BLOG gets DXCC before I do

Well kind of…

Every now and again I will let you in on a little bit of data that has been given to me by the WordPress (my hosts here) Stats Monkey…  They from time to time tell me how I’m doing along with some hints on how to make things better.  They are usually a friendly group of bodies and if you had to put a blog someplace…  WordPress would not be a bad choice…  As you can tell it does seem to work for me….

Anyhow… What to write about on a very snowy and wet day in Ottawa???

Back in late February 2012 WordPress started keeping track of where my visitors were coming from.  Or to be more specific where the IP Numbers were assigned to….  This lets me know what countries I am getting visitors from.  In an Amateur Radio Blog this data could be interesting and here are the stats from February 25th to April 14th this year.

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 VA3QV’s Weblog

Top Views by Country for all days ending 2012-04-14

Since February 25, 2012

Country-  Views-  

Canada- 4,368

United States- 2,900

United Kingdom- 767

Italy- 542

Poland- 327

Netherlands- 326   Brazil- 307

Germany- 301

France- 253

Spain- 220

Greece- 215

Croatia- 188

Australia- 187

Russian Federation- 153

Indonesia- 151

Portugal- 144

Romania- 134

Sweden- 128

Japan- 114

Thailand- 101

Belgium- 93

Finland- 87

Denmark- 84

Hungary- 84

Turkey- 84

Norway- 80

Ukraine- 76

Argentina- 71

Czech Republic- 71

Philippines- 55

Slovenia- 54

Switzerland- 49

Malaysia- 46

Serbia- 43

Mexico- 41

Slovakia- 41

Bulgaria- 41

Republic of Korea- 38

New Zealand- 38

Austria- 36

Colombia- 35

South Africa- 33

India- 32

Chile- 30

Saudi Arabia- 25

Israel- 25

Ireland- 24

Venezuela- 24

Latvia- 23

Lithuania- 22

Pakistan- 17

Bosnia and Herzegovina- 17

Cyprus- 16

Taiwan- 15

Iceland- 14

Puerto Rico- 10

Singapore- 10

Estonia- 10

Lebanon- 9

Viet Nam- 9

Macedonia- 9

Trinidad and Tobago- 8

United Arab Emirates- 7

Belarus- 7

Honduras- 7

Egypt- 6

Dominican Republic- 6

Ecuador- 5

Brunei Darussalam- 5

Peru- 5

Malta- 5

Nigeria- 5

Kuwait- 4

Morocco- 4

Hong Kong- 4

Luxembourg- 4

Cuba- 3

Qatar- 3

Sri Lanka- 3

Bolivia- 3

Maldives- 3

Panama- 2

Oman- 2

Guyana- 2

Jordan- 2

Micronesia, Federated States of- 2

Guatemala- 2

Albania- 2

Liberia- 2

Zimbabwe- 1

Mauritius- 1

Netherlands Antilles- 1

Ethiopia- 1

Gibraltar- 1

Uruguay- 1

Yemen- 1

United Republic of Tanzania- 1

Cayman Islands- 1

Angola- 1

Iraq- 1

Kenya- 1

Bermuda- 1

Kyrgyzstan- 1

Jamaica- 1

Armenia- 1

Sudan- 1

Costa Rica- 1

Barbados- 1

El Salvador- 1

Andorra- 1

Faroe Islands- 1

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So as you can see if you do the counting although we cannot confirm where the visitors were from ….  It appears from the IP Numbers that we have had visitors from over 100 DXCC entities so far.

My blog made DXCC before I did…

Well stranger things have happened and for those who have visited me once or numberous times….  Thanks for your visit and I hope you come back again…

73bob

A “Special Day” here at the Blog

Wednesday April 4th 2012

Blog Stats

• 250,146 hits

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If you look on the right side of the screen just below “Bob said on Twitter” and above “Blogroll” you will see the Blog Stats Counter

Last nite when I went to bed we were at 249,925 and this morning when I finally got near a computer I saw that we had just achived a bit over the Quarter Million mark.  What this means that since I started this Blog just over 5 years ago we have now had over a Quarter of a Million Visitors.

I remember my first month where after 25 days of blogging I had 82 visitors…  Now we get about 300+ a day…

So thanks to you all who visit…  Its kind of a trade off….  You come to get information….  and your visits inspire me to continue on….  There is no point in trying to reinvent the wheel…  I’ll just do my best to keep you informed….and  lets see how long it takes to reach a half million…

So thank you again…

73bob

ps…  Thanks to the good people at wordpress for putting up with me for over 5 years

There could be a hidden message here

Good Morning Group….

The sun is shining here in Eastern Ontario and it supposed to get a bit warmer this afternoon and if things go according to plan my FT817 and the IC703 that belongs to Jose VA3PCJ will be heading outside for some fresh air this afternoon.  The owners of the rigs will go along for the ride…  Its looking like a great day is about to start…

In other places around the world people are most likely checking their mail boxes waiting with great inticipation for the arrival of their new Elecraft KX3.  I saw a tweet that the first ones were shipped on Thursday so the first ones should be at their new homes very soon…

On the topics of new Portable rigs… 

(Above Photoshopped picture that created the FT 818 April Fools Joke)

How many of you saw the April Fools Joke about the Yaesu FT818? The rig was quickly outed as a joke but…  To be honest it was a fairly popular joke.  My blog hosts (WordPress) give me a lot of detail about what you are looking for when you arrive here via a search engine and also what pages you look at once you get here… Not really who is doing the clicking but what posts you are looking at…  I must say that the FT818 recieved considerable interest with just under 1000 visits since I posted it.  On the topic of that posting If you GOOGLE “Yaesu FT 818″ the top two results for that topic bring you back here to that posting on my blog…

So Mr Yaesu…  I know you occasionally read this blog… You have commented directly or indirectly in the past…  You do read the other newsgroups…  I THINK YOUR FANS ARE ASKING FOR AN UPGRADE TO WHAT I CONCIDER TO BE THE BEST RADIO AROUND…  My FT 817 (non ND version) has been around for around 10 years or so… I bought mine within a year of its arrival in Canada…  

Its been on DXPeditions, SOTA Activations and its even been used in Search and Rescue Applications…  Its been soaked in the rain, its been baked and its been frozen and its been dropped and bounced more times that I care to remember and its still going strong…

(above-remember the Maple Island Activation for CISA)

(Above- freezing my radio and other things in the Winter Field Day)

Its not going to be replaced but it wants a new playmate….  Its wants a “Baby Brother… and I think its time… While its still on the top…

73bob

 

The year 2011 in Review (Pt 3)

Todays blog post comes to us from the Good People at WordPress.com.  For reasons unknown the report got lost in cyberspace and a couple of really great people at WordPress jumped in and found the report and made sure I could shared a copy with you…

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So many thanks to Erika V and Karim for firstly putting up with me and secondly getting the data for me so I could share it with you…

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 71,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

The “Stats Monkey” is recovering from New Years

For those of who who were looking forward to my Year end Review (Part 2) please be patient as I should have it out later today….  For now I thought I would share a bit of a laff with you…

As you might know my host here (WordPress) gives you some stats that come complete in a posting for your blog.  Its nothing really that the regular stats that WordPress supplies to me does not really cover but they put it together nicely in a package and as I’m normally feeling lazy around this time of the year why not let them supply the posting to me… 

An example of this posting could be found on VE3HG’s blog or VE3EMB’s blog which are both on my blogroll…

So I waited a little bit then sent off an email to WordPress which readed like this:

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> I noticed that the stats monkey gave some fantastic info to me last Jan 1st but
> nothing this year.  I also saw that he gave some info to other wordpress blogs
> this year…
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> Will the stats monkey be sending something to me so I do my year end review for
> 2011 blog post…
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> thanks
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> bob of va3qv.wordpress.com

so in my email when I checked it this afternoon came the following:

Hi Bob,

We only include blogs that got more than 30 views in November, and more than 1000 views overall in the year

Thanks.

Karim – Happiness Engineer
Automattic | WordPress.com

to which I replied (after I finished laffing….)

Hi Karim and thanks for the reply….

 

So my blog stats or just over 71,000 visitors in 2011 and just over 6,100 visitors in November 2011 don’t count?????

 

So now I figure that the Stats Monkey might be overtired or this one just slipped though the cracks  so anyway…  I will work on my year end review (part 2) which should be out later today and then the detailed stats which would be part 3 will take a little longer to compile unless WordPress jumps in to help a bit…

 

I have been exceptionally pleased with the service supplied by my host (WordPress) in the past and I am sure this will get rectified in the near future but I find it slightly amusing when they told me the reason they were not providing the stats… 

 

73bob

 

Top 10 Search engine results

One of the best features of WordPress in my opinion is the way it collects stats for the blog operator.  It gives me the most popular posts, the least popular posts, along with what you entered in the search engine (Google/Yahoo etc) that caused you to come here…

You might remember me mentioning this when I said that the recent RAC problems were not a big draw…  Not a popular topic by a long shot…

Here are the top 10 Search engine terms used to find my blog …

YAESU FT 5000	13481
YAESU FT 847	4818
VA3QV	2562
CANADA DAY	2552
YAESU FT 350	2333
YAESU VX8- ANY MODEL	2296
YAESU FT 817	1827
TAK TENNA	997
W3EDP	803
YAESU FT 450	555

Isn’t technology wonderful???

FIRST PLACE

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2nd Place and my personal favourite

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3rd place- but my wifes Personal Favourite

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Now to be fair the top 10 list is about what I talk about.  You won’t see any other radios making it into the top 10 here as I operate Yaesu Radios…  As you know I have the FT 847, FT 897 with a FC40, FT817, FT 2400,  VX8GR and the FT 60.  I tend for the most part to talk about things I know about… (some of you may not agree) so as I operate Yaesu I talk about Yaesu…

I have mentioned other brands such as the Kenwoods APRS Line (700s and 710s) and I really like the DSTAR idea but have not bought one yet…

Its not that Yaesu is the best radio…  It is in my opinion but I do respect your opinions…  its that I operate Yaesu…

I’ll continue working on the stats and one day will give you a list of the top 10 all time posts and lets see if you agree with the masses…

73bob