[CQ-Contest] Fwd: Expeditions remote

[Mike Fatchett W0MU]

This is a hobby.  Should we really expect people to risk their lives?  
If you don't like the operation simply don't work it. Just like emails 
you don't like.  Delete and move on.  Nobody is forcing you to work 
anything.

W0MU

On 1/7/2026 9:47 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 1/7/2026 2:30 PM, Steve Dyer W1SRD via CQ-Contest wrote:
>> It's used to be about the challenge of getting to, setting up, 
>> roughing it AND radio.
>>
>> The non-permitting on environmental basis is BS for Desecheo/Navassa. 
>> People land all the time on both. Nothing stopping them, certainly 
>> not U.S. F&W.
>
> Well, there's the cost. The amount spent on the last failed trip to 
> Bouvet was obscene, when RIB had a far greater chance of success, at 
> far less cost. As long as folks want to pay their own way to do the 
> roughing it thing, more power to them. But don't go begging when it 
> can be done well at far lower cost. Most of us have more important 
> ways to spend our savings.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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