[Dx-qsl] users of LOTW

[Ron]

>Boy!, thats a lot of logs stuff. I have boxes and boxes of handwritten 
>stuff going back many years...even 3Y0PI and VP8SSI are hand written. KA6V 
>and AA6BB managed many stations that I took on upon their death. I started 
>counting one day each log entry in 1 box I had and when I got to 21,000 I 
>quit. I would venture to guess that a total of log entries are over 
>600,000 for all the stations I have logs for. I know you wont see them on 
>LOTW, I just do not have the time and the will to type that many....not at 
>my age :-))


Ron

>My electronic logs now go back 21 years, since my moving to this location,
>and I had to go back and manually enter about 12 years of those into the
>computer.  Right now I am at 21,526 QSOs and have probably missed some that
>were on paper during contests.  I would hope that the majority of the people
>1522 people on this list eventually do get on LOTW, but hmmmmmm - these are
>the ones who apparently are good QSLers anyway - or they wouldnt have the
>cards to do so.
>
>It would be interesting to go thru the whole DXCC Challenge list, and see
>how the rest of them do as far as LOTW, but thats a lot of work and I am not
>typing in over 1500 calls just to find out.  It appears, from just a quck
>eyeball scan, that the percentages, DX to Stateside, are about 50/50, so if
>those 761 DX stations were all on LOTW, we should be able to fill in a lot
>of mode/band confirmations, without the huge expense.  Of course, many, like
>me, are setting here with enough cards/contacts to get on the list, and just
>havent got all the cards sent in yet.  With my 2057 I could be number 288 on
>the list, unless of course you all send yours in and put me futher down the
>line.  HI
>
>What does all this mean?  Well, mostly its just me trying to encourage
>everyone to climb on board.  If your reading this, it means you have access
>to a computer, your are a DXer, and would save money .  After all, its free
>to post logs, and no ARRL membership is required.  Do your buddy a favor,
>LOTW em.
>
>Danny
>
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