{"id":22017,"date":"2019-03-29T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=22017"},"modified":"2019-03-29T16:01:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T16:01:35","slug":"fierce-storm-delays-bouvet-island-dxpedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2019\/03\/29\/fierce-storm-delays-bouvet-island-dxpedition\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm delays Bouvet Island DXpedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The much-anticipated 3Y0I <a href=\"https:\/\/bouvetoya.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bouvet Island DXpedition<\/strong><\/a> has run into difficulties before having a chance to approach the island.<\/p>\n<p>Winds as high as 170km\/h, that\u2019s 105 mph, caused damage to their ship, the MV <em>Atlantic Tuna<\/em>, which is now heading back to Cape Town for assessment and repairs.<\/p>\n<p>The team is stressing that this setback represents a postponement, not a cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing both antennas in the storm, E51DOM\/mm is now back on the air and giving a taste of what signals from Bouvet could\u2014and will\u2014be like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much-anticipated 3Y0I Bouvet Island DXpedition has run into difficulties before having a chance to approach the island. Winds as high as 170km\/h, that\u2019s 105 mph, caused damage to their ship, the MV Atlantic Tuna, which is now heading back to Cape Town for assessment and repairs. The team is stressing that this setback represents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}