HRN 454: Bouvet by Sailboat?

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The DXpedition crew that attempted an operation on Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic back in 2018 reached the island - almost - only to be thwarted by bad weather and a failed engine. They limped back to port in South Africa. Bob Allphin K4UEE told their story in this video.

The Promo (sorry, not quite a ProMore, with David and Gary

A new team, with hams from Norway and around the globe, planned to try again. They contracted The Braveheart - a ship that had transported many DXpeditions to difficult locations (but wasn’t available to the 2018 crew). Then, the Braveheart was sold, and the DXpedition was cancelled.

And then it wasn’t. They found a new ship… a sailboat ???… to get them there (and back). Hmmm. ‘Sailboat’ and ‘Antarctic’ don’t seem to go together, do they? Well, the MARAMA isn’t your ‘catch the rays while lying on deck’ type of sailboat. It leads expeditions to the frozen south Atlantic all the time.

The re-started 3Y0J crew leaves to Bouvet in January 2023, with operation stretching into February. And we have crew member Adrian Ciuperca KO8SCA on the show tonight to fill us in.

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HRN 454: Bouvet by Sailboat?
KO8SCA, W0DHG, NO1PC, K4AAQ
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HRN 453: The Aggressive Elmer

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This is just the ProMore

This is the show.

A slightly clickbait title? Could be. But HRN East Coast Host Gary K4AAQ is on a bit of a crusade to answer questions found in ham radio (and GMRS) oriented Facebook groups and Reddit subs. He’s more than a little disappointed by the quality of many of the responses to basic questions. On this show, Gary joins NorCal host Jim NO1PC and Midwest Correspondent Kyle AA0Z to review a few classics.

Before that, though, the guys review 5 Great Reasons to Get Your Ham Radio License - an article in an RV blog introducing Amateur Radio to the author’s following. ‘Intro to Amateur Radio’ is always an interesting subject.

And getting ready, Gary did a solo Pro… More. He exceeded the (arbitrary) 30 minute minimum in the promo to qualify.

HRN 453: The Aggressive Elmer
NO1PC, K4AAQ, AA0Z
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HRN Episode 453 Poster - Gary, Jim, Kyle

HRN 452: ShowMORE

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File this show under ‘David and Gary Phone It In 📞☎’. We should change the title to ‘ShowLESS’

OK, we did a 90 minute ProMORE (that’s a Promo that runs MORE than 30 minutes) on Saturday, and we were kinda out of gas for this one. Then David had a plumbing emergency, and Gary had to get up early to drive to Raleigh (playing with the ICOM 5100 all the way). So we bailed.

Well, we did talk about some stuff, if halfheartedly, for almost an hour. Enough to list some links:

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HRN 452: ShowMORE
WDHG, K4AAQ
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