[WVDXA] VQ9JC operation

[Claryco at aol.com]

I'll be returning to Diego Garcia in early April for another four-month tour 
and will resume operating as VQ9JC.
 
Operating time tends to run about 85% CW, 10% SSB, and 5% digital and is on 
10-80 meters. I must take a boat from my ship (where I am one of the few 
remaining Radio Officers) to the island where the ham shack is located and usually 
cannot be QRV before 1200Z. (Local time is GMT +6 all year.) In order to be on 
the boat back to the ship, I must QRT by 1635Z on Sundays through Thursday, 
and by 1735Z on Fridays and Saturdays, although I will occasionally stay 
overnight to work early morning DX.
 
QSLs go to ND9M (ex-WB9IHH); either buro or direct is OK. My XYL will forward 
direct requests to me every three weeks or so, but mail typically takes about 
two weeks to get to the island once she mails it.
 
As for direct QSL requests, I'm continually surprised to see the number of 
invalid IRCs come through. A few are the older style that expired at the end of 
2006, but the majority of them are invalid because they were not stamped by 
the issuing post office.
 
I wouldn't mind "eating" two or three, but I've received literally dozens so 
far this year. All QSL requests are answered of course, but requests that come 
with invalid IRCs will be answered via the buro.
 
CU in the pileups!
 
73 for now,
 
Jim, VQ9JC / ND9M
Radio Electronics Officer (REO)
M/V Sgt William R Button
Military Sealift Command (MSC)
Diego Garcia, BIOT



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