Thank You for looking up my call !

 

Always 100% QSL from me. I prefer to use OZ bureau. Direct OK for special events/call etc.

QSL only direct or via OZ Bureau !

 No  E QSL / LOTW /  QRZ.com logbook  etc...

No IRC's !

( International postage from here is USD 3 .)

Local Thule Time :

My jobtitle is ATCALS Technician ( Air Traffic Control And Landing Systems ) here at Thule Air Base, in NW Greenland. Doing maintenance & repair on Airport Radar, ILS, VOR / TACAN, Scientific and Weather equipment for use at the airfield and various institutes.

When weather, work etc. permits, I leave The Base and go to "South Mountain", from where I can use an old USAF HF Air Comm. antenna. It is a HF Discone ( broadcast antenna)3-30 MHz , 14 meters high, width 50 meters. (Omnidirectional, Vertical pol.)

My rig here is a : Yaesu FT 1000 MK V AMP : Ameritron AL 80B. (Normally tuned for 800 Watts PEP )

From my private room I operate from a Yaesu FT 897 D and a FritzelFD 4 Windom antenna with 100 Watts PEP

 

Current WX at Thule : http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/weather/current/BGTL.html

 

My location:

TX/RX Site : 76 30' 51.50 N 68 44' 37.00 W

Antenna : 76 30' 59.50 N 68 44' 27.25 W

My "Private room" : 76 32'10.17 N 68 44' 34.31 W

( Just copy / paste Lat. and Long. into Google Earthand and it takes You there. )

73..

OX3MC

Mike

 

Some pictures from my OX QTH :

The HF Discone Antenna at South Mountain in summer:

Ice on the cone Feb. 06 2010 at 11 am.:

 

At my South Mountain Station :

 

Front of my QSL card :

Polarbear tracks November 2011

The setup in my "Private room" :

 

The old USAF HF Air Comm building at Southmountain :

 

6. Feb. 2010 at 1100 am :

Thule Air Base in summer :

 

For orientation :

Me, at work :

 

More work a frosty morning :

 

Mother Bear passing Thule with two cubs summer 2011

Lunchtime....

 

 

A windy day at the old pier :

Newcommers comming up !

Great Circle centered on Thule :

 

Map of Greenland :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Kongstedt