Checked this morning and YS4M has confirmed our contact. That was the only QSO so far with El Salvador and it is confirmed via LoTW. That puts me at 89 confirmed DXCCs via LoTW.

I’ve noticed that the LoTW confirmations for this past weekends ARRL DX SSB contest are coming in very, very slow compared to other contests. The RTTY guys are tops with uploading (both quick and percentage of ops)  followed by the CW folks. The SSB/Phone contacts seem to have the lowest percentage uploaded with the DX stations being much less likely then US/Canadian stations. At least that is what I am seeing so far. Maybe a bunch of the DX ops for this past contest were travelling to their locations and the logs will get uploaded once they are home and rested. I hope so anyway.

In related DXCC news, on our local clubs 10m net last night, W2ML (Steve) who is an avid DXer, involved with the North Jersey DX Association, involved with the ARRL and of course a board member of our local BARA club since I’ve had my license, is now a DXCC card checker. Congratulations to Steve!! It’s of course also great for us local folks to have this available to us. So we have a local DXCC QSL card checker with W2ML and our local club provides us free sending of QSL cards to the ARRL when we hand them to our outgoing QSL manager K2UFM (Warren) who gladly takes them ever time I hand him a bunch. I guess the only thing left is for them to personally come to my house, write up the QSL cards for me, deliver them to the ARRL, get incoming QSLs back from the ARRL, come back and deliver them to me and log them as received. I’m sure lucky to have a great bunch of guys that put so much time in for all of us!!!

73,
K2DSL