LA8AJA's homepage » Hamradio http://la8aja.com CW, DX'ing, HF/VHF, Contesting, DXPeditions Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:25:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2 new on CW with 4W0VB and HK0NA http://la8aja.com/2012/02/04/2-new-on-cw-with-4w0vb-and-hk0na/ http://la8aja.com/2012/02/04/2-new-on-cw-with-4w0vb-and-hk0na/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:45:27 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1060 malpelo_sa007 Finally got around to play some radio this year. First QSO in 2012 was HK0NA on 12M CW January 26st. That was a new one on CW for me followed by 4W0VB on 30M CW. Yet another new one on CW. They don't come by too often these days with 323 on CW. Two days later on January 28th, I worked VP6T on 40M CW for a new one on 40M. I also managed to work HK0NA on 40M/30M/20M/17M/15M CW, 10M SSB and 40M RTTY. PS5F was worked on 10M CW from SA-088 on Saturday, February 4th. That was a new IOTA for me.

Soundclips:

]]> http://la8aja.com/2012/02/04/2-new-on-cw-with-4w0vb-and-hk0na/feed/ 0 JW8AJA LoTW 2012 Statistics http://la8aja.com/2012/01/26/jw8aja-lotw-2012-statistics/ http://la8aja.com/2012/01/26/jw8aja-lotw-2012-statistics/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:45:33 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1057 And here are my stats for my JW8AJA call. These stats are from January 23rd 2012. I've got 85 dxcc's and 49 states confirmed on LoTW from my 4 trips to JW. Who knows if I'll be there a fifth time, but a WAS and a DXCC award would be nice!

Yearly statistics:

Year # QSO'es # Confirmed %
2002 3652 873 23.90%
2006 1521 539 35.44%
2011 2521 1181 45.55%
Total 7766 2593 33.39%

Band and mode statistics:

2012_jw8aja_lotw ]]> http://la8aja.com/2012/01/26/jw8aja-lotw-2012-statistics/feed/ 0 LoTW statistics for LA8AJA http://la8aja.com/2012/01/21/lotw-statistics-for-la8aja-3/ http://la8aja.com/2012/01/21/lotw-statistics-for-la8aja-3/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:22:39 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1055 Wow, has it been a year since I reported this last time? Time sure flies fast. Well, here are the stats. An interesting thing is that LoTW users seems to increase at a stady pace. Something that is not so good is that postage increase is almost a yearly thing too here in Norway. It's been a long time since 2$ stopped covering postage to Europe or the World. That's why I like LoTW very much.

Ok, I've updated my LoTW stats and my total confirmation is now 22% up from 18,5% last year. It's nice to see a 40% confirmation rate in 2009 and 2011 and 50% in 2010. Many of those contacts have been made in contests, so I guess that's why they are so great. The older contacts keeps increasing, though very slowly. I also passed my goal of 300 LoTW only DXCC's. Now if only I had a 160M and an 80M antenna up, I could maybe get LoTW DXCC on those bands. Only time will tell, but radio is at a downward spiral for the time being. Though I hope it will point the other way soon.

Yearly statistics:

Year # QSO'es # Confirmed %
1995 348 20 5,75% 
1996 1321 114 8,63%
1997 3100 326 10,52%
1998 1849 190 10,28%
1999 2482 350 14,10%
2000 2998 522 17,41%
2001 1685 254 15,07%
2002 585 83 14,19%
2003 466 56 12,02%
2004 44 14 31,82%
2005 41 18 43,90% 
2006 216 70 32,41%
2007 160 41 27,50%
2008 444 161 36,26%
2009 2021 817 40,43%
2010 2056 1035 50,34%
2011 1682 680 40,43%
Total 21498 4754 22,11%

 

Here are my band, mode and DXCC statistics:

la8aja_2011_lotw_stats As always, keep the confirmations coming!

]]> http://la8aja.com/2012/01/21/lotw-statistics-for-la8aja-3/feed/ 0 #300 on Logbook of The World :) http://la8aja.com/2012/01/17/300-on-logbook-of-the-world/ http://la8aja.com/2012/01/17/300-on-logbook-of-the-world/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:09:19 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1056 celebration Early this year I finally reached one of my goals of 300 LoTW only confirmations. #299 was with E51MAN from North Cook, and came in late December. A few days ago in January, #300 was finally confirmed with OA1F.

As postage has yet again risen here in Norway, direct qsling is almost way too expensive to continue. I do answer the cards I get and I do send a few of my own, but nothing like I used to several years back. I do have several thousands of cards in boxes in the closet, both for LA8AJA and JW8AJA. Rarely do I ever take them out and look at them, and I don't think I've bothered showing them to any of my friends the last 5 years or so. I have never applied for any award. As more and more people join Logbook of The World, I just hope more awards will be added to make it even more popular. Time will tell.

My next posts will show LoTW stats for both my calls.

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]]> http://la8aja.com/2012/01/14/dx-soundclips-in-december-2011/feed/ 0 Happy New Year 2012 everyone http://la8aja.com/2012/01/02/happy-new-year-2012-everyone/ http://la8aja.com/2012/01/02/happy-new-year-2012-everyone/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:56:03 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1050 fireworks I wish everyone a Happy New Year 2012 with lots of DX in your log.

]]> http://la8aja.com/2012/01/02/happy-new-year-2012-everyone/feed/ 0 LA8AJA 6M aurora soundclips from G3TCT and LZ2STO http://la8aja.com/2011/12/23/la8aja-6m-aurora-soundclips-from-g3tct-and-lz2sto/ http://la8aja.com/2011/12/23/la8aja-6m-aurora-soundclips-from-g3tct-and-lz2sto/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:10:31 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1044 While searching for my own callsign on Google, I came across a few soundclips of myself that I hadn't heard before. The one from LZ2STO is quite interesting. In that opening, I worked 4 x YU stations on aurora. It was not aurora all the way, it was an ES to aurora link active at that time.

The second one made by G3TCT, was from one of the best aurora openings I've experienced on 6M.

Listen to both of them below.

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]]> http://la8aja.com/2011/12/23/la8aja-6m-aurora-soundclips-from-g3tct-and-lz2sto/feed/ 0 #298 on LoTW with YK9A http://la8aja.com/2011/12/15/298-on-lotw-with-yk9a/ http://la8aja.com/2011/12/15/298-on-lotw-with-yk9a/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:53:52 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1042 lotw-logo-c.jpg What a nice surprise today. I got YK9A confirmed on LoTW. The contact was made back in 2001 on 20M RTTY. That makes #298 on LoTW only. Other nice confirmations has been EL2A on 10/15/20 CW, ZF2OE 12M RTTY, VP2MWG 15M CW, T32C contacts has started to show up, HQ5X 10M CW, ZK1EFD 17M CW South Cook from 2001 and lots of other contacts both LA8AJA and JW8AJA. I'll do another LoTW stats for both calls early next year.

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]]> http://la8aja.com/2011/12/05/dx-soundclips-in-november-2011/feed/ 0 #297 on LoTW with SU9VB http://la8aja.com/2011/11/23/297-on-lotw-with-su9vb/ http://la8aja.com/2011/11/23/297-on-lotw-with-su9vb/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:34:29 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1034 su9vb_qsl As I wrote in my last post, I worked SU9VB on 30M. I got him confirmed on LoTW yesterday for #297 on LoTW. I've only worked 2 contacts since my last post. OH5LID was on yet another trip. This time it was in NAC 6M and I worked him from KP40 for a new grid on 6M. E51MAN Bill from North Cook, was worked on 30M CW for a new one on 30M. Hopefully Bill will upload his log to LoTW to give me a new one there.

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