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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:

Here are my band, mode and DXCC statistics:

As always, keep the confirmations coming!

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.

Wow, it has been one year with monthly posted soundclips. I don't think I'll bother this year. I don't record, or for that matter, work as much radio as I used to. Hope those of you that has been listening my soundclips has enjoyed them. Only one soundclip recorded in December, and that has been my only contact during that month. As always, enjoy.

Soundclip:

• ZK2V 40M CW – thanks for the new one on 40M

I wish everyone a Happy New Year 2012 with lots of DX in your log.

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.

Soundclips:

• LA8AJA 26 sep 2011 1713z recording made by G3TCT and was found here
• LA8AJA 05 aug 2011 2218z recording made by LZ2STO and was found here