K3WWP's Yearly QRP Stats

2011 showed a dramatic pick up in solar activity and propagation conditions. The stats for 2011 in the year-by-year table below show that clearly, especially when you consider that my time spent on the air was probably only slightly greater than in 2010. You will note that every category dealing with DX and/or high band HF work shows the highest total since the early 2000's. Definite proof the bands ARE alive again. With the maximum of sunspot cycle #24 not predicted to occur until some time in early 2013, next year (2012) should be even better than 2011.

The more years I add to this table, the more a graph of its values looks like the sunspot cycle, especially those items dealing with north polar path DX on the higher bands above 20 meters. Asian QSO's specifically, but to almost the same degree, European QSO's. However it also naturally depends on the amount of on-air time I put in each year. Because of the various NAQCC on-air events, I have been a bit more active in 2005-2011. Even with the amount of activity not factored in though, the DX stats portray the cycle quite well.

Category	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997	1996	1995
Cntrys Worked	120	66	69	58	68	77	90	99	102	128	126	149	137	123	100	67	98
10 M Cntrys	67	0	0	3	0	0	12	31	57	91	90	97	87	68	11	3	2
12 M Cntrys	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	9	8	28	50	41	23	5	1	1
15 M Cntrys	78	37	10	3	19	31	60	77	73	102	83	90	85	77	67	43	52
17 M Cntrys	40	5	1	0	0	1	3	8	9	10	11	55	40	31	19	6	23
20 M Cntrys	89	29	51	44	58	65	69	66	56	86	77	92	101	99	60	36	51
Tot QSO's	2573	1218	1561	2002	2158	1905	2341	2112	2204	3962	3386	4168	5615	4553	3898	3941	4777
Test QSO's	1579	687	1126	1540	1688	1380	1918	1701	1772	3489	2815	3332	4719	3854	3216	3209	3476
Non-Test QSO's	994	531	435	462	470	525	423	411	432	473	571	836	896	699	682	732	1301
6 M QSO's	2	0	0	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10 M QSO's	264	0	0	91	0	0	21	135	294	980	1083	1112	938	529	65	49	138
12 M QSO's	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	9	14	32	71	57	30	6	4	7
15 M QSO's	269	53	32	77	41	62	241	389	384	938	630	904	848	631	429	179	416
17 M QSO's	66	5	1	0	3	2	3	8	13	24	23	85	63	48	26	25	103
20 M QSO's	439	63	164	340	346	367	470	399	420	1009	625	924	1466	1408	635	474	687
DX QSO's	936	138	195	135	258	277	450	699	689	1981	1874	2269	2077	1385	529	233	444
Days DX Wkd	198	34	41	43	36	45	43	64	70	113	152	301	208	168	124	76	129
AF QSO's	49	5	9	7	23	9	12	23	31	35	25	56	47	24	15	8	18
AS QSO's	28	1	14	0	2	0	4	2	5	64	37	95	77	47	8	5	2
EU QSO's	514	81	92	51	79	136	241	390	439	1606	1565	1751	1592	1019	242	30	152
OC QSO's	29	3	8	1	4	3	1	3	4	16	23	37	28	18	3	3	8
SA QSO's	110	13	10	24	42	36	62	96	68	93	73	96	115	72	76	47	70
Pfx's Worked	696	269	350	368	398	402	520	531	531	841	779	922	965	818	614	515	663