The confirmed perecentage for Logbook of the World will go up in time, as more amateurs use it.
I'm actually surprised at my own numbers. As of tonight my LoTW hit rate is 14.82%, not including the last 5 QSOs I made today. I'd say the majority of the LoTW hits I get are post-contest in the major DX 'tests, but if I was relying on LoTW solely as a QSL method, I'd have at least mixed and SSB DXCC and probably 20m as well. From what Wayne Mills has been saying, a *major* re-write of the LoTW interface is in the works for 2006/2007 so it should become easier for all as time goes on.
As of today, there are 20,338 certificates active in the system and 13,465 individual users, and that number increases every day.
I am willing to bet that outside of first-world nations, the knowledge of LoTW's existence is cloudy at best. What would be nice is if each national society went on a major push for their own members to become participants (again, with streamlined procedures), and maybe have local portals written in the local languages.
Look at it this way, I can say a callsign, greeting, five-nine, thank you and 73 in about 4 languages besides English, but if I needed to log into a site and fill out an application in Spanish, German, Japanese or Russian it just wouldn't happen, period. I see it from the point of view of the guy for whom English isn't a daily language in Estonia, Azerbaijan or Georgia (take your pick on that one) .
Peter,
W2IRT
