For AD status read AG ... my mistake

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GI8HXY Norman Henderson

Have not checked into forums in a while... was looking at my sked requests today and looked up several of the call signs listed as sked requests on QRZ.. I was surprised to find that there was many of them not listed there... bootleggers ??? anyone have an answer ?

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NY4FD George Porth

Hi George,

You didn’t say whether you were looking up US/Canadian calls or other calls on QRZ.COM. The listing of US/Canadian calls is complete because both the FCC and the RAC provide daily updates of their databases which sites like QRZ.COM and WM7D.NET can download and use to update their own databases. However, I am not aware of any other countries that provide such information. Thus, stations outside of the US and Canada will only be listed if the stations have logged on and entered the information themselves.

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73, Rich - W3ZJ

Tnx fer reply Rich... well some were DX and some were U.S.
SV9GPV F12921

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NY4FD George Porth

Whoops pressed wrong key. some more .. F12921 RZ3AV
Checked these, not on Qrz... all the US calls were good...sorry if I misled anyone not intended...
tnx fer help.. 73 George

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NY4FD George Porth

Experience of this "non-power" user: 60 replies for 189 sent ... about 32%. I don't use LoTW because it is a huge burden for a manual log operation like mine. It took a year and a few reminders to finally make eDX from my very modest station.

I've reminded a few stations by email to pse QSL ... success rate on that is 1 in about 10. If they don't reply the first time, not likely they'll reply a second time.

In a happy note, several stations additioanlly replied with paper QSLs, to which I glady reply on paper via buro or direct.

I see many large in-boxes of some users and would greatly appreciate the effort to clear those up. Thanks and 73, ke4pt

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KE4PT Kai Siwiak

Hi, gentlemen.
Only for RA3CQ
(I have and had many other calls -
www.ra3cq.com, www.r1mvi, www.ru3awc)
16577 uploaded
1930 confirmed (AG+NON AG)

Slightly more that 10%.
What seeems to be normal (considering the other calls as well).

One of the reasons amateurs do not upload there logs is than many of us think this is payable.
So...I guess eQSL (and LoTW) need more advertising.

73! Igor RA3CQ

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RA3CQ Igor Ustimenko

To have more reply: go to www.qrz.com, find idicative and mail, and mail them! The most of them don't know E-qsl. 73 from Fatima - Portugal.

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CT2IFT Sergio Oliveira

I know this is an old topic but I think it might help if you would change the text on the AG page to reflect this new lead time of days instead of weeks. I know I hesitated sending in a copy of my license because I didn't want to wait "weeks" as it says. I was very happy to get my AG the next day.

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WV0T Philip Leonard

Well... My "ratio" is 24% on eQsl and 14% on LoTW.
But must say that on LoTW I have more DXCC confirmed.

Some "old-fassion" guys will never use eQsl or LoTW becouse they like to see paper cards.
Well also I have photo album with confirmed DXCC and I also use eQSL and LoTW. So it is
all in the head of HAM operators.

Vy 73 es HNY 2007

de Alex, S50DX

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Vy 73 de Alex, S50DX

Since I started with eQSL (shortly after it was founded) I uploaded some 19500 qso's (ALL contacts are automatically uploaded on a daily basis these days). The archive contains 2417 confirmations = just over 12 %. I have 120 (AG) countries confirmed on eQSL.

Compared to LotW there I have just over 1700 confirmations for 130 countries based on the same uploads.

I only send paper QSL's when I receive one so the paper QSL rate is not relevant.

I generally do not respond to sked requests - too much work to organise that plus a couple of disappointments with people not turning up. Apart from that conditions can foul things and the fun is in the chance encounter! I am frequently spotted on clusters as I work both phone and CW on many bands so work me when you hear me! Only in contests I do the "59 thanks" routine so in a QSO I always try to give a fair report and as a minimum exchange names and QTH.

Henk - VK2GWK
http://vk2gwk.com

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VK2GWK Henk Tobbe

Looking through my eQSL stats, I have:

366 uploaded logs
156 archived eQSLs received

for a total of 42.6% <-- nearly half!

Here's what I've noticed though... QSOs on digital modes (PSK/MFSK, and to some degree, RTTY) are much more likely to generate an eQSL than phone or CW. I can only assume this is because the digital mode users typically have a computer right at their station and are well-versed in using the web etc., or at least more willing to do so.

Granted, I've only been doing this since the summer, but that time has been almost exclusively digital operation and the eQSL response has been awesome.

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CG3OIJ P. Darin Cowan

I have also checked and I have also found that digital gets a much hgher return rate

SSB 14.9%
Digital 27.2%

Overall 25.4%

Sounds like I have a good %

Compared to LOTW of only 6% and many of those are duplicates of e-qsl but some are new so it adds to the overall.

Being a traveller and only spending a few years in each country and due to language issues it is much easier and I am not normally a member of the Bureau

Good DX to all and catch u on the bands.

Andy
ES2DY and VK2DYI

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ES2DY Andrew Tokely

100 % eQSL


Bun, YB0BUW

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YB0BUW BUN KHOI TJHING

My response is only about 10 percent, it seems that everyone wants your qsl but don't bother to send one back, even with the fact that it's free. Oh well 10 percent is better than nothing.
Jim n9egm

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N9EGM JAMES R. HAMANN

Hi,

We need to consider time as a factor. Some people do not have their whole log in electronic form, and have hence not uploaded it. My return rates from 10 years ago are much lower than from 5 years ago. I copied the number of monthly EQSLs sent / received from the Outbox / Archive eqsl.cc pages and put them straight into Excel. Peak monthly return rates exceed 30%, although recent (and not so recent) ones are less than 10% All will improve over time as more stations discover EQSL and submit their logs, although there's a lower chance I'll fill in the blanks for the older QSOs as people are less likely to have them typed up. Picture here:

http://www.g0mtn.freeserve.co.uk/eqsl.gif

When time allows I could repeat this by mode, band etc. As all of the numbers required are freely available from database queries, maybe someone should submit EQSL graph trending as a feature request. Is there some public domain code already written that could be utilised ?

99% of my own recent operation is from HF mixed mode contesting, by the way.

73, Lee G0MTN

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G0MTN Lee Volante

I guess mine is avarege then, 200 out 68 back, It is frustrating when waiting for 1 country for an award to then not receive a return card or be ignored, i've only been licenced just over a year about to get my first award the e-DX, but i do get more return's with e-qsl than i have from the RSGB (British QSL Bureau) but i always mention e-qsl in a qso and say i would prefer e-qsl, if the other person prefers another method then i go with their wishes

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M3MVB steve norman

As a recent user, I found the AG process to be instant thru the LOTW method. Since then I firstly answered the 11K+ eQSLs that were waiting. Then I have uploaded the rest of my logbook, split into ADIF files by year to keep the size down. So far I have managed to upload over 99K but there is another 150K QSO's that have been uploaded (Maybe??) but do not show up in my totals yet. They were uploaded about 4 days ago so expected it would not have taken this long.... I waiting for the upload page and the start times showed and all the file #;s assigned were there but the stop times were never reached (the page expires in 12 hours). Some of the years that did load are incomplete - maybe only logs for 3 months of that year when I know there should have been many more. Is the system slow or plugged up, should I resubmit? Results - so far out of the ~100K QSOs in the system, I have almost 13K confirmed and about 130 countries. By comparison, LOTW has all of my 250K QSO's showing with 20K matches already and over 200 countries.

73 Don
VE6JY

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VE6JY Don Moman

I guess this is as good of a topic to post this under as any.

Inorder to comply with the e-QSL guide lines I have, as of now, only three separate AG approved accounts K0ARY, K0ARY/VP9 and VP9/K0ARY.

I am continually having to reject e-QSL contacts because they are listed under the wrong call sign. For some reason most operators think that all countries are signatures to the "CEPT" treaty and the country prefix has to be in front of the station call sign. The Bermuda Amateur Radio Station Licence issued me designates my station licence as K0ARY/VP9 for my operation while in Bermuda, not VP9/K0ARY. All of my regular day to day contacts are made with this call sign. Because of the computerized contest logging programs being used during contests I use the VP9/K0ARY call sign only during contests. Even though I have not used my home call K0ARY for over 10 years, I still receive e-QSL's addressed to this callsign even though the contact was made with K0ARY/VP9 or VP9/K0ARY.

If you want the e-QSL confirmation please use the call sign of the station worked in the format he/she used during the QSO.

73,
Bruce, KØARY/VP9

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K0ARY/VP9 Bruce B Quayle Jr

I have Sent 79 eqsl and Recieved 57 Back and 31 AG countries, all on SSB most for 20m, Each qso I have, I check the call on eqsl if Ag, check inbox, loads of waiting cards put on list to check in a month, then I may send one, I have had 20 new Ag by simply asking during a qso please Eqsl and have had 100% sent. Some have even arrived less than 5 minutes after the qso. I am lucky to be online when on air to check the call on eqsl.

73e Neil G7PGZ

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G7PGZ Neil Allchin