3Y0K, Bouvet 2026

Biggest share of them are in Europe

 

I do not think so.....
Not with the signals that are that strong

 

Given the fact that I have yet to hear them, and that my best band performancewise is 20m where I have s8 noise from a neighbour all day, adding the fact that I will be out of the country on march 10 for 9 days, I pretty much ruled out Bouvet getting in my log.
However I worked 8Q7ZW for an ATNO today, Macao and Central Kiribati are coming at the end of the month for two more ATNOs possibilities, life goes on.

And the Cyprus SBA has been cancelled for obious reasons, oh well... maybe next time.

 

Right !

That’s why I worked them on CW !!!!

 

Good luck. Never know !!! Also am chasing the 8Q7 on Maldives. Worked 8Q7AC and others many times but yet to have any e-confirmation Looking forward to XX9 (macao is a bit seedy yet fascinatingly cool place. Been there several times) and central Kiribati too.

 

For far less than the cost of fuel for the helicopter, they could spool up servers on AWS behind load balancers, and manage them in near-real-time over starlink.

Treating DXpidition QSOs as an online video game would allow strategies like rapid frequency agility. Changing frequencies every 60 seconds or so, and posting that frequency change a random number of seconds of time later, would rapidly identify the pirates still transmitting on the old or wrong frequencies. Spinning the dial to listen (or watching the waterfall) would then have more value than using spotting networks with latency. Or, for commercial DXpeditions, the DX could take non-anonymous micropayments for being notified over the internet a few seconds in advance of where the DX will be transmitting and/or listening. Leaving jammers temporarily in the cold (or out of some cash). Also reducng the size of any pile-ups.

 

I'll let your view into the future of Amateur radio just hang in the air, for everyone to contemplate in silence.

"But I am curious to know, are you trying to make a convert of me or a pervert of yourself?"
--Stephen Dedalus to his friend, Cranly

73

 

Perfect for next time - this time it ain’t happening so work them the old fashioned way. Listen. Listen and listen. then listen some more. Make sure you know how to use split … You’ll learn where they like to listen. Call where they last worked a station. Basic DX stuff. Listen listen listen.

hint: One guy likes 2-3 up. Stays within 2-3 kHz of his QRG. Another likes 5-6 up. One guy is less proficient typing on the computer than the other…. So his rate is slower. Requires 2 or 3 calls vs one. Etc etc.

 

I heard them on phone this morning, but left FT8 on all day while at work, hundreds of stations calling them but I haven't seen a single response or call from them yet.

 

OT4A impersonator at it again. Among other stuff

 

after around 04:00 UTC, the drunks finally pass out from too much vodka and the DQRM subsides...

 

Wayne - N0UN 20m/ SSB Longpath

 

Credit: @Chun

https://x.com/i/status/2029231835788570838

Helicopter flight around the island

00:00 Williamsrevet — named after American sealer Captain John Williams, who landed on Bouvet Island in 1878.

00:30 Helicopter taking off with cargo from the deck of Argus

02:22 Start of the flight around the island

02:33 – 00:42 Nyknausen (99 m)

03:08 Randibreen

03:34–03:41 Christensenbreen — named after Norwegian whaling magnate Lars Christensen, who financed the Norvegia expedition to Bouvet Island in 1927.

03:53 Selloden Point

04:09 Larsoya Island

04:36 Clouds over Rustadkollen (340 m) in clouds when the 3Y0K team originally planned a camp in the southwest part of Bouvet to work NA

05:08–05:13 Bollevika Bay — the place where the Norvegia expedition made the first landing on Bouvet Island in 1927

05:20–05:26 Aagaardbreen. Bjarne Aagaard, sent by Lars Christensen, found and bought in a London second-hand shop for five shillings an 1839 Ross Admiralty chart showing Bouvet Island with a question mark — a detail that later allowed Norway to annex it.

06:00 Westwindstranda Beach — named after the vessel that first discovered the landslide in this area in January 1958

06:02–06:05 A white Norwegian weather station is visible on the Nyroysa coast. The trapezoid-shaped patch at the foot of the slope is Lake Selbadet, where the sailors of the Slava‑9 expedition went ashore in 1958 and where their boat was discovered in 1965.

06:30–06:37 Cape de la Circoncision, named by Lieutenant Jean‑Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier and mapped by him on 1 January 1739.

07:14 Posadowskybreen, Wilhelm‑II Peak, Valdivia — German toponyms assigned by the 1898 Valdivia expedition.

07:26 On the right — a small beach used as a Zodiac landing site for tourists.

07:43–07:50 Smallstranda Beach

08:00 Valdivia — named after the vessel of the deep‑sea expedition of Dr. Carl Chun in 1898, which produced some of the first photo of Bouvet Island, including famous F. Winter’s watercolor published in Chun’s 1903 report.



https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...Bouvet_island_0.jpg/960px-Bouvet_island_0.jpg

08:53–09:04 Ole Høilandstøtta

09:17–09:22 On the left: Cape Lollo

09:50–10:06 Flying over the spot on the ice cap where the 3Y0Z expedition planned its camp

12:24 On the right by the sea: Cape Fie

12:33 On the left: tents of the 3Y0K camp

13:12 Nyknausen (99 m)

13:49 Svartstranda Beach

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Bouvet_Island_topographic_map-en.svg

 

INFO 5 Marzo ---> https://ea1cs.blogspot.com/2023/10/3y0k-bouvet.html

 

I dont think I want to go there for
a 2 week vacation.

K8PG Paul