ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 30.3
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 61 37
80: 333 73
40: 649 94
20: 1230 112
15: 1058 115
10: 103 55
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Total: 3434 486 Total Score = 5,006,772
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
My first entry in the Single op assisted category. I can see why people like
it. The mults just appear on the screen and you go work them. Well, you go
chase huge gnarly pileups and hope you work them. Did get to work lots of
mults I would never have found as a single op.
10m never opened to Europe from here. Everything was on scatter and there were
a number of stations that could not hear me. I think my top 10m beam is not
working as it should.
15m on Sat morning was amazing. Had a 209 hour plus 3 QSOs on the second
radio! New personal best on CW. Best 60 minutes was 217. Wow - what a rush!
15m and 20m both seemed to have an infinite supply of stations to work. Really
helped having the bands open deep into Russia.
After years of fault free operation my station is starting to show its age.
Burned up a coax relay last weekend in the RTTY contest so couldn't use the
tribander on one radio. About 1930z on Sat, I noticed the FT1000D would no
longer key the AL-1200. Some checking with the ohmmeter showed everything was
doing the right thing, but the relay in radio just wouldn't pull the amp into
transmit. Dug an old VHF transverter out of the closet and used it as an
intermediate relay between the rig and the amp. It worked!
Worked two JAs and NH2T on 80m on Sunday morning.
160m sounded absorbed on Friday night. Much better on Saturday, which really
helped the mult on that band. Could not get answers to CQs, but no problem
working stations.
Was a single parent of a 9 year old daughter this weekend so only a part time
effort. Had a blast when I was on. Just wish 10m had opened.
Operating quality was very high. No frequency fights. No frustration with guys
sending cut numbers that made no sense. The big problem on CW now is key
clicks. A pox on radio manufacturers who make rigs that can be overdriven to
click! Why do they do that?
Thanks to everyone who called in and provided so much fun this weekend!
Station Description
Radio 1 - Elecraft K3 + Alpha 76CA
Radio 2 - Yeasu FT-1000D + Ameritron AL-1200
Tower 1 - 100' Rohn 45G
40-2CD @ 110'
205CA @ 100' / 50'
5-el 15 @70' / 35'
160m 1/4-wave GP with 4 elevated radials
Tower 2 - 90' Rohn 25G
6-el 10 @90' with 4/4 @ 60'/30'
80m wire 4 square hanging from tower with 16 radials per vertical
160m shunt feed tower with 32 radials
Tower 3 - 40' Rohn 25G
TH7DXX at 40'
QSO/DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
OffTime
0000Z --+-- 22/14 44/27 8/8 5/1 --+-- 79/50 79/50
0100Z - - 69/18 31/19 1/1 - 101/38 180/88
0200Z - - 79/17 18/3 - - 97/20 277/108
0300Z 1/1 40/22 53/7 - - - 94/30 371/138
0400Z 2/2 29/12 20/1 - - - 51/15 422/153
0500Z - 104/8 11/2 - - - 115/10 537/163
0600Z 12/11 64/5 2/2 - - - 78/18 615/181
0700Z 6/5 1/1 87/5 - - - 94/11 709/192
0800Z --+-- 8/4 12/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 20/6 729/198 37
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 729/198 60
1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 729/198 60
1100Z - 1/0 6/2 - 51/22 - 58/24 787/222 34
1200Z - - 1/0 2/2 209/23 - 212/25 999/247
1300Z - - - 4/4 171/1 9/9 184/14 1183/261
1400Z - - - - 139/3 19/15 158/18 1341/279
1500Z - - - - 131/3 16/5 147/8 1488/287
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 139/30 8/6 5/4 152/40 1640/327
1700Z - - - 9/4 - 15/5 24/9 1664/336 48
1800Z - - - 103/7 32/22 5/0 140/29 1804/365
1900Z - - - 74/2 2/2 - 76/4 1880/369 29
2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1880/369 60
2100Z - - - 81/3 12/6 10/3 103/12 1983/381 2
2200Z - - 96/2 19/9 2/2 - 117/13 2100/394
2300Z - - 21/0 - 2/1 - 23/1 2123/395 45
0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2123/395 60
0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2123/395 60
0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2123/395 60
0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2123/395 60
0400Z - - 1/1 - - - 1/1 2124/396 59
0500Z 28/14 19/0 5/1 4/2 - - 56/17 2180/413
0600Z 9/2 25/1 2/2 59/2 - - 95/7 2275/420
0700Z 3/2 - 51/0 49/0 - - 103/2 2378/422
0800Z --+-- 3/1 42/0 4/0 --+-- --+-- 49/1 2427/423 22
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2427/423 60
1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 2427/423 60
1100Z - 4/3 2/1 142/4 - - 148/8 2575/431
1200Z - - 1/0 151/1 5/3 - 157/4 2732/435
1300Z - - - 106/3 41/3 4/4 151/10 2883/445
1400Z - - - - 47/4 1/1 48/5 2931/450 38
1500Z - - - - 17/2 2/2 19/4 2950/454 46
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 9/0 126/4 3/2 138/6 3088/460
1700Z - - - 102/1 2/1 3/0 107/2 3195/462
1800Z - - - 80/0 6/2 6/2 92/4 3287/466 17
1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 3287/466 60
2000Z - - - 33/5 3/2 4/2 40/9 3327/475 3
2100Z - - - 1/1 - 1/1 2/2 3329/477 60
2200Z - - 20/2 2/2 38/1 - 60/5 3389/482
2300Z - 13/2 24/2 - 8/0 - 45/4 3434/486
Total: 61/37 333/73 649/94 1230/112 1058/115 103/55
6 bands: 6Y2T 9A1A CR3L CR6K DM8D EF8R KH6LC KP2M M6T NP4Z OM7M P49V P49Y PJ2T
PJ4X PZ5RO SN7Q TI5W TM6M V31TP VP2MMM VP5OU ZF2AM
5 bands: 27 stations
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 4 45 95 174 159 2 479
UA 7 31 122 102 262
OK 2 31 41 68 65 207
I 1 18 32 77 48 4 180
UR 7 31 65 59 162
G 4 18 33 54 43 3 155
SP 1 16 28 51 44 1 141
F 5 14 22 29 27 4 101
Can you say QSL cards?
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