CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 45
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 74 15 41
80: 564 22 79
40: 1186 33 107
20: 942 37 114
15: 1080 32 111
10: 1093 29 109
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Total: 4939 168 561 Total Score = 10,434,906
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
I wrote this to someone before the contest. "Habit says prepare like I am going
to do it all. Heart says give it a good shot, but only 30 hours. Mind says spend
time with family and blow it off."
Steak dinner befor the contest. Sat down to some amazing conditions and got
sucked into the contesting vortex. I was out of the chair for 3 times of <3
minutes each during the first 24 hours.
My line score at the halfway point was 3007/143/454 (5.2 Meg). Never worked
3000 QSOs in 24 hours before - ever! NN1N had made a statement before the
contest that he wanted to make 5000 QSOs because no one had ever done it before
(single-op from the USA). I started to have visions of such...
Took 25 minutes off at that point to join my family for the Thanksgiving turkey
we had missed preparing on Thursday. Made me a little sleepy during the 02z and
03z hours. I think I could have powered through the night, but decided that 3
hours of sleep would make me better prepared for the high rates during the day.
Looking at the other scores, a decision I may regret...
I sat down again at 1035z on Sunday morning and only got up for 2 more periods
of <3 mins until the end. Best part of all this, did not think about work for
the full 48 hours! I needed that.
Unbelievable rates. Although the rate sheet this year looks very similar to
2000 when I made 4500 QSOs from this same station. There must be something to
that 11 year sunspot thing!
Very hard to do the second radio when running as fast as possible. I really
tried to work the second radio hard on Sunday. Realized I was missing PJ2T on
10m for a mult. Spent an hour covering the full 150 Khz of activity - twice!
Still couldn't find them (did find a lot of other mults though). Heard them on
20m so I called and asked for their 10m frequency. They op replied that they
had shut down on 10m. Huh? Oh well, I tried.
Biggest challenge all weekend was people not sending their calls. I get the
temptation to just send TU when you have multiple people waiting, but there are
always people waiting. Better just to get in a groove and send your call. Some
of the worst offenders had some of the shortest calls! (D4C, you know who you
are.) I can only think of a few times all weekend when I did the TU thing so
high rates are possible while still IDing. It was so nice to tune across
someone like 8P5A and instantly know who it was.
Thanks to everyone for sharing the best weekend of fun that is possible on the
radio!
Station
Radio 1 - Elecraft K3 + Alpha 76CA
Radio 2 - Yaesu FT1000D + Ameritron AL-1200
Antennas:
160m - 1/4-wave GP, shunt fed tower
80m - 4 square
40m - 40-2CD @ 110'
20m - 205CA stack at 100'/50'
15m - 155CA stack at 66'/33'
10m - 7/4/4 at 90'/60'/30'
Mults - TH7DXX @ 40' pointed south
Numbers
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
NA 37 75 92 53 44 46 347 7.0
EU 28 457 1007 779 952 969 4192 84.9
SA 5 12 19 32 29 37 134 2.7
AS 1 6 42 46 32 14 141 2.9
AF 3 10 15 21 17 16 82 1.7
OC 0 4 11 11 6 11 43 0.9
Rates
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z --+-- --+-- 118/45 9/11 1/2 --+-- 128/58 128/58
0100Z - - 81/22 32/34 - - 113/56 241/114
0200Z 5/9 - 79/19 4/4 - - 88/32 329/146
0300Z 26/21 48/27 4/1 2/2 - - 80/51 409/197
0400Z - 141/14 - 7/4 - - 148/18 557/215
0500Z 10/5 74/14 - 1/2 - - 85/21 642/236
0600Z 8/6 20/2 49/4 3/4 - - 80/16 722/252
0700Z - 7/2 128/4 - - - 135/6 857/258
0800Z 3/3 18/15 99/7 --+-- --+-- --+-- 120/25 977/283
0900Z - 4/0 55/12 3/2 - - 62/14 1039/297
1000Z 5/2 10/10 13/5 3/2 - - 31/19 1070/316
1100Z - - 1/0 47/19 91/43 - 139/62 1209/378
1200Z - - - 7/5 132/10 38/23 177/38 1386/416
1300Z - - - - 14/9 181/23 195/32 1581/448
1400Z - - - - 10/6 178/5 188/11 1769/459
1500Z - - - - 128/2 37/8 165/10 1934/469
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 158/6 15/4 173/10 2107/479
1700Z - - - 91/7 71/0 14/9 176/16 2283/495
1800Z - - - 162/13 - 11/8 173/21 2456/516
1900Z - - - 131/4 - 21/16 152/20 2608/536
2000Z - - 3/0 81/8 26/29 - 110/37 2718/573
2100Z - - 77/4 - 10/6 1/2 88/12 2806/585
2200Z - - 109/1 4/1 - 5/0 118/2 2924/587
2300Z - - 67/1 8/5 8/4 - 83/10 3007/597
0000Z --+-- 15/3 2/0 9/2 --+-- --+-- 26/5 3033/602 25
0100Z - 27/2 16/0 8/5 - - 51/7 3084/609
0200Z 6/2 2/3 27/5 - - - 35/10 3119/619
0300Z 4/3 62/1 - - - - 66/4 3185/623
0400Z 2/3 57/0 - - - - 59/3 3244/626
0500Z - 30/1 38/0 1/0 - - 69/1 3313/627
0600Z - 15/1 57/0 - - - 72/1 3385/628
0700Z 4/2 6/0 7/1 4/0 - - 21/3 3406/631 23
0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 3406/631 60
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 3406/631 60
1000Z 1/0 5/5 1/0 7/0 - - 14/5 3420/636 35
1100Z - - 2/3 87/2 10/1 - 99/6 3519/642
1200Z - - - 32/0 8/1 128/7 168/8 3687/650
1300Z - - - - 5/2 170/4 175/6 3862/656
1400Z - - - 1/0 7/0 163/1 171/1 4033/657
1500Z - - - 4/0 55/2 66/2 125/4 4158/661
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 140/3 15/7 155/10 4313/671
1700Z - - - - 118/1 14/7 132/8 4445/679
1800Z - - - 41/0 62/5 10/4 113/9 4558/688
1900Z - - - 96/3 8/4 6/3 110/10 4668/698
2000Z - - - 42/4 - 20/5 62/9 4730/707
2100Z - - 37/0 11/5 5/2 - 53/7 4783/714
2200Z - - 71/2 - 13/5 - 84/7 4867/721
2300Z - 23/1 45/4 4/3 - - 72/8 4939/729
Total: 74/56 564/101 1186/140 942/151 1080/143 1093/138
Best 60 minutes was 201 QSOs. Personal best!
Second radio QSOs - 336
6 bands: 8P5A 9A1A C5A C6AAW DF0HQ DR1A OZ4UN PI4DX
PJ4A VP2MWG VP5CW
5 bands: 75 stations!
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