[SADXA] CY9C OQRS now open

[Jim Wysocki]

Wes, I believe you can pick and choose among the QSOs.  Don't make a 
selection regarding any particular QSO and when you go to confirm the 
rest of them on the next screen it shouldn't be there.  Still it seems 
like a moot point to me.  Since confirmation of the first QSO is $4.50 
and all of the rest of them are free, just check them all even if it 
means duplicating the confirmation of the 2016 QSOs.  All it means is 
there will be extra QSO lines on the QSL card, or duplicate LotW 
confirmation records.

I'm getting five new band fills this time around, so that's only 50 
cents per QSO.  Throw in the other five confirmations from 2016 and 
they're a quarter a piece.  Everyone has their own threshold of 
tolerance, but for me OQRS is economically more viable than QSL cards 
and an SASE. As long as the LotW confirmations show up, I don't even 
care if a card ever arrives or not.

On your other topic, even FT8 didn't help them over here on 15m and 
above and on 160.  With the Catalinas and Rincons being between me and 
St. Paul island, the mountains knocked down the signals to the point 
where CW was useless and even FT8 wasn't reliable enough copy to make 
QSOs on some bands.  The only way I got them on 80 was via FT8.  Their 
CW signal on that band was buried deeply enough into the QRN as to make 
it unreadable.  On 10, 12, 15, or 160 neither their signals nor their 
pileups were detectable on any mode.  On 80, 40, and 30, only FT8 got 
deep enough into the noise to pull out a CY9 signal at this QTH.  So my 
opinion is to forget about tradition and bring on more FT8 DXpeditions.

73,  Jim  W9FI

On 8/8/2019 12:13 PM, Wes wrote:
> Their records aren't very good.  Other than two recent FT8 QSOs, that 
> I won't worry about confirming, my 11 Qs from 2016 are all confirmed, 
> yet OQRS wants me to apply again.
>
> Additionally, $4.50 is above normal and I see they are taking 
> advantage of the recent change to OQRS that removed the requirement 
> that they needed to offer free bureau cards.
>
> Hope they had fun on their FT8 expedition.
>
> Wes  N7WS
>
>
> On 8/8/2019 11:02 AM, Jim Wysocki wrote:
>> The CY9C crew has ceased operations and now has their Online QSL 
>> Request Service open at ClubLog. Here's the link to where you can 
>> check on whether or not you're in their log and if so, to order QSL 
>> cards and (hopefully) early LotW confirmations as well.
>>
>> https://clublog.org/charts/?c=CY9C
>>
>> 73,  Jim  W9FI 
>
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