Antarctic Activity Week

The Worldwide Antarctic Program's (WAP) 6th Antarctic Activity Week (AAW) will take place between 0000z, February 16th and 2400z, February 22nd. For details, see: http://www.waponline.it

This year's WAP AAW event is in collaboration with Italian Air Force, the National Antarctic Museum (MNA-Genova) and the Italian Ham Radio Association: ARI Mondovi, ARI-Genova and ARI Massa-Carrara.

The AAW is an unique world-wide event where Hams are "celebrating and working to improve Worldwide interest around the Antarctic Continent and its related matters, to understand and share what the Nations and Organizations are doing to study and protect this still non contaminated corner of the world and share from there, a message of peace."

Gianni, I1HYW, states (edited), "A number of operators (see list below) will be activating radio stations from at least 13 countries world-wide. The aim of AAW (also next March 1st, will see the end of the International Polar Year), is precisely that of gathering international scientific activities and the Ham's AAW, with particular reference to logistic and weather-related aspects, developed jointly with the major world-wide scientific organizations and international scientific community in a climate of mutual practical data sharing, with respect of the economic forces and logistic
elements vital to the continuation of scientific research in a corner of the world which harbors the very secret of our existence."

The AAW is celebrated every year during the last week of February, and it also coincides with Argentine's celebration of their Antarctica Day (see http://www.marambio.aq) on February 22nd.

As of print time, the following stations are expected to be active during the AAW event:

WAP-002 IR1ANT     via I1HYW    WAP-128 DA0ANT     via DC2SF
WAP-025 II5ANT     via IZ5BTC   WAP-130 IR2WAP     via IK2FIQ
WAP-030 II2ANT     via I2JJR    WAP-148 VA3AAO     via VE3XN
WAP-030 II2ANT/6   via I2JJR    WAP-151 S50IPY     via S51RU
WAP-044 IU8ANT     via I8QJU    WAP-153 5D0IPY     via I0YKN
WAP-052 IU2ANT     via IK2QPR   WAP-154 TM8ICE     via F8DVD
WAP-070 VA7AAW     via VE7IG    WAP-156 DR09ANT    via DL5MHQ
WAP-072 GB0ANT     via M3ZYZ    WAP-157 IP9IPY     via IT9YMM
WAP-073 K4A        via K6EID    WAP-159 IR1WAP     via IZ1GJK
WAP-081 HE8ICE     via HB9BHY   WAP-160 II5AM      via IK2IWU
WAP-085 OE3WWB/AAW via OE3WWB   WAP-161 IY8WAP     via IK8WEJ
WAP-086 OE3RPB/AAW via OE3RPB   WAP-162 UT1KY/WAP  via UT1KY
WAP-088 OE3KKA/AAW via OE3KKA   WAP-163 UT7UA/WAP  via UT7UA
WAP-089 OE3AIS/AAW via OE3AIS   WAP-164 UR5KGG/WAP via UR5KGG
WAP-090 OE3SGA/AAW via OE3SGA   WAP-165 UR8LV/WAP  via UR8LV
WAP-091 N5T/ANT    via W5BOS    WAP-166 UR5KCC/WAP via UR5KCC
WAP-094 IA0IPY     via I0YKN    WAP-167 UR2XO/WAP  via UR2XO
WAP-098 GB4IPY     via M3ZYZ    WAP-168 LZ06ANT    via LZ3SM
WAP-109 VA2WAP     via VE2LHP   WAP-169 LZ09IPY    via LZ3SM
WAP-111 VA3WAP     via VA3NQ    WAP-170 UE6ICE     via UE6GG
WAP-125 OE3HM/AAW  via OE3HM    WAP-171 EG2ANT     via EA2RC
WAP-126 OE3AGA/AAW via OE3AGA