New one...

By Klaus M. - Image (Map) made by Klaus M. (Mikmaq),
Germany, CC BY-SA 2.5,
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Difficult, but on the other hand easy. I've been listening for CY9C through the week but was only able to hear them last Sunday on 17m for 5 minutes before their signal faded into the noise. Asking via fb some neighbour stations what the best time was to make the contact. PA4O Peter did work them at 17 UTC on 20m. So this Wednesday I tried but viewing the DX cluster they were only on 12/10/6m at that time.  I saw a lot of south European spots of them at Thursday around 17 UTC and decided to listen only to find a almost dead band and noise. Very frustrating. But I wanted to work them so patience is required, I have the experience things can change within a minute and you can't work them if you're not listening. And indeed they came up just readable, I made one call in which he heard me as PA4BAS but it was quiet and I managed to correct it to PE4BAS. New one in the log. 2 minutes later the signal faded and I did not hear them anymore. Later in the evening I could just decode them on 30m RTTY. But the pile-up was huge so after 2 calls I decided to quit trying.

I wonder why CY9 St.Paul Island has the DXCC status? There are at least two other St.Paul islands which are much more remote. I see this contact as just another new DXCC and not really a new country as this Island belongs to Canada and is near to Nova Scotia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul_Island_(Nova_Scotia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Paul_Island_(Alaska)
http://bit.ly/2bnTRr1 (Ile Saint Paul, Indian Ocean)

Online CY9C log: https://secure.clublog.org/charts/?c=CY9C#r