I was travelling on business this week and on Thursday noticed I was about 15 QSLs short of reaching 20,000 on LoTW (Logbook Of The World). This morning I looked and I’m currently showing 20,009 QSLs.
With about 33,819 QSOs, that’s just a LoTW QSL rate of 59%. It doesn’t count the hundreds of paper QSLs I have, though there would be some overlap for the same contacts.
Looking by mode for just LoTW QSLs I show the following:
| Mode | QSL % |
|---|---|
| RTTY | 64 |
| SSB | 21 |
| CW | 14 |
| PSK31 | 0.5 |
| PSK125 | 0.4 |
| FM | 0.05 |
| SSTV | 0.05 |
Looking by band for LoTW QSLs:
| Band | QSL % |
|---|---|
| 20M | 43 |
| 40M | 23 |
| 80M | 19 |
| 15M | 10 |
| 10M | 4 |
| 6M | 0.3 |
| 2M | 0.2 |
| 17M | 0.2 |
| 12M | 0.1 |
| 30M | 0.1 |
| 70CM | 0.1 |
Thanks to all those operators, about 4620 unique callsigns, that made the QSOs and followed them up with LoTW QSLs.
73,
K2DSL