{"id":33003,"date":"2018-06-28T07:28:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T11:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=33003"},"modified":"2018-06-28T07:28:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T11:28:57","slug":"the-story-behind-the-recent-bouvet-island-3y0z-dxpedition-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/the-story-behind-the-recent-bouvet-island-3y0z-dxpedition-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"The story behind the recent Bouvet Island 3Y0Z DXpedition attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DAP-Ship-3Y0Z.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33004\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DAP-Ship-3Y0Z.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"936\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DAP-Ship-3Y0Z.jpeg 936w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DAP-Ship-3Y0Z-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DAP-Ship-3Y0Z-768x401.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DAP-Ship-3Y0Z-624x326.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southgatearc.org\/news\/2018\/june\/3yoz-dxpedition-the-complete-story.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southgate ARC<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bob, K4UEE<\/strong>, narrated an interesting PowerPoint presentation at both the recent DX Forum at the Dayton HamVention and the W5DXCC\/HamCom.<\/p>\n<p>This presentation includes a summary of the 3Y0Z DXpedition with stunning pictures, their Vessel vetting process, what they learned, planned refund of remaining funds, another attempt, and some personal observations of K4UEE.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Nq7degLxJOw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the Presentation:<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nq7degLxJOw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Southgate ARC) Bob, K4UEE, narrated an interesting PowerPoint presentation at both the recent DX Forum at the Dayton HamVention and the W5DXCC\/HamCom. This presentation includes a summary of the 3Y0Z DXpedition with stunning pictures, their Vessel vetting process, what they learned, planned refund of remaining funds, another attempt, and some personal observations of K4UEE. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,304],"tags":[7129,7131,7130,4098,7132,580],"class_list":["post-33003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-videos","tag-3y0z","tag-3y0z-dxpedition","tag-bouvet-island","tag-dxpeditions","tag-k4uee","tag-southgate-arc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8Aj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31571,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/st-bandon-3b7a-an-all-sdr-dxpedition\/","url_meta":{"origin":33003,"position":0},"title":"St. Bandon (3B7A): An all-SDR DXpedition","author":"Thomas","date":"April 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Hansgen (K8RAT), for passing along this press release from SunSDR: The 3B7A Saint Brandon\u00a0team is now active from Saint Brandon and we are exited! 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