[SADXA] Bouvet Island 3Y0IOF

Mon Dec 3 12:18:23 EST 2012

This is one inhospitable place.  Hats off to this group of brave souls.

According to Wikipedia

Bouvet Island (Norwegian<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway>: Bouvetøya,[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvet_Island#cite_note-FOR19711217-1> previously spelled Bouvet-øya[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvet_Island#cite_note-LOV19300227-2>) is an uninhabited subantarctic<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subantarctic> volcanic island<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_island> and dependency<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependencies_of_Norway> of Norway<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway> located in the South Atlantic Ocean<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Ocean> at 54°25.8′S 3°22.8′E<http://toolserver.org/%7Egeohack/geohack.php?pagename=Bouvet_Island&params=54_25.8_S_3_22.8_E_type:isle_region:BV>Coordinates<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system>: [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/WMA_button2b.png/17px-WMA_button2b.png] 54°25.8′S 3°22.8′E<http://toolserver.org/%7Egeohack/geohack.php?pagename=Bouvet_Island&params=54_25.8_S_3_22.8_E_type:isle_region:BV>. Lying at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge>, it is the most remote island<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_points_of_Earth#Remoteness> in the world. The island has an area of 49 square kilometers (19 sq mi), of which 93 percent is covered by a glacier<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier>. The center of the island is an ice-filled crater of an inactive volcano<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano>. Along the coast lie some skerries<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skerry> and one island, Larsøya<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%C3%B8ya>. Nyrøysa<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nyr%C3%B8ysa&action=edit&redlink=1>, created by a rock slide<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_slide> in the late 1950s, is the only easy place to land and features a weather station<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_station>.

The island was first spotted on 1 January 1739 by and was later named for Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Charles_Bouvet_de_Lozier>. He recorded inaccurate coordinates, and the island was not sighted again until James Lindsay named it Lindsay Island in 1808. The first claim of landing, although disputed, was by Benjamin Morrell<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Morrell>. The island was claimed for the British Crown<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Crown> by George Norris in 1825, who named it Liverpool Island. He also spotted a nearby phantom island<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_island>, Thompson Island<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Island_%28South_Atlantic%29>. The First Norvegia Expedition<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Riiser-Larsen#The_Norvegia_expeditions> landed on the island in 1927 and claimed it for Norway. After a dispute with the UK, it was declared a Norwegian dependency in 1930. It became a nature reserve<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_reserve> in 1971.

Ted w7key

Www.teddowning.com

On 12/2/12 11:14 PM, "Keith Schlottman, CPA, PFS" <keith at schlottmancpa.com<mailto:keith at schlottmancpa.com>> wrote:

A Dx'er friend sent me this...
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3 December 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

After a lot of negotiation we are pleased to announce a multinational team
of twelve is to undertake a Dxpedition to Bouvet Island from 25 March 2013
to 5 April 2013 using the callsign 3Y0IOF.

We will be operating 24/7 with five stations covering all bands 160m-10m.

We understand that Dxpeditions are all about you the DX operator therefore
we are pleased to announce some exciting new innovations.

We appreciate many of you feel you should not have to make any effort to
work us. Accordingly we are offering you the chance to call us on the
telephone when you are ready for a QSO.  That’s right we will give you a
phone number and when you are ready you can ring us and we will immediately
cease to work the pile up and call you on a frequency of your choice.  Not
only that we will also ensure an email is sent to you directly after the
QSO to confirm you are in the log.  Furthermore we are organising a team of
experts who, if you wish, will fly in and set up your rig on the required
frequency, connect the antenna for you and make sure the heating or
ventilation is on so it is nice and warm or cool in your shack as the case
requires.  Don’t worry about propagation.  We will make sure there is some
between us as we understand that is our responsibility and it’s our fault
if there isn’t.

If that is not for you then don’t worry we are just as happy to work you in
a pile up.  We realise that we will need to operate in accordance with your
operating habits so therefore we will understand if you call over the top
of another station we are trying to work, or when we are specifically
calling a part of the world you do not reside in, or if you are simply
calling aimlessly or while we are transmitting, or even if you call when
you cannot hear us.  We will do our best to work you despite all this and
yes we know it’s our fault if you do not make it into the log.

We wish to acknowledge the value Frequency Cops bring to a Dxpedition so to
recognise this we are going to specifically publicise some times when we
will arrange for some operators to deliberately call us on our frequency
instead of split.  Frequency Cops can even register their availability with
us to help us ensure these periods get maximum uptake by the Frequency Cop
community.  During these periods the Frequency Cops will be able to say or
send “up up!” to their hearts content. (Note: we will make sure we tell the
pile up to listen up and not down as the recent PT0S Dxpedition has taught
us that Frequency Cops don’t know how to send “down” in CW).

We also don’t want the “tuner uppers” to feel left out and like them we
feel dummy loads are completely overrated.  So when we are ready to
transmit on a band we will give them the opportunity to tune up on our
frequency before we start working the pile up.  Each period will start with
us sending our callsign and “QDL” (“Quick Dummy Loaders”) so they will know
when to commence tuning up on us.  We will allow for at least five minutes
for this as we know how important it is for the tuner uppers to make sure
their finals are good and ready.  We acknowledge if they go bang it’s our
fault.  Depending on demand we will every now and then send “QDL” while
working a pile up so any tuner uppers late to the party can tune up on us
as well.

Unfortunately we will not have cluster access while we are on Bouvet but we
know this will not stop you posting announcements and comments on the
cluster about our Dxpedition.  Some suggestions for you to try include
saying what band you want us to QSY to or mode to operate on, the quality
of our ops and the usual “loud”, “can’t hear them here”, “thanks for 7th
band” or “yee hah” comments.  Likewise as we noted above we understand it’s
our fault if you cannot work us and therefore we accept in that case you
will post on the cluster calling us the worst Dxpedition ever.

We can’t wait to be of service to you.

The 3Y0IOF Team

RELEASE ENDS
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