Early last year I finally got around to uploading satellite contacts (also following the guidelines at http://www.arrl.org/files/file/LoTW%20Instructions/N5JB.pdf) and got these results: You have 4,675 QSO records You have 135 QSL records
Although I always log the first contact with a station, I do not log many duplicate contacts with the same station in the same grid square... but I was hoping to get a lot more QSLs than that! 3% seems to be the going rate. I think paper QSLs are going to be with us for a long time--besides, I like the records for posterity. Having a few choice QSLs hanging on the wall is a whole lot more engaging to grandchildren than sending them a link with an ap for their Iphone to see your LoTW records :-)
73, Jerry, K5OE
Jerry,
You are right paper QSLs will be around for a while. LOTW will pick up quickly now that it is applicable. My HF QSL rate has gone from < 10 % to close to a little over 40% on LOTW over the last 3 years.
73, Joe kk0sd
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of K5OE Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 1:42 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: VUCC & LoTW
Early last year I finally got around to uploading satellite contacts (also following the guidelines at http://www.arrl.org/files/file/LoTW%20Instructions/N5JB.pdf) and got these results: You have 4,675 QSO records You have 135 QSL records
Although I always log the first contact with a station, I do not log many duplicate contacts with the same station in the same grid square... but I was hoping to get a lot more QSLs than that! 3% seems to be the going rate. I think paper QSLs are going to be with us for a long time--besides, I like the records for posterity. Having a few choice QSLs hanging on the wall is a whole lot more engaging to grandchildren than sending them a link with an ap for their Iphone to see your LoTW records :-)
73, Jerry, K5OE
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On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 14:42 -0500, K5OE wrote:
73, Jerry, K5OE
Hi Jerry, I built a couple of your Handi-tenna three-element yagis for 70cm, one for myself when I was getting into satellites first and a couple for other people. They work great and it's a nice repeatable design, guaranteed to work if you build it right. I've had QSOs through AO-51, SO-50 and the ISS with mine, as well as a lot of terrestrial low-power work.
Thanks for such a simple but significant contribution to amateur satellites ;-)
Gordon MM0YEQ
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