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

Mon Mar 30 11:45:58 EDT 2020

I worked Z81D the other day.  I guess I need to figure out how to get it 
confirmed too.  I've been trying to work any needed digital countries on 
FT8.  Something to do.  I just let it run and occasionally scroll back 
to see if there is something new active. I finally worked the 7X that is 
always on but can't hear anyone. Not sure how I got that lucky.  It 
appears to me and I have confirmed it by emailing op in a few cases that 
more than a few of these foreign stations in third-world countries have 
terrible noise problems.  They hit me with a very strong signal but I 
can't penetrate their noise, even with significant power.  At first I 
thought it was my station.

If anyone is interested, I have been chatting with some of my VHF/UHF 
friends on 3685 at 730p CST every evening.  K4XR, W4ZRZ, K4QF to name a 
few.  More something to do.  I was thinking about building a couple of 
antennas I have here but no assurance I could ever get them up and don't 
want to take up the back yard now that things are growing.  Wife 
wouldn't go for that.  She has been great through all of this but she 
needs her yard and gardens.

Never thought I would live to see something like this although I have 
long thought a major cyber attack, EMP event or pandemic would end life 
in the US as we know it.  They just discovered that the virus is still 
alive in cruise ship cabins three weeks after they were vacated.

On that cheery note I'll say 73 and gud DX.

Steve, QQ

On 3/30/2020 9:54 AM, HamOP wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for 
> Windows 10
>
> *From: *WB5JJJ <mailto:wb5jjj at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Monday, March 30, 2020 9:31 AM
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> *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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