LA8AJA's homepage » LoTW 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 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.

]]> http://la8aja.com/2012/01/17/300-on-logbook-of-the-world/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.

]]> http://la8aja.com/2011/12/15/298-on-lotw-with-yk9a/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.

]]> http://la8aja.com/2011/11/23/297-on-lotw-with-su9vb/feed/ 0 #296 on LoTW with ST0R http://la8aja.com/2011/11/12/296-on-lotw-with-st0r/ http://la8aja.com/2011/11/12/296-on-lotw-with-st0r/#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:03:13 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1032 st0r_qsl_front After I requested my ST0R card via OQRS, my contacts were uploaded to LoTW and gave me #296 on LoTW. The card came in the mail a few days later.

I have worked a little dx since my last report.

October 23rd I worked TX7M on 30M CW and JW7XM on 10M SSB. Harald was very strong here and had a very big pile-up.

October 28th I worked TX7M on 40M SSB. PJ5/SP6EQZ and 3XY1D was worked on 12M CW. TU2T was worked on 10M CW. 8R1EA was worked on 10M SSB. ZF2OE, PJ5/SP6IXF and PJ4J was worked on 12M RTTY. All three were new on RTTY.

During CQWW SSB I listened a little on the bands. Conditions were the best in many many years. I didn't bother to work much in all the noise. Breaking pile-up's is very difficult with a vertical. I did however wake up in the middle of the night on October 30th. I checked the bands and 20M were very good. I had big signals from Hawaii and worked 4 stations. I worked 2 stations from Alaska. I also Worked C5A, E51Z, TX5A and JW5E. All had quite good signals. I worked 3XY1D on 10M CW. I worked ST2AR and A92GR on 10M SSB for 2 new ones on 10M.

On November 6th I worked WY7LL in WY on 12M SSB. PJ7NK was worked on 17M RTTY for a new one on RTTY. SU9VB was worked on 30M CW. 7Q7GM was worked on 40M CW.

]]> http://la8aja.com/2011/11/12/296-on-lotw-with-st0r/feed/ 0 #295 on LoTW with HC6EP and 13 T32C slots http://la8aja.com/2011/10/23/295-on-lotw-with-hc6ep-and-13-t32c-slots/ http://la8aja.com/2011/10/23/295-on-lotw-with-hc6ep-and-13-t32c-slots/#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:10:47 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1020 t32c_logsearch_la8aja The conditions are really good for the time being, and I have worked a few contacts lately.

I worked OA4/DJ2VO on 30M on October 11th. 

On the 14th I worked T32C on 15M CW.

On the 15th I got HC2/KF6ZWD and HR2DMR on 12M CW. HR2 was a new one on 12M. T32C was worked on 12M SSB and 17M CW. I tuned around 10M and found OA1F with a nice signal and worked him quickly. Further up in the band, HC6EP was calling and I gave him a call. It turned out that he was on LoTW and when I uploaded the log a few days later, I got #295 on LoTW.

October 18th gave me 3 new T32C slots with 17M RTTY, 20M SSB and 20M CW.

Early morning October 19th, I worked VE7SV with a nice and strong signal on 30M CW. He had a pile-up from Europe, but was easily worked. T32C was worked on 10M CW.

E51NOU was worked on 12M CW October 20th. I tried calling him the day before, but I couldn't break the pile-up. 3XY1D was worked on 30M CW.

On October 21st I worked T32C on 30M RTTY and 17M SSB. 4O3A was worked on 12M cw for a new one on 12M.

I now have 13 slots with T32C. Way more than expected. They have been there so long that the pile-up's are small and pretty easy to crack.

]]> http://la8aja.com/2011/10/23/295-on-lotw-with-hc6ep-and-13-t32c-slots/feed/ 0 JW8AJA update http://la8aja.com/2011/09/19/jw8aja-update/ http://la8aja.com/2011/09/19/jw8aja-update/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:21:24 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1001 Hi all. I'm back from Svalbard. I have uploaded the log to LoTW and I've updated the logsearch here. I worked a little over 1100 contacts this time. This wasn't an expedition only trip, but I did manage to put in a few hours of operating.

]]> http://la8aja.com/2011/09/19/jw8aja-update/feed/ 0 #293 and #294 on LoTW with UA2FL and VU4PB http://la8aja.com/2011/08/24/293-and-294-on-lotw-with-ua2fl-and-vu4pb/ http://la8aja.com/2011/08/24/293-and-294-on-lotw-with-ua2fl-and-vu4pb/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:20:58 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=969 lotw-logo-c.jpg I got these two confirmations last week. I knew VU4PB eventually would come on LoTW. I didn't expect UA2FL to be a new one on LoTW though. Those unexpected ones are always nice to get. 6 to go for my LoTW goal of 300. Other interesting confirmations lately has been 5Z4/UA4WHX, FP/VE9MY and R1MVA. Thanks once again to all LoTW users. Keep 'em coming.

]]> http://la8aja.com/2011/08/24/293-and-294-on-lotw-with-ua2fl-and-vu4pb/feed/ 0 #292 on LoTW with VP6BR http://la8aja.com/2011/08/17/292-on-lotw-with-vp6br/ http://la8aja.com/2011/08/17/292-on-lotw-with-vp6br/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:44:24 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=965 vp6br_qsl What a nice surprise this was. VP6BR Jukka (OH2BR) was on Pitcairn back in 2000. He stayed there for 3 month celebrating his 40 year hamradio career. Jukka is the only station I have worked from Pitcairn and I worked him from 30M-10M. Thank you very much Jukka. That was #292 on LoTW. Only 8 more to go for 300. 

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