LA8AJA's homepage http://la8aja.com CW, DX'ing, HF/VHF, Contesting, DXPeditions Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:59:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 V73NS #302 on LoTW http://la8aja.com/2012/04/24/v73ns-302-on-lotw/ http://la8aja.com/2012/04/24/v73ns-302-on-lotw/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:59:16 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1086 v73ns_qsl The other day I got a confirmation I didn't really expect, so it was a pleasant surprise. V73NS uploaded his log to LoTW and gave me #302 on LoTW. I have only 3 different stations from V7, so it's quite rare for me.

Only a few contacts worked here since last time.

April 14th I worked EJ0PL on 40M SSB from EU103. That was a new iota for me and the log has been uploaded to LoTW.

April 18th gave me a new one on CW with 3D2R on 20M CW. I missed the expedition last year, so it was nice to catch this one. This one is also quite rare for me, and the last one from Rotuma was back in 1998.

On April 21st, I worked TM1F on 40M SSB from EU095. That was a new iota as well.

On April 22nd I worked 9M0L on 40M CW. They had a nice pile-up, but I managed to work them quite easy.

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]]> http://la8aja.com/2012/04/24/v73ns-302-on-lotw/feed/ 0 9J2RI #301 on LoTW http://la8aja.com/2012/04/13/9j2ri-301-on-lotw/ http://la8aja.com/2012/04/13/9j2ri-301-on-lotw/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:27:24 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1075 zambia Time flies again. Well, I have worked a little bit since last time I wrote a post. JW8HGA was active again for a few days, so I worked him on 40M and 30M in late March. I worked 10 qsoes in the WPX ssb contest.

March 25th I worked YB8Y on 17M CW from iota OC221. That was a new iota for me.

E51M was worked on 17M CW for a new one on 17M. DU1IST was worked on 12M CW for a new one on 12M and XW3DT was worked on 10M CW for a new one on 10M, all these on March 31st.

Aprild 2nd E51M was worked on 30M RTTY on April 2nd for a new one on RTTY. 7P8PB was worked on 12M CW for a new one on 12M. 9M2/R6AF/P in AS097 was worked on 17M CW for a new iota. 9J2RI was worked on 17M CW and I got it confirmed on LoTW a few days ago for #301 on LoTW. DJ6OI/P in EU042 was worked on 30M CW for a new iota. The last interesting qso that day was with Z32AJA on 40M CW. I have only worked F6AJA and LA9AJA before with the same suffix.

E51M was worked on 20M CW April 3rd.

SU9VB was worked on 40M RTTY on April 4th and 8R1PY was worked on 30M RTTY on April 6th for a new one on 30M

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]]> http://la8aja.com/2012/04/13/9j2ri-301-on-lotw/feed/ 0 VY0HL in Zone 2 confirmed on 6M http://la8aja.com/2012/04/01/vy0hl-in-zone-2-confirmed-on-6m/ http://la8aja.com/2012/04/01/vy0hl-in-zone-2-confirmed-on-6m/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:57:57 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1073 vy0hl_qsl_6m A few weeks back a card arrived in my mailbox. It was from Canada, and a long time has passed since I last mailed a card to Canada. Turns out it was VY0HL confirming my only Zone 2 contact on 6M. The openings to that part of the world is very rare and even more rare is a station on at the right time. Thanks a lot Larry!

Listen to Larry's signal and my post about the opening here.

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FW0NAR was worked on February 6th for a new one on 30M. 3C6A was worked on February 24th for a new one on 30M. PJ7PT was worked on March 7th for a new one on 30M. ZD7XF was also worked on 30M that same day. 3C0E was worked on 10M CW on March 11th only a very short time before they went qrt. That was a new one on 10M.

I just read yesterday that an expedition to ZS8 Marion Island is being planned in early 2014. As I need this one for an all-time new, I cross my fingers for a successful expedition.

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]]> http://la8aja.com/2012/03/13/fw-3c-and-pj7-new-on-30m-3c0-new-on-10m/feed/ 0 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.

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]]> 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%

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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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