[Nodxa] More sad news de 3Y0J

[Tedd Mirgliotta (KB8NW)]

The following was posted on the WTDXA Groups.io mail list by N4MJ:


    3Y0J Bouvet Island News 8 February 2023 Part 3

If you have made a QSO with 3Y0J, and you are sure of it, the team has 
requested that you NOT TRY TO FILL OTHER BAND/MODE SLOTS. You are taking 
an ATNO away from someone else.

Yes, I know that you can’t be totally sure until the log upload 
(probably this weekend, has to be from the boat), but some of you really 
know, from the exchange, the timing, etc. that you got through. As the 
Beatles said, “Let it Be.”

The DXpedition is operating in a truly bare-bones backup mode, with no 
amplifiers, no big antennas, few stations, and no generator or fuel to 
power any of that even if they did have it.

The team will be lucky to get 20K QSOs instead of the intended 200K, and 
no one will be going to Bouvet for a long time after. Please DO spot 
them, help your friends and clubmates to get in the log, etc., but don’t 
try to fill slots.

In particular, the team has requested that if you have contacted them on 
CW or SSB, DO NOT CONTACT THEM ON FT8. FT8 operation began today, and 
may be the only means for more modest stations to get in the log. Give 
them a chance.

Also please note: 3Y0J may go QRT (or revert to even more limited 
operation) as a big storm is passing through between now and Thursday. 
They plan to take some antennas down to prevent damage. The nine 
on-island team members will remain on the island and hunker down, as it 
is too difficult and dangerous to go back to the Marama, which has moved 
even farther from Bouvet in preparation for the storm.

Rich KE1B

West Coast Pilot, 3Y0J