A photo of the Cabin on Sredney Island, home of Russian Soldiers.

North Pole Expedition 2002.

Looking more closely at the boat I noticed a long wire that was attached to the hull which traveled across the snow going up toward the cabin that we slept in.  It seemed to be some sort of a grounding wire for the Amateur Radio system that the Russian Workers had set up.  They had a lot of amateur radio equipment, at least they had a lot of different antennas on the island.  When were sitting in the room we could hear the Russians upstairs sending and receiving radio signals.   I'm a bit rusty on the code and it was real faint but I was able to make a little of the message out.  We had a girl in the room that kept saying, "If someone knew the code we could find out what they were saying."  I'm sorry to say if she would have just kept quiet and stopped asking the same question over and over, maybe I could hear enough to find out what they were saying.  Well, as it goes, too much talk and not enough listening kept us from the secret.

Again, I'm jumping around a bit, but, Thomas and I climbed the hill and found Anand wandering around the island.  I wish, to this day, that I would have asked others if they wanted to explore the island instead of sitting in the room for about fourteen hours.  Anand was a real nice person and was very interesting to talk to and it would have been fun if he was walking with us to the other island.

In the picture above you could see the inside of the room.  The paint was pealing off of the walls, there were electrical wires going to terminals on the wall with absolutely no covering to protect someone from touching them,  coaxial cables were strung along the walls, the door wouldn't shut, we only had a small electric heater and with the door open all of us were near freezing.   We slept on beds that had no mattresses and there just wasn't enough room for everyone so some brave people, like Thomas, crawled under other peoples beds for their naps.

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