Isfjord Radio, Svalbard (March 2011)

Isfjord Radio

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Travel & Events

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• Isfjord
• Radio
• Kap
• Linne
• Svalbard
• Spitsbergen
• arctic
• Norway
• Basecamp

[TalksWithDirt]

@53 sec those parabolic dishes are fixed on the horizon. The aperture tells me there's a fair amount of data relaying through there at quite some distance. A very tall tower on mainland Norway? But no it's too far away. Is there a relay station on a small island between Svalbard and Norway? If they had elevation bearings I might think that they are relaying to geo birds in an inclined geo orbit and that you were servicing them on the ascending node. But those are fixed. Do tell. Thanks!

[torgeirp]

@TalksWithDirt In the good old days Isfjord radio was the communication link for the Svalbard community. One of the few places that could reach a geo synchronal satellite due to the low elevation. But that was before the 21th century with 2 x 20 GB fiber cables to mainland Norway, so those dishes are not in use any more. They are only a testament to a long gone time.

[Nortrix87]

Fine tider framover nå som solen kommer tilbake =)

Flott tur! =)

[torgeirp]

@Nortrix87: Tida går bare så alt for fort.

[kkatsiam14]

...going mad for that frozen blue light....!

[TalksWithDirt]

@torgeirp Thank you for the answer. I suppose the Russians used their Molnaya series satellites back in the Soviet days. My goodness Im so old and stuck in the cold war I don't even know if the Russians still use Molnaya orbits for communications relay. They fly so little today from what they used to put up. I'm going to have to look that up.

[yourforte]

Beautiful place.

[Osprey1790]

Fantastic!!

[Nortrix87]

@torgeirp En får leve mens en kan =)