Understanding the Club Log Most Wanted list

Club Log’s most wanted list is available at any time from this URL:

https://secure.clublog.org/mostwanted.php

The data set which creates this list is derived from QSOs uploaded by users, so with the exception of a certain amount of noise from bad logging, it is a factual (certainly, empirical) result. The percentages indicated next to each entity are the percentage of the users in Club Log who need to work the entity for an all-time new one (ATNO). When you filter the report by continent, the reduced population of users is taken into consideration, but if you filter by mode this does not apply.

One of the interesting things you can do is plot these percentages on a graph. Personally, I would not labour too much over the exact percentage values (nor why even the lowest ranking entities haven’t been worked by 100% of users – it’s about QSL claims, mainly). The shape is interesting.

You can see, below, that the shape of the graph highlights that the entities in the top 50 are the ones which have some kind of special rarity: probably cost, difficulty of access or remoteness, permits and political restrictions.

Club Log Most Wanted Graph

Here are those “critically wanted” entities – these are the ones that need our support (predominantly financial) to get them on the air:

Rank Prefix Entity Name % Users
1. KP1 NAVASSA ISLAND 87.69
2. P5 DPRK (NORTH KOREA) 84.23
3. 3Y/B BOUVET ISLAND 80.55
4. VP8S SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS 80.36
5. FT5W CROZET ISLAND 79.77
6. VK0H HEARD ISLAND 79.38
7. KH5K KINGMAN REEF 78.13
8. FT5Z AMSTERDAM & ST PAUL ISLANDS 77.96
9. FR/T TROMELIN ISLAND 77.17
10. FR/J JUAN DE NOVA, EUROPA 76.94
11. KH5 PALMYRA & JARVIS ISLANDS 76.63
12. VP8G SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND 75.00
13. KH1 BAKER HOWLAND ISLANDS 74.65
14. KH3 JOHNSTON ISLAND 72.96
15. CE0X SAN FELIX ISLANDS 71.95
16. BV9P PRATAS ISLAND 71.73
17. BS7H SCARBOROUGH REEF 71.16
18. VK0M MACQUARIE ISLAND 70.81
19. E3 ERITREA 70.80
20. KH7K KURE ISLAND 70.73
21. FT5X KERGUELEN ISLAND 67.82
22. VK9M MELLISH REEF 67.24
23. SV/A MOUNT ATHOS 66.08
24. ZS8 PRINCE EDWARD & MARION ISLANDS 65.39
25. 3Y/P PETER 1 ISLAND 64.32
26. FR/G GLORIOSO ISLAND 63.45
27. EZ TURKMENISTAN 63.01
28. JD/M MINAMI TORISHIMA 62.97
29. TI9 COCOS ISLAND 62.65
30. YV0 AVES ISLAND 62.60
31. T31 CENTRAL KIRIBATI 62.06
32. FK/C CHESTERFIELD IS. 61.61
33. T33 BANABA ISLAND 60.14
34. PY0T TRINDADE & MARTIM VAZ ISLANDS 59.77
35. KH9 WAKE ISLAND 59.73
36. EP IRAN 58.78
37. KH4 MIDWAY ISLAND 58.68
38. XZ MYANMAR 56.95
39. VP8O SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS 56.89
40. VU4 ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS 56.72
41. 3C0 ANNOBON 56.48
42. VK9W WILLIS ISLAND 56.02
43. CE0Z JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLANDS 55.84
44. ZD9 TRISTAN DA CUNHA & GOUGH ISLANDS 54.14
45. PY0S SAINT PETER AND PAUL ROCKS 54.09
46. YK SYRIA 53.88
47. 3C EQUATORIAL GUINEA 53.63
48. ZL9 AUCKLAND & CAMPBELL ISLAND 53.33
49. KP5 DESECHEO ISLAND 52.83
50. FW WALLIS & FUTUNA ISLANDS 52.82

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