Hi Clayton! > I will be very interested to see what "QSL rate" you get after uploading > 16K contacts. I highly encourage others to utilize LotW for satellite > confirmations. I personally love paper and always QSL via mail but enjoy > the "instant gratification" of a Logbook of the World QSL.
I'm with you on that. I like receiving cards, don't mind sending them out, and also like LOTW. I'm doing my part to support office-supply stores for the cardstock and printer supplies, as well as my local post office. :-) > Out of roughly 1200 satellite contacts I've uploaded, I am seeing a 4% QSL > rate via Logbook of the World. Most of those are repeat contacts who > regularly upload to LotW like me. For my 11K+ satellite QSOs made from all locations, I'm seeing about 13% confirmed in LOTW. I know it helps that I'm operating from different places, but I'm putting every QSO into LOTW - even if it is the umpteenth QSO with the same station. Then I have a complete copy of my log I can access online, in addition to the spreadsheet copies that are on backups here at home and on a flash drive with me. > Just for other statistics... I have only confirmed 63 grids of the 200+ I > have confirmed on paper. And the majority of those 63 LotW confirmations > are from stations like WD9EWK or K8YSE who have gone rover. Thanks! I need to run through my log to see how many grids I have confirmed, on paper and in LOTW. I think it is near 500 now, and 134 of those are confirmed in LOTW, for my Phoenix-area activity. > My advice is to ensure your satellite names and grids (yours and theirs) > correctly match up for all contacts. It is critical for LotW satellite > confirmation. If you did any portable or rover satellite work outside your > home grid, this becomes very critical. And make sure to include your grid when you define a station location in the TQSL program! Otherwise you get confirmation for the QSO, but it is useless toward a VUCC award. Multi-grid QTHs work fine in LOTW, too. 73! Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
