QSO Distributions (as of 16-Jan-2008)

The K3PP log currently contains 45,489 QSOs with 18,923 stations!

The breakdowns are illustrated below. Click on the graphs for the full-size versions.

You can very clearly see the drought I had over the past several years. I made some progress on a rebound in 2007, but I hope to make 2008 another good year. Now in a sunspot minimum, I doubt I can replicate the 1999-2002 glory years, but I will do much better than 2003-2007!

I'm a decent CW operator, but not good enough to run in the big contests. I can run wel in phone contests and running is how you accumulate lots of QSOs. The result is that I have many more phone QSOs than CW. I do RTTY sporadically, but I hope to do more RTTY and other digital modes in the future. I've improved my equipment to be more effective at the difital modes.

As a contester, it should come as no surprise that the overwhelming majority of my QSOs are in the "contest bands" of 160m, 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m, and 10m. I played a little with 60m when it was first made available, but I don't do much more than listen there now. I do want to do more, but I need more time to tinker there and hopefully build a tuned dipole for the band.

This is an interesting graph that shows the number of QSOs I've had with the twenty most popular DXCC entities over the years. It gives you a good perspective on contest activity from these locations. Here in the northeastern US, we can run Europeans at a blazing pace during contests. That's what makes it so much fun to do contesting from this part of the world! Many in this part of the country have difficulty getting through to Japan. Compared to Europe, we do, but there zillions of our JA friends get on for the big DX contests and make it a lot easier for us. I know I've worked lots of JA's, but even I was surprised to see them at #3 on my list! Arigatou!

DXCC Status

These charts are also as of 16-Jan-2008. I currently have 323 DXCC entities worked out of the 338 available. I have confirmed 292 of them so far. I haven't verified anything with the ARRL since I got my original DXCC as N3BDA in the mid 1990s. I'll wait until I have enough for 5-Band DXCC and then make the trip to Newington. By the way, if you ever get the chance to visit ARRL headquarters, by all means go! It's a fabulous place and everyone is warm and helpful.

Here are the 15 remaining entities I need to work and my current breakdown for each band and each mode: