On 2026-02-12, I finally managed to reach 100 contacts over the radio. Considering 2026-02-17 will mark the first year of being licensed, I find it pretty good. Before November 2025, my transmissions were sparse, but DMR revived the whole thing for me and I’ve been making most of my contacts via this mode.
For the occasion, I have compiled a few statistics about those contacts. All numbers are as of writing this post, so things might look different now. Generally I write a few posts then queue them for the upcoming days.
Most of the stats are derived from the Amateur Radio Logbook Adif File Analyser by SV5FRI.
General stats
- 100 contacts total.
- 66 confirmed.
- 31 different entities.
Modes and bands
For the modes used:
- 10% on FM.
- 17% on FT8.
- 73% using DMR.
And the bands:
- 82% on 70cm.
- 13% on 20m.
- 4% on 6m.
- 1% on 2m.
Entities
The top 10 entities contacted are:
- USA: 19.
- Finland: 17.
- Germany: 12.
- England: 7.
- France: 4.
- Italy: 4.
- Russia: 3.
- Hungary: 2.
- Poland: 2.
- Canary Islands: 2.
Other fun stats
Most of my QSOs are made around 16:00 UTC. It seems I had one lone one around 23:00 UTC, but most of them are contained within a reasonable time.
For the days of the week, Monday, Sundays and Fridays are the days I do the most QSOs, with the Tuesdays being the most empty ones. This kinda makes sense, I usually try doing one or two contacts after work during the week.
… and that’s it, yeah. Just wanted to show that because I’m fairly proud of it. I think my next objective will be to reach 500 QSOs while keeping that confirmed/unconfirmed ration at, or above, 50%.
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