When I Google Ralph Fedor, K0IR, my guest this week on the QSO Today Podcast, I get page after page of responses. This is because Ralph seems to be one of the most popular and active "big" DXpeditioners in amateur radio today. When I say big, I mean DXpeditions where one spends weeks at sea to get to the most remote Islands.
Ralph was a member of the ill-fated Bouvet 3Y0Z team in 2018, where one catastrophic failure after another scuttled the project after arriving at Bouvet. The team was only able to circle the island before returning home.
I made a reference to one of my favorite movies in the 1960s, "Fate is the Hunter", where a plane crash on a beach was from a series of tiny but inconsequential failures that added to fate. Ralph's answer is quite enlightening. Sometimes, even with all of the planning, its not mean't to be.
While Ralph is a frequent guest on many podcasts, I hope that this interview with Ralph is different enough to make it interesting listening and an important contribution to this oral history of ham radio.
