3Y0K Vessel Docked In South Africa.
Looks the the vessel “Argus” has docked in Cape Town South Africa today according to the Marine Traffic Website. I suspect they’re taking on fuel, loading the containers of radio equipment & supplies, mounting the helicopter and boarding the Helo Pilots and 3Y0K DXpedition Team. Hopefully within a week or two the ship will be ready to go. The next issue they’ll have to work through will be the weather. I vividly remember the 3Y0Z and 3Y0I failed DXpeditions. Weather will be an issue. There is no such thing as “comfortable passage” through the Southern Hemisphere’s Roaring Forties and Furious Fifties.
It is noted there’s a couple Australian assholes trying to sabotage this herculean effort to get Bouvet Island activated and on the air. This knucklehead and his sock puppets have been sending letters and calling authorities all over the world in their attempt to get this Bouvet DXpedition canceled. What a world we live in these days. A few Hams doing everything their little peanuts can muster to thwart other Hams from activating an ultra rare ARRL DXCC Entity. That about sums up Ham Radio these days. Between ignoramuses like Alan Chesire VK0LD and his aliases, this DXing hobby of ours is in steep decline and has been for quite some time. I’d be willing to wager good money this guy will be one of the imbeciles dropping carriers, using pirated callsigns and intentionally interfering with 3Y0K wherever they show up. I don’t think I’ll find a single Ham willing to bet against me.
Anyway, I’m ready, willing and able to chase 3Y0K whenever they show up on those tried and true “Human Modes”! With a budget of somewhere around $2,000,000.00 this very well may be the last DXpedition to Bouvet for a long, long time.
I’ll be tracking their progress daily via this link at Marine Traffic (click View on live map)
Fellow DXers I’ll see you in the Human Mode pileups!
N0UN
Alan Chesire VK6CQ VK0LD VK0MM (and his several other sock puppet aliases) looks like a complete fool now that Ken and the Bouvet Team have landed and are on the air making history.
The boat he said was repossessed and mechanically would never make it has been magnificent. The helicopter and pilots he said would never work have been magnificent. The Team that he said had so much infighting they’d never work together has been on the air making Q’s and have been magnificent. The Norwegian licensing authorities he said will not allow this operation obviously have allowed this operation. The list is long of his failed efforts to thwart this DXpedition at every turn, and ALL have been in vain. Whatever reputation he had – has been destroyed.
Nobody will ever fall for his bullshit again.
I don’t feel bad for the nay-saying followers either. Hopefully not a single damn one of them make the 3Y0K Log.
N0UN
Wayne I thought you had enough of Eham DX forums ?
Looks like someone is still reading this forum 😆
Alan Chesire, your reputation across QRZ, eHam and others precedes you. Why so many sock puppets? Nobody to talk to so you talk to yourself? Why not ONE callsign/username? You post under separate Callsigns with different email addresses on different Forums and Blogs, yet all the same IP and computer User Agent. You don’t think the owners of these places talk amongst themselves? Same with the DX Clusters. You’re a joke. Move along, go bother somebody else.
N0UN
Your all just jealous because the VKs are the biggest dxers on the planet.
Different email and Callsign but the same IP and User Agent as the rest across several platforms. You have to do better Alan Chesire!
N0UN
I’m hoping they’ll be leaving within the next day or two before the weather gets any worse. It’ll take probably 5-7 days to get there. And March is usually when the weather takes a big turn for the worse. If they don’t leave for a week or more….they’ll be heading into the “eye of the storm”….so to speak. Just don’t want to see them get there and then sit anchored and never get on the Island! We’ve seen that happen before. I need Bouvet. Never worked em’. It would be an ATNO for me…….
So here’s hoping for safe sailing and some good enough weather to actually get on Bouvet. And that the lids and jammers are minimal (hey, a fellow can dream)…so we also actually can hear em’. And they work more HUMAN MODE…..than the AI computer to computer, alias….the dreaded…..FT8……
K4TK
Mate, he’s giving us Aussie’s a bad name. He’s full of himself and annoying as hell
Here we call Chesire a “głupi człowiek”