hamming it up
 Our five amateur radio operators: Dave, Fritz, Jerry, Lloyd and Alex, here in the main part of comms. The ham shack got a lot of activity all year, not only for phone patches but also for making contacts with other amateurs all over the world in English and Russian! 
Jim Fletcher in the ham shack doing a phone patch. In 1977 the Palmer and Siple winterovers already had the capability to make telephone calls via the ATS-3 satellite, but for us, ham radio was the only way to talk to family and friends back home. 
Dave Thelander gets on the horn... 
And here's Jerry Gastil hamming things up a bit. 
Lloyd Anderson is at work on something. This is in the ET shop in the science building...later known as the "back of science." These 2 photos are from Tadashi Yogi. 
Back in comms, here's my turn for a patch. Or perhaps I'm talking to Siple Station, where 5 men were wintering over in the deeply buried old station. By this time of the year they'd run out of cigarettes! We would use these radios for communication with folks at many of the other Antarctic stations. More Antarctic QSL cards! |
