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Expedition to seek contact from the world’s most remote island fails

Early last month, 13 amateur radio operators set sail from the Falklands Islands (Islas Malvinas) aboard a 31-meter-long sailboat.

The goal was as audacious as it was curious: to sail to the most remote uninhabited island on the planet, only to make contact with other radio amateurs from there.

What, at first, might seem like a rather meaningless goal - to cross one of the worst seas in the world and sail to the most remote island on the planet just to receive and send messages from there - was just the opposite for the amateur radio people, who are . . .

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