How appropriate, on the first day of winter, for a non-fan of cold weather, snow & ice, that I should reach QSO #10,000 in my logbook? My small contribution to the one billion QSOs entered into LotW as of 12/19.
My thanks to Carlos, TI2CC, in Costa Rica (a fellow LotW user, I might add), for being my 10,000th QSO on 21 December 2018 at 16:04:30 UTC (15 Meter FT8).
HRD Logbook Entry #10,000 for TI2CC, Carlos in Costa Rica
And the actual contact itself!
PS: Contact was made with 25 watts into an inverted L, up about 60 feet, resonant on 160-meters. LotW has 10,064 Qs in it (I must have made changes to 64 entries, since you can’t delete your mistakes), and QRZ has 9,768 (I have NO idea why it is lower as it should match exactly).
PPS: 69.6% of my LotW entries have been confirmed. That is almost unbelievable, so thanks to all the hams that upload to LotW. And for the record 53.0% of the QRZ logbook contacts have been confirmed.
PPPS: For the record, it is 58 degrees F, very windy, and raining like mad today — more like fall than winter. But as they say, “Winter is coming”
