Tuesday, August 30, 2011

LoTW Application Complete!

My latest Logbook of the World (LoTW) application was submitted on July 19, 2011 and completed on August 29, 2011. In this application, I applied for 93 LoTW QSO credits, 20 paper QSO credits, and one DXCC award (10M). The following table contains my current DXCC status. Complete details regarding all confirmed DXCC entities and additional information regarding the DXCC awards program can be found by clicking here.

Mixed 157 Confirmed 157 Awarded 0 Pending (0 LotW, 0 Paper)
CW 127 Confirmed 127 Awarded 0 Pending (0 LotW, 0 Paper)
Phone 131 Confirmed 131 Awarded 0 Pending (0 LotW, 0 Paper)
Digital  78 Confirmed  78 Awarded 0 Pending (0 LotW, 0 Paper)
80m  20 Confirmed  20 Awarded  0 Pending  (0 LotW, 0 Paper)
40m  92 Confirmed  92 Awarded 0 Pending (0 LotW, 0 Paper)
30m   5 Confirmed   5 Awarded 0 Pending (0 LotW, 0 Paper)
20m 117 Confirmed 117 Awarded 0 Pending (0 LotW, 0 Paper)
17m   3 Confirmed   3 Awarded 0 Pending (0 LotW, 0 Paper)
15m 129 Confirmed 129 Awarded 0 Pending (0 LotW, 0 Paper)
12m   6 Confirmed   6 Awarded 0 Pending (0 LotW, 0 Paper)
10m 104 Confirmed  104 Awarded 0 Pending  (0 LotW, 0 Paper)

 

Friday, August 12, 2011

Starts With A Bang! and Messier 29

One of my favorite science blogs is Starts With A Bang! by Ethan Siegel. Ethan is a theoretical astrophysicist at the Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. I hadn't checked in on his blog in a few weeks so I spent some time today reading through recent postings and ran across a post from August 2nd entitled "If I had a Telescope this Summer...". Reading through the excellent post on summer objects to view, I was pleasantly surprised to see he used my photo from last fall of the open cluster Messier 29 in Cygnus (see below). Now it really is my favorite blog! (Click here for a larger version of the photo.)