DP0GVN Neumayer III Station Antarctica. From DXNews.com

Alex, DL2ALY will be active from Neumayer III Station, IOTA AN – 016, Antarctica, until end of the 2025.
He will operat on HF Bands with focus on 80 and 160m Bands.
Recent DX Spots DP0GVN

Previous activities:
Roman, HB9HCF will be active from Neumayer III Station, IOTA AN – 016, Antarctica, for the 2020 season.
He will operate over QO – 100 satellite and possibly HF.

Matthias, DH5CW will be active from Neumayer III Station, IOTA AN – 016, Antarctica, February 2018 – February 2019, as DP0GVN.
He will operate on HF Bands.
QSL via DL5EBE.
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Dominik Weiel, DL5EBE, Kirchweg 13, 49356 Diepholz, Germany.
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Neumayer III Station – a German natural laboratory on a mysterious continent

Antarctica has always attracted scientists with its mystery, and today there are scientific stations on its territory of almost all progressive countries of the world. Neumayer III is a German research center dedicated to the study of geophysics, seismological activity, meteorology, and the chemical composition of the air.

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The name of the station is not accidental!

The station was named after the outstanding polar explorer Georg von Neumayer, who was one of the first to try to organize a German expedition to Antarctica. The center is not just called the third, as the first one was built back in 1980, but lasted only one season. It was erected right on the ice shelf with a thickness of about 200 meters, or rather closer to its oceanic part. The second station functioned from 1993 to 2008, and it was replaced by the third ultramodern base of a new generation.

Technical equipment at the highest level

The station is located 2150 km from the South Pole and is equipped with the latest engineering. There are 15 living sections, 12 laboratories and agricultural buildings. The complex is located at a height of 6 meters and is supported by 16 hydraulic supports. Taking into account that the ice annually slides 150 meters into the ocean, a unique engineering structure was created to raise the entire structure to a given height. The area of the station is almost 4.5 thousand square meters, and the weight of the entire structure is about 2.5 thousand tons.

All conditions for comfortable work of scientists have been created at Neumayer. There are generators supplying heat and light, an emergency wind generator, a unique water supply system that converts snow into water. By the way, Antarctica has the most ecologically clean water on the planet. In addition to living quarters there is a conference hall, a medical office, an operating room, a sauna, a gym, a laundry. The structure even has a ground floor, where a real full-fledged garage is located. In fact, it is a pit dug right into the ice. The Germans spent 39 million euros on the construction of this engineering giant and expect to use it for at least 25 years.

Harsh everyday life of polar explorers

In general, Germany made sure that the scientists at the station were as comfortable as possible. They spend most of their time within the walls of the base and do not go outside it. Only 9 people stay for wintering, and so on Neumayer there is a staff of 50 people. These are exclusively scientists and medical personnel. Supply of the station with everything necessary (medicine, food, etc.) is carried out by air.

The base is located on the territory of the Queen Maud Land and neighbors with the Norwegian station Troll. There is an airfield within its boundaries, and that is where helicopters fly in to deliver provisions for the German scientists. Neumayer III has another neighbor – the Russian station Novolazarevskaya. It is also equipped with an airstrip. These lands were named by the Norwegians in honor of their queen. The girl was the daughter of the British King Edward VII and the Danish Queen Alexandra. She married Håkon VII and became extremely popular among the Scandinavian peoples.

Climate control inside and out

Taking into account the climatic peculiarity of the area where the station is located, the Germans were attentive to the temperature regime. Outside in summer the temperature ranges from 0 to -5 degrees Celsius, and in winter the average temperature is -25-30 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature recorded near Neumayer III was -45 degrees Celsius. Considering that the base is located on the coast, the climate is not as harsh here as inland, where thermometers often show temperatures of -60 to -75 Celsius.

It snows for about 150 days every year, but rain is quite rare here. There can be only two rainy days per year. In summer the sun shines brightly all day long. The temperature in the walls of the station is always kept at 20 degrees and the humidity level is controlled, so the residents of Neumayer III are not inconvenienced by the cold.

Mysticism is real

In recent years, within the research area of German scientists appear quite strange anomalies. January 31, 2012 cameras recorded here an unidentified object, the nature of which the researchers could not explain. From the outside it seems that this is a real UFO. On May 3 of the following year, high-precision equipment again found the so-called “second sun”. The object seems to follow on the heels of the familiar to us luminary. Strangely, the video from the cameras very quickly removed from the World Wide Web, so as not to raise a fuss, but many managed to watch it and even copy it.

Neumayer III is a unique facility that works for the benefit of science and progress. Only specialists of extra-class, able to go to the ends of the earth and not be distracted by all sorts of trifles, get here. The German scientific community, in turn, has made every effort to ensure that all employees are provided with everything they need.

DP0GVN. Where is Neumayer III Station located. Map.