My LotW account had crept up to 149 confirmations over the past couple of weeks. I also had a 3C0E QSL that was yet to be entered. This had me toying with the possibility of making a trip to Newington just to have that one QSL checked so I could finish my year-end goal of 150 countries for Mixed DXCC.
Fortunately, in the past couple of days, confirmations have been pouring into my LotW account. It is as if the CQ WW DX contest logs were finally getting processed. Anyway, I was fortunate to receive two new confirmations: EL2LF in Liberia, and D64K in Comoros, bringing my LotW total up to 151. And I managed to bump over 100 countries for DXCC Phone, 20 meter and 15 meter bands as well.
This morning I put the LotW online application to the test. About 4 hours later I received a note saying they had approved the application. That’s fast!