LOTW MILESTONE: ONE BILLION QSOS

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As of 21 December, some 1,000,400,000 QSO records have been entered into ARRL's Logbook of The World system. The 1,000,000,000th record was uploaded by 7X3WPL on 19 December at 23:32 UTC for a 20m SSB QSO with IW1DQS that took place on 28 December 2016. The upload resulted in a match (QSL). One billion QSOs represent a significant milestone, but a more important statistic may be the nearly 188 million QSOs confirmed via LoTW since 2003. Today, 75% of all DXCC applications are filed via LoTW, which accounts for 86% of confirmations applied. See http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-s-logbook-of-the-world-tops-1-billion-qso-records.