K3WWP's Yearly QRP Stats

2007 was a year of rock bottom conditions. To bottom that out even further, CW activity on the bands was at a low ebb. I think folks thought conditions were even worse than they actually were. On many days propagation seemed fairly good, but almost nobody was on the air to take advantage. However on many days the reverse seemed true. There were a lot of stations on the air, but all very weak. Personally I never checked 17 through 10 meters as often as I should have. I probably missed some good openings on those bands as a result. I did not make a single QSO on 10 or 12 meters in 2007. The one band that stood out this year was 160M. Conditions there were just great as they usually are at the bottom of a sunspot cycle.

At the bottom of this page is a comparison of some of my statistics for 1995 through 2007.

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 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 2005-2007. Even with the amount of activity not factored in though, the DX stats portray the cycle quite well.

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