LA8AJA's homepage http://la8aja.com CW, DX'ing, HF/VHF, Contesting, DXPeditions Mon, 06 May 2013 06:08:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 #314 on LoTW with 3C0E http://la8aja.com/2013/05/06/314-on-lotw-with-3c0e/ http://la8aja.com/2013/05/06/314-on-lotw-with-3c0e/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 06:08:45 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1225 3c0e_qsl This was a surprise that I didn't expect. I only have 3 qsoes with Annobon 3C0 and I worked 3C0E on 10M CW last year. I see now on the webpage that LoTW would be uploaded after a while. I had forgotten about that. Anyway, it was a nice one to get on LoTW. Thanks a lot to the expedition and the manager for #314 on LoTW.

Other confirmations are 3C6A (same team as 3C0E) and 3D2C.

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]]> http://la8aja.com/2013/05/01/site-update/feed/ 0 #313 on LoTW with T46RRC http://la8aja.com/2013/04/27/313-on-lotw-with-t46rrc/ http://la8aja.com/2013/04/27/313-on-lotw-with-t46rrc/#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:55:27 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1224 t46rrc A few weeks back, I got #313 on LoTW with T46RRC. It was no big surprise as they said on their wegpage that they would upload the log. Thanks a lot for confirming Cuba on LoTW. That was also #300 on CW on LoTW. You can see the qslcard which I got in the mail a few days.

]]> http://la8aja.com/2013/04/27/313-on-lotw-with-t46rrc/feed/ 0 Third DX report in 2013 http://la8aja.com/2013/04/21/third-dx-report-in-2013/ http://la8aja.com/2013/04/21/third-dx-report-in-2013/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:24:18 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1210 tx5k_la8aja Here is my long overdue third dx report in 2013. These contacts are all from last month.

The big expedition of March was TX5K Clipperton. Many people worked them as a new one. I had FO0AAA from back in 2000, so I wasn't too stressed about getting them in the log.

I managed 7 HF slots with TX5K. 40/30/20/15/12 CW, 40M SSB and 30M RTTY.

I worked J5UAP on 17M CW on March 1st and 30M CW on March 9th.

H44G was worked on 20M CW on March 9th and 17M CW on March 10th.Both were new bandcountries.

9X0NH was worked on March 11th on 17M CW for a new one on 17M.

9M4SLL Spratly was worked on 17M CW on March 13th.

T88TF was worked on 30M CW on March 13th.

On March 14th I worked Fred KH7Y on 15M CW, H44G on 12M CW and 9K2F AS118 on 15M SSB for a new iota. HR2/NP3J, VR2CM and PJ2/PA0VDV was worked on 12M CW.

On March 22nd I worked ZP6CW, FS/UA4CC, ZF2LC and 4O7TC on 30M CW.

On March 24th I worked OA1F on 40M CW and XR0YG on 30M CW. TK0INT EU100 was worked on 30M CW for a new iota.

On March 27th, I worked TK2INT EU164 on 17M CW for a new iota. J5UAP was worked on 20M CW for a new one on 20M.

Soundclips:

]]> http://la8aja.com/2013/04/21/third-dx-report-in-2013/feed/ 0 #311 and #312 on LoTW with H44KW and 3D2RX http://la8aja.com/2013/03/13/311-and-312-on-lotw-with-h44kw-and-3d2rx/ http://la8aja.com/2013/03/13/311-and-312-on-lotw-with-h44kw-and-3d2rx/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:49:55 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1190 lotw-logo-c.jpg These two confirmations didn't come as a big surprise. I hunted H44KW especially for the LoTW upload. I was lucky to get them on one slot, and the log was uploaded a few days later for #311 on LoTW.

3D2RX was also expected after their trip to Rotuma. This was #312 on LoTW.

I have at least one more new LoTW confirmation that will come as soon as they upload the log. Other than that, the next will probably be a surprise. Other nice confirmations lately are 9U4U, 3D2RO, VP9I, V63ZM, 9Y4/DL7VOG, 5X8C and TZ6BB.

]]> http://la8aja.com/2013/03/13/311-and-312-on-lotw-with-h44kw-and-3d2rx/feed/ 0 Second DX report in 2013 http://la8aja.com/2013/03/10/second-dx-report-in-2013/ http://la8aja.com/2013/03/10/second-dx-report-in-2013/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:57:05 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1198 cuba2013_rrc Here is my second DX report this year. This one is also from February. 

On February 15th, I worked 6W/HA0NAR on 15M CW. A few hours later, I managed a new IOTA with T47RRC on 17M CW from IOTA NA-086. T47RRC is one of the calls used by the Russian Robinson Club and they are celebrating their 20th year anniversary. Take a look at their webpage here. 5X8C and T47RRC was worked on 30M CW for the last qsoes that day.

February 16th was another good DX day. I started out working V63ZM on 17M CW, 30M CW and 40M. 17M and 40M were new bandcountries. 5X8C was worked on 17M and 12M CW and 30M RTTY. TZ6BB was worked on 12M and 30M CW, 30M was a new one. 9U4U was worked on 30M CW.

February 17th gave me T46RRC on 20M SSB from IOTA NA-204. This was yet another new IOTA. 9U4U was worked on 17M CW and was a new one on 17M since 9U5CW never got approved.

February 18th gave me T46RRC and 9U4U on 40M CW. 9U was new on 40M.

February 26th gave me H44KW on 30M CW for a new one on 30M.

February 27th gave me XT2TT on 30M CW.

March 2nd gave me XT2TT on 15M CW for a new one on 15M.

Lot's of soundclips below for your enjoyment!

Soundclips:

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It had to be the prospect of a new one on LoTW for me to make my first contact this year. Besides, I don't think I missed much during January since I didn't work anything at all that month.

N7OU and W7YAQ was active from Rotuma in February and I was able to work them both. I worked 3D2RO (N7OU) on 40M and 30M CW on February 09th. Both were new on those bands. On February 10th, I worked 3D2RO on 20M CW and 3D2RX (W7YAQ) on 30M CW. I also worked FK8DD/M on 30M CW with a good signal. Listen to the soundclips below.

Soundclips:

]]> http://la8aja.com/2013/03/03/first-dx-report-in-2013/feed/ 0 #310 on LoTW with JD1BLY http://la8aja.com/2013/02/17/310-on-lotw-with-jd1bly/ http://la8aja.com/2013/02/17/310-on-lotw-with-jd1bly/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:32:35 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1186 jd1bly Early this week I got a nice surprise on LoTW. JD1BLY from Ogasawara uploaded his log to LoTW. I only have 5 contacts with Ogasawara, so it was nice to get this one confirmed on LoTW. That was #310 on LoTW for me. Thank you very much!

]]> http://la8aja.com/2013/02/17/310-on-lotw-with-jd1bly/feed/ 0 #309 on LoTW with FK8DD http://la8aja.com/2013/02/02/309-on-lotw-with-fk8dd/ http://la8aja.com/2013/02/02/309-on-lotw-with-fk8dd/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2013 06:50:11 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1165 new_caledonia_fk New Caledonia is a pretty rare country to work for me with only 6 contacts logged. I also missed when G3TXF was there. Luckily late last year, I noticed FK8DD was active on 20M CW. He was also an LoTW user. Since I needed FK on LoTW, I checked out the signal. It wasn't too bad here at my qth, so I started chasing him. Unfortunately, I could not make myself heard. Luckily the signal improved and peaked a bit more which made it possible to work him, A few weeks later, mostly due to LoTW slowdown issues, I got the qso confirmed on LoTW for #309 on LoTW. Thank you very much Sam!

]]> http://la8aja.com/2013/02/02/309-on-lotw-with-fk8dd/feed/ 2 JW8AJA LoTW statistics http://la8aja.com/2013/01/21/jw8aja-lotw-statistics-2/ http://la8aja.com/2013/01/21/jw8aja-lotw-statistics-2/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:30:30 +0000 la8aja http://la8aja.com/?p=1157 And here are my stats for my JW8AJA call. These stats are from December 31st 2012. I've got 85 dxcc's and 49 states confirmed on LoTW from my 4 trips to JW. If we look at the percentage, very few changes has taken places since last time I reported this. I've only gotten 5 more qsoes confirmed. I guess I need another trip to get WAS or DXCC confirmed. I still miss Delaware on LoTW.

Yearly statistics:

Year # QSO'es # Confirmed %
2002 3652 873 23.90%
2006 1521 540 35.50%
2011 2521 1185 45.70%
Total 7766 2598 33.45%

Band and mode statistics: jw8aja_lotw_stats_2012

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