All of my HF
activity is now QRP CW – and almost all of that is in contests.
Recently, I began wondering which of the contests/events I enjoy had
the highest Logbook of the World QSL rates.
I miss physical QSL
cards, but the LotW has been useful for me. At virtually no cost, my
DXCC total has gone up by about 70 countries and I qualified for WAS-
QRP/CW. Not that LotW is without fault – insert your personal
peeve here – but even in the present form, it's better than the
current alternatives.
The table below
tabulates my event results for all of 2014. I guessed that my 'big'
contests like the CW Open and the Texas QSO Party would have a high
rate of confirmations.
That was true, but,
I was surprised by some of the small events and by the low percentage
for the CW Mini-Test at 1900.
Interesting.
(At this writing, my
overall LotW QSL percentage for all of my QSOs since my first
Novice contact is around 29%)
cln – Nick
WB5BKL
