(OT maybe) 3Y0I Bouvet using K3's?

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(OT maybe) 3Y0I Bouvet using K3's?

John Harper
It has been implied that their official announcement will be the first CQ
from 3Y. Also, the trip from ZS to 3Y will take 12 days according to their
team leader. I'd bet that they have already left and are en route.

John AE5X
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Hi all,

This DX-pedition must be one of the best kept secrets in town. I was able to
find their web site:
https://bouvetoya.org/

But concrete plans are still very elusive. Apparently the team has arrived
in South Africa and they have a ship on hand. No date has been set for their
sailing as far as I can see.
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Re: (OT maybe) 3Y0I Bouvet using K3's?

ab2tc
Hi again,

Wow! I wonder why the secrecy? I understand this is a low budget expedition,
but logging on to the Internet while they are still in Cape Town can't be
that expensive.

On the equipment question, I am guessing they are not sponsored by Elecraft.
Maybe they are using their own personal rigs. In a previous message in this
thread it was suggested that at least one of the team members had acquired a
2nd hand K3(?).

AB2TC - Knut


John Harper wrote
> It has been implied that their official announcement will be the first CQ
> from 3Y. Also, the trip from ZS to 3Y will take 12 days according to their
> team leader. I'd bet that they have already left and are en route.
>
> John AE5X
> https://ae5x.blogspot.com
> _________________________________
> <snip>





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Re: (OT maybe) 3Y0I Bouvet using K3's?

David Olean
Darn! I better get going on a new beverage for 140 degrees or so. I have
one at 180 and another at 100 degrees, but neither is optimum.  I had a
temporary one last season for the aborted Bouvet DxPedition,  but I took
it down as it was in the way for mowing my field. It was only 4 ft off
the ground.   I could find no date when they were to be QRV, but if they
are in ZS Africa it must be really soon. Ground has not frozen yet.

Dave K1WHS


On 11/17/2018 8:16 PM, ab2tc wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Wow! I wonder why the secrecy? I understand this is a low budget expedition,
> but logging on to the Internet while they are still in Cape Town can't be
> that expensive.
>
> On the equipment question, I am guessing they are not sponsored by Elecraft.
> Maybe they are using their own personal rigs. In a previous message in this
> thread it was suggested that at least one of the team members had acquired a
> 2nd hand K3(?).
>
> AB2TC - Knut
>
>
> John Harper wrote
>> It has been implied that their official announcement will be the first CQ
>> from 3Y. Also, the trip from ZS to 3Y will take 12 days according to their
>> team leader. I'd bet that they have already left and are en route.
>>
>> John AE5X
>> https://ae5x.blogspot.com
>> _________________________________
>> <snip>
>
>
>
>
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Re: (OT maybe) 3Y0I Bouvet using K3's?

ab2tc
Hi David,

Best of luck with getting up a good receiving antenna for the expedition. Is
that one for 20m which is probably the most likely the best chance for
getting this ATNO? When the Peter I Island (in the same general area)
expedition was out there, I could hear nothing but a whisper from them (and
as the saying goes, if you can't hear'em you can't work'em, and sure enough
I didn't), but I do have better antennas now for points south. I kind of
reckon that if I can't hear them with my regular transmitting antennas, they
won't hear me with my 100W on the same antennas either. So I have never
bothered with erecting special receiving antennas. I don't have the acreage
for it either. But I am crossing my fingers that this DX-pedition will
succeed (and be heard up here with no exceptional receiving antennas).

AB2TC - Knut


David Olean wrote

> Darn! I better get going on a new beverage for 140 degrees or so. I have
> one at 180 and another at 100 degrees, but neither is optimum.  I had a
> temporary one last season for the aborted Bouvet DxPedition,  but I took
> it down as it was in the way for mowing my field. It was only 4 ft off
> the ground.   I could find no date when they were to be QRV, but if they
> are in ZS Africa it must be really soon. Ground has not frozen yet.
>
> Dave K1WHS
>
>
> On 11/17/2018 8:16 PM, ab2tc wrote:





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