This DXpedition team have said that if they have time they will activate the SOTA summit 3Y/BV-001 Olavtoppen on the island.
There is a chance that the DXPedition may stay 4 weeks on Bouvet rather than the originally planned 2 weeks. I suspect that a SOTA activation would only occur should the longer stay be decided upon.
Weāve just had the highest SOTA Summit (in Argentina) activated, it would be great to have the (perhaps) hardest to get to SOTA summit, also activated. Weāll have to wait and see.
Well, thatās just about the rarest DX there is! If they do the summit, Iāll be absolutely amazed. Iām not sure I have a very good chance to make the contact, but I suppose weāll see!
But the other really remote islands donāt have registered SOTA summits on them do they?
In any case - when I suggested this to the team over a year ago, they were positive ablot it gbeing a possibility, but it would be a low priority compared to everything else.
One point however is that the time of year and location will favour contact back into Europ over the Americas. Thatās relevant to the main stations - the portable SOTA set-up, who knows - as far as I know, no FT8 on the portable station, only SSB & CW.
Surely the hardest SOTA summits to get to and climb especially as both of them require getting to by boat and then needing full rock climbing gear are them 2 sea stacks in the St Kilda Islands which are part of the Scottish Islands.
Itās been discussed jokingly with the HL association manager (Jason HL4ZFA) but the lack of a local amateur as AM, and the relative suspicion inherent in tapping out CW on a summit in P5 would render it unlikely in the short term
(unless you count the semi-regular queries about folks signing /P5 when theyāre portable in VK5, in which case, weāve had plenty of those)
I see access is only available to the Brazilian navy. Lucky them!! I must have a chat with my companyās āRewards and Benefitsā team to see what they can offer to match such privileges