Soon after its formation SCAR set up a group of experts to assist in the overall coordination of Antarctic radio communications. The group first met at Cambridge in 1960.The following meetings was every year. The radio communication was one of the main way for normal work of network of British Antarctic Survey since first days in Antarctica. Faraday base, Halley base, Signy base, Bird island base was united by radio. Very often, radio group at bases consist from radio amateurs as high quality specialists in the wide band of radio.
Every base has a special call sign for amateur bands.
But, any radio amateur used personals calls like VP8AEN in 1982, VP8CQC later on. Roma has a big experience of polar work. He was a main radio operator on the Franz-Josef Land during 6 years since 1985. The radio amateurs has remembered calls UA1OT and 4K2OT later. In 1996, Roma represented Ukrainian Antarctic Center in Cambridge and came to Faraday base as first communication manager from Ukraine.