3Y0K Vessel Docked In South Africa

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