3Y0K Bouvet 2026

https://www.dx-world.net/3y0k-bouvet-2026/

 

assuming LoTW is back up by then - otherwise they will be losing a lot of their income!

Martin G8FXC

 

PLANS: https://www.dx-world.net/3y0k-bouvet-2026/

 

$1.6M????Please, they will never recover that! What a sham. I would like to see the budget breakdown

 

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If 3Y0L Organizers plan to take two helicopters to Peter I Island in order to "make this a safe and reliable operation as required
by the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI)", then it begs the question: Why is 3Y0K only taking one helicopter to Bouvet?

Does this mean NPI considers the proposed 3Y0K DXpedition to Bouvet Island to be unreliable and unsafe?

 

My opinion is spending 1.6 million dollars to go "CQ CQ..." somewhere is just plain foolish. Forget the helicopters. Go maritime mobile and anchor off the island. Everyone stays on board and are safe.
Do you think anyone would care if they are on the island or parked next to it? Can't launch helicopters due the typically bad weather in the area, now what? Well, you get the idea. The pileups will still be huge
and they would probably make more contacts also.

 

Safety is absolutely the first concern.

With their now planned 20 operators team, they're going to need 2 million.

73 from,
The K0UO " Rhombic Antenna Farm" miles of wire in the Air & On the AIR daily

 

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Potential donors usually want to see some indication that a DXpedition has a high likelihood of being
successful before donating, so here's a few other issues that 3Y0K Leaders need to address if they want
to see those DX$$$ donations rolling in:


3Y0L Website states that a landing permit for Peter I Island was obtained from the Norwegian Polar
Institute in April 2024. If this is the case, then why has a similar landing permit not also been obtained
for 3Y0K Bouvet Island as well?

Is the 3Y0K DXpedition properly insured?

Under which country's Civil Aviation regulations will the helicopter(s) be flying? Norway, South Africa?

Anything less than two helicopters stretches safety margins to the limit and the success of the entire
3Y0K Operation as well as the safety of all participants will be seriously compromised.

Indeed, will the DXpedition's insurers, the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) and the South
African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) even allow a vessel to leave Cape Town bound for Bouvet Island if
it is only carrying one small single-engined helicopter to service up to 48 passengers and several tons of cargo?

Will all helicopter passengers be required to wear full immersion suits* to comply with Civil Aviation
regulations?

Are all participants undertaking HUET & BOSIET** training courses prior to departure?

Can all participants swim and are they all physically fit enough to undertake such training?

Cape Fie is a bare rock escarpment that's recently become exposed due to the ongoing melting and
retreat of the Slakhallet icecap. It is long & steep and strewn with loose morainic material. Have any
areas sufficiently level & free of rock debris been identified at Cape Fie where a helicopter can land and
safely embark/disembark passengers? If not, where are passengers going to get on & off the helicopter(s)?

Establishing a second 'North America' camp by helicopter at a location where there is no escape route
by other means is a very foolhardy risk to take. Larsøya Island and the small 'plateau' on the SW of the
main Island overlooking it are both unsuitable camp locations for various reasons, including the most
obvious one that neither of them has a viable alternative escape route. If the helicopter(s) is unavailable
for whatever reason, then anyone camping at either of these locations becomes stranded there.

No competent or responsible safety review authority would ever allow such an unnecessary risk in such a
hostile and remote environment. Will the vessel captain and/or helicopter pilots even agree to such a plan?

Potential supporters & donors are waiting for news about how these important issues are being addressed.

73 DE VK0LD
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*In the frigid seas around Bouvet (-2ºC~+2ºC) you'll be unconscious within a few minutes without an
immersion suit. Sudden immersion in frigid water without suitable protection causes severe vasoconstriction and
breathing problems which can result in sudden death even in fit & healthy individuals.

**Helicopter Underwater Evacuation Training, cold-water Basic Offshore Safety Induction & Emergency
Training (mandatory in offshore industry for anyone flying over water in a helicopter). No good wearing
an immersion suit if helicopter has to ditch into the sea and you don't know what to do, especially if the
helicopter flips and you end up upside down underwater, which usually happens if skid floats don't deploy
correctly or there is a heavy sea swell. Aviation incidents in the Antarctic occur more often than most
people realize because they often go unreported in the mainstream media.

 

Latest news update:

https://www.dx-world.net/3y0k-bouvet-2026/

 

Looks like 3Y0Kenn has got his begging bowl out again (what, two hundred grand from NCDXF not enough?).
22 operators, most with little or no polar experience + a bunch of other 'Private Group' tourists
+ 12 stations on the air + one single small helicopter + known very high percentage of bad weather, rough
seas and 'no-fly' days around Bouvet = much less than 50/50 chance of even getting on the air.
Over ambitious and unrealistic planning from the outset; far too many operators & promising far too many
stations for starters. Almost guaranteed to fail, or at best spectacularly underperform the same way as 3Y0J did.
Getting to Bouvet is no more expensive than getting to anywhere else in the Southern Ocean and others have done
this kind of thing at other antartic islands for far less than $1.6 Million, so someone's being ripped-off somewhere.
Why donate to a lost cause? Let them pay for their own naivety & foolishness themselves.

 

NEWS UPDATE

https://www.dx-world.net/3y0k-bouvet-2026/

 

Bob W9AP, Tim K3LR and Adrian KO8SCA promoting the 3Y0K DXpedition at Contest University in the Hope Hotel, Dayton.

- pic by KB2FMH

 

yea Ken...keep begging,..,these guys look really fit to survive this expedition...I thought Ken said he had all the funds? 1.6M wasn't that the number? good luck