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Oh boy, when I look back at all the "recent" posts here, I see they are all LoTW. Yes, I'm an eager LoTW user and I do appreciate confirmations there, and I like to report about the new ones I'm getting. Ok, enough of that, here is a long overdue DX report from me.

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:

• 3D2RO 40M CW
• 3D2RO 30M CW
• 3D2RO 20M CW
• 3D2RX 30M CW
• FK8DD/M 30M CW

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!

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!

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:

Band and mode statistics:

I'm happy that I got this one confirmed on LoTW the other day. 5T0SP is #308 confirmed on LoTW only.

At first when they were on, I didn't really bother to chase them. I thought I had 5T well covered, but that was until I checked my log. Only 3 different calls worked with the last one on 6M in 2006. As it turned out, they would use LoTW. An added bonus for me since I didn't have 5T there.

Thanks a lot for the expedition and the confirmation.