CLUBLOG – NA WEST COAST – MOST WANTED LIST -AUGUST 24, 2017

Wednesday, September 20th, 2017

The Clublog website gives you the ability to select various geographical areas to see their Most Wanted List. This is the one most closest to us. This is a listing of only the TOP 20 out of all the entities. Clublog has the complete listing for you.

1. SV/A MOUNT ATHOS
2. FT5/W CROZET ISLAND
3. P5 DPRK (NORTH KOREA)

4. 3Y/B BOUVET ISLAND BOUVET LINK

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Bouvet Island DXpedition – 3YØZ

Press Release #7
August 22, 2017

This Press Release is meant to be an update to our many financial supporters in the DX community and others who may be considering supporting our efforts to activate the # 2 DXCC most wanted— BOUVET Island. Our fund-raising began about this time last year, so we have been at it for 12 months. We are extremely grateful for the excitement, encouragement and actual contributions that have come our way. It has truly been amazing to see how the DX community has stepped up to help “make this happen”.

We believe that we have negotiated a contract with our transportation partners that gives us a good idea of what our costs will ultimately be. This expense represents most of our overall costs. Regarding the remainder of our budget, cost control is a daily challenge and a priority for leadership and the team. We take it very seriously. However, recently we made a couple of changes affecting the expense side of our equation. This accounts for a small 3% increase in our overall costs, but will make life on Bouvet safer and more comfortable. We have decided to add a second Operating shelter (OP B) and a third sleeping shelter (Sleep C). This will allow us to have more room to place our 14 one-KW stations (12 HF and 2 EME) and to separate the operating modes. This will make our 14-16 estimated days of 24/7 operating more comfortable and less challenging. The bottom line is we have a small percentage increase in costs, but the on-island benefits are well worth the extra expense.

In summary, looking at our income from the Operating Team itself, the DX Foundations, DX Clubs and individual DXers worldwide and our estimates of what our costs will turn out to be, we feel we are in a good and enviable position…but we are still short over $100,000. With this in mind, we are continuing to ask for your financial support. You may visit our DXpedition website www.bouvetdx.org and click on a “donate” button.

Many thanks, CU in the pileups!

73,
Bob-K4UEE
Ralph-KØIR
Erling-LA6VM

5. FT/G GLORIOSO ISLAND
6. YK SYRIA
7. EZ TURKMENISTAN
8. ZS8 PRINCE EDWARD & MARION ISLANDS
9. FT5/X KERGUELEN ISLAND
10. T5 SOMALIA
11. BV9P PRATAS ISLAND
12. BS7H SCARBOROUGH REEF
13. 5A LIBYA
14. CE0X SAN FELIX ISLANDS
15. 3A MONACO
16. VK0M MACQUARIE ISLAND
17. PY0T TRINDADE & MARTIM VAZ ISLANDS
18. E4 PALESTINE
19. AP PAKISTAN

20. KH1 BAKER HOWLAND ISLANDS BAKER HOWLAND LINK

August 25, 2017

The Dateline DX Association is very pleased to announce significant progress in our planning to operate in 2018 from KH1, Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge, the 4th most wanted entity in the DXCC program. We have executed a charter agreement with a ship, the Nai’a out of Fiji with an anticipated arrival at the refuge during the 3rd week of June, 2018. We intend to be at the refuge a total of 12 days with 10 days of operations. This ship and dates were chosen in consultation with the US Fish and Wildlife service based on availability of their resource monitor, avoidance of the cyclone season, and Nai’a availability. Propagation forecasts look favorable for HF to Western Europe (a large target audience for us) during this time as well.

As with any DXpedition to the really rare ones, this will be another large budget operation. The 11 ham team will contribute over 50% of the expected budget of $400,000. You can help make this DXpedition happen by visiting our new website, http://www.baker2018.net/ and contributing today. We wish to thank the US Fish and Wildlife Service for their trust in our group to safely and responsibly activate this rare location.

Co-Leaders:
Don Greenbaum, N1DG
Tom Harrell, N4XP
Kevin Rowett, K6TD