comms Manager, Ian Nightingale.

Mike Gloistein, GM0HCQ, is the QSL Manager for this call, and uses the call when visiting the base.

Logbook of the World and E-QSL updated to 19th March 2008

QSL cards are accepted via the bureau or direct and full information is available on the QSL page.

If you have a QSL/QSO query, please mail me at gm0hcq (@) gm0hcq.com

Details

Position: Latitude 67°34' S, Longitude 68°08' W, Rothera Point, Adelaide Island, Antarctica, IOTA AN-001

Radio: Skanti TRP 8757, 100 Watts into a N/S dipole antenna.

Chief activities: Biology, geoscience, glaciology, atmospheric sciences. Main air facility for fieldwork, depot laying and links to South America and the Falkland Islands. Occupied: 25 October 1975 to present.

Rothera Station is the BAS logistics centre for the Antarctic Peninsula and home to well-equipped biological laboratories and facilities for a wide range of research. The station is situated on a rock and raised beach promontory at the southern extremity of Wormald Ice Piedmont, south-eastern Adelaide Island. The station has a 900 m crushed rock runway, with an associated hangar and bulk fuel storage facility, and a wharf for the discharge of cargo from supply ships. There is a transitory summer population of scientists and support staff who reach Rothera either by ship or through use of an intercontinental Dash-7 aircraft flying from the Falkland Islands.

VP8ADE: The base has a 10m beacon which operates on 28.285MHz. Please note that the base does not accept any qsl cards for the beacon. Click on the link for some more info and pictures.