[ADXA] Z81D South Sudan is now confirmed - Good George. Addendum stuff

[HamOP]

Good information and suggestions George ..  
   Glad you got the Z81D confirmation. But eQSL is not accepted by most awards for reasons that date back about 8 years ago, long story. I used to check it every 4-5 months or so back then, just to see who may have QSLed to me using the eQSL route instead of sending me a simple buro card.. Not sure how many use eQSL for their ‘own personal’ satisfaction nowadays. 
   That is where the sometimes very slow LoTW comes in handy for the DXCC awards, saves a lot of postal money to and from a manager or using OQRS too much.. I personally use ClubLog and OQRS for cards really needed for my multiple shoe box files. That’s just the way it is in today’s DXing confirmation system. HI
   No new DX heard here in recent days. I would like to catch the T6AA on CW for the sake of having one QSO from him, especially if on a new band. See him on 14mc a lot, especially FT8 and he ventures into 40m chaos occasionally, mainly FT8. Wud be nice if he got on 18 and 21mc just a little bit. 
   Take care. Doing well here except tired of being tired all the time. Walked yesterday and felt better this morning except for more nasal stuffiness this morning from all the pollen I inhaled while walking. Uggg  
San YY

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From: WB5JJJ
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 9:31 AM
To: ADXA Mailing List
Subject: [ADXA] Z81D South Sudan is now confirmed - sorta

Unfortunately, they don't use LoTW.  

Got the confirmation on eQSL this morning and went to ClubLog and the contact was confirmed there as well.  Requested DIRECT QSL card for $3.00.  This seems to be the norm lately.  No LoTW or delayed by 6mo to a year before uploading.  The DXers are taking a page from the airlines playbook.  Fees, fees, fees.  Or at least that is the way it WAS prior to the Coronavirus situation.  

Speaking of that.  It appears that all the cruise lines we have grown to accustom to using for trips will NOT be able to receive the stimulus packages since they are foreign flagged.  Only about 5 cruise ships fly Old Glory and should be eligible.  What goes around, comes around (to bite you).  

Hope everybody is doing well and staying home (if possible) and in front of the radio.  My routine has not changed much as I'm not one that did a lot of external socializing, even before the self isolation was mandated.  Still looking for ND on CW for Triple Play.  And no, did not see one over the weekend on BW or FOC.  Waiting on a couple others to confirm on LoTW.  They are a month or so behind on their uploading.  

So, all of this is not much of an inconvenience for me except that I can't go out and eat or shop in some stores that I frequented before.  My pantry is pretty much stocked, even before all this happened, but still go to Neighborhood Market about once a week to top off items used.  Yesterday afternoon, it was almost a ghost town inside.  An employee said that "you just caught us at a good time".  

Now a bit of sad news from here.  Spoiler Alert - happy ending.  I was getting an item off a kitchen cabinet shelf and a large can of Progresso soup managed to get dislodged and it came down on the keyboard of my poor little open Acer laptop sitting on the counter.  Screen came on, mouse moved, but nothing else worked.  Rebooted, and NOTHING.  Opened it up and listened to the HDD up close and could hear it spinning, but no head movement was detected.  Probably the shock knocked it off it's mount.  Slipped in an SSD (which I was going to do someday anyway) and it found a non-bootable device.  This was a good sign.  It was alive, sorta.  

Plugged in my Acronis USB Restore stick and was able to restore the little guy to normal operation in about 15 minutes or less.  I back up ALL my computers (3) and laptops (2) using Acronis every overnight.  This has saved my bacon so many times.  

I've run backups since the 3.5" floppy days, where it took 15 or 20 of them, and this was done at least once a week.  Then I moved to 250mb tape cartridges, which took 4 or 5 and a LOT faster.  Finally to external USB drives and like here at home, to my NAS server.  

BACKUP, Backup, backup.  I do a complete system image backup each night and it takes from 30 to 90 minutes, depending on the machine.  A single file can be restored in seconds from this image, if needed.  And so much faster restore than using an incremental or differential backup way.  

73's guys, Stay safe.  

-- 
George - WB5JJJ


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