"It’s over. They’re QRT. Lots of issues getting setup, weather, trouble with scaling the rocks, you name it - they had a lot of problems.
Well, dang. This was supposedly the rarest DX location save for North Korea."
What were they thinking? This was a "Snowball" to far.
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These DXpeditions are incredibly expensive and also dangerous.
In other DXpeditions Amateur operators have been killed by weather sinking boats and by hostile humans.
Lack of adequate information and resources only adds to the dangers.
The old Soviet government classed amateur radio as a sport;people push themselves to extremes for sports.