[WVDXA] LOTW

[Philip M. Roberts]

I do not use outgoing, never have. I use direct or LoTW. Run abt 10% on LoTW.

Phil  Ultra Violet




At 10:35 PM 4/1/2007, you wrote:
>Garry and others,
>Just a survey to determine how much you guys use the outgoing QSL 
>bureau through ARRL.
>
>Approximately how many cards would you say you send in a year's 
>time?  Either by number or weight.
>
>How many times have you used the ARRL outgoing QSL bureau in the 
>past 12 months?
>
>Has LOTW had an impact on how many QSLs you send out through the bureau?
>
>BTW, my QSL/QSO rate on LOTW is currently at 11.84%, a little above 
>the average but certainly not all that great.
>
>Tnx for your input on the survey es 73,
>Hal W8HC
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: W8OI at aol.com
>To: wvdxa at wvdxa.org
>Sent: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 9:08 PM
>Subject: Re: [WVDXA] LOTW
>
>Thanks, Clark.
>
>My procedure is to wait at least three weeks after a QSO before 
>sending a card in the mail (exceptions for new countries) to see if 
>I get a LOTW match.  Guess I'll keep that plan going.  I have been 
>somewhat disappointed by LOTW, however.  Don't get me wrong - I'm 
>glad LOTW is around (even one out of 100 would be better than going 
>the postage/green stamp route for all), but I felt that by now it 
>would be getting a larger percentage of matches.  To me it seems 
>(totally unscientifically) that the rate of DX involvement is pretty 
>low or pretty slow.  Worse, involvement from outside the US doesn't 
>seem to be improving in my universe.
>Not griping.  Just wondering how my experience fits in with others.
>
>Garry
>
>In a message dated 4/1/2007 8:23:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>w8tn at ntelos.net writes:
>Garry,
>
>      Yep, it's you.
>
>      You just ain't workin' folks that use LoTW.  That's the name 
> of that tune.
>
>      Here is a posting from the DX-list reflector about the current 
> usage of LoTW:
>
>>I took a snapshot over the weekend of slightly over
>>200,000 new QSOs that came in.  Here are my stats:
>>
>>Date     Total QSO's       Total QSL Records
>>3/30     125,103,815          8,131,451
>>
>>4/1      125,310,347          8,148,561
>>
>>diff         206,532             17,110
>>
>>So for this time period, the QSL rate for these
>>new QSO's is 8.28%  Obviously, long-term these QSO's
>>will be matched at a much higher rate.  Still, this
>>8 percent number seems low to me.
>>
>>I'm thinking this isn't enough data to predict where
>>the LOTW overall QSL rate is headed.  Obviously there
>>are a lot of factors like RTTY Contest weekends etc.
>>I thought this weekend was a good choice for a study,
>>since there is no major contest going on.
>>
>>I did notice that Friday was a particularly bad day for QSL matches,
>>and that it got progressively better over the weekend.
>>
>>Tim K6GEP
>
>      However, the vast majority of those QSO's/QSL's are from U.S. 
> stations.  You are probably just working DX.
>
>
>Clark, W8TN
>Just Mailed my Honor Roll Submission on Saturday
>
>
>At 07:49 PM 4/1/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>>Is it just me or is something happening that's bigger than 
>>that?  Of the 42 DX QSOs I've had since returning from Florida in 
>>mid-March, not one has yet been a match on LOTW.  I upload/download 
>>to LOTW every day.
>>
>>For a while I thought I was getting a match on about one out of ten 
>>or fifteen.
>>
>>Garry, W8OI
>
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