When the 3Y0Z DxPedition to Bouvet Island was abruptly cancelled, the Cape Town Amateur Radio Centre came to the rescue and formed a welcoming committee (organised chiefly by Paul ZS1S, as well as a number of other local and regional radio hams) to greet the weary travelers who had made it up from Bouvet Island after a rather bumpy ride through the roaring forties. They were assisted with their disembarcation at Cape Town, with logistics and with a combined welcome and farewell function at the Royal Cape Yacht Club, and later with lifts to the airport as well. Read about that (
here).
The 3Y0Z group were so grateful for their warm welcome that they donated their DxPedition colours to the Cape Town Amateur Radio Centre. So we display them proudly in our clubhouse, for although we did not take physically part in their journey to Bouvet Island, we were very much with them on air and in spirit, and we share the fellowship and fraternity with that great team and with the greater Amateur Radio community.
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