This post will wrap up my thrad on info regarding my first year on HF with some final stats.

Out of the 7.500 contacts logged, the month with the most was March 2009 with 1,599 primarily due to 5 good size contests – ARRL-DX-SSB, BARTG-RTTY, CQ-WPX-SSB, NAQP-RTTY & NA-SPRINT-RTTY.

The longest contact made so far is a PSK31 contact on 40m to Australia covering a distance of 11,608 miles based on the difference between grid locations. The 2nd longest is a 20m SSB contact to Australia. The 3rd and 4th longest contacts are to Chagos Island both via CW on 17m and 20m. Rounding out the top 5 is a RTTY contact on 20m to Mauriitus.

Since every contact is logged and stored in a database, I could run reports on virtually anything. One thing that I can’t run a database query on is a report on how much fun and excitement making the contacts has been. Al I can say is it has been an absolute blast and I can’t wait to start on my contacts for year #2. Thanks to each of the 3,676 distinct stations that provided me the 7,500 contacts!

73,
K2DSL