CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: PZ5T
Operator(s): VE3DZ
Station: PZ5RA
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Suriname
Operating Time (hrs): 47:50
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 371 15 64
80: 1092 26 81
40: 2246 34 106
20: 2719 32 112
15: 1380 23 98
10: 37 13 23
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Total: 7845 143 484 Total Score = 14,429,151
Club: Contest Club Ontario
Comments:
Radios: 2 x FTDX3000D
Amplifiers: ACOM2000A @ 1 kW, TL922A @ 600 W.
Antennas:
wire T-vertical for 160 m with top at around 40',
shorted wire vertical for 80 m on fiberglass pole,
AD3446 (3 el 40 m, 4 el. 20 m, 4 el. 15 m and 6 el 10 m) at 60',
Mosley PRO67C at 50',
2 beverages: NE and NE
N1MM Plus Logger
Last time I operated in the CQ WW DX CW from Suriname was exactly 6 years ago,
in 2012. What a change! AT that time the station was located on a small city lot
in the city of Paramaribo with 2 low tower pretty close to each other, low 80 M
dipole and practically non-existed 160 m, because Alpha Delta shorted half
sloper worked more like a dummy load and with some luck you could work about a
dozen countries on Topband.
Now there is so much space on the new property that one can put few full size 4
SQ for both 80 and 160 far apart from each other.
Ramon did a fantastic job in improving the station. Now there are to separate
3-band Yagis each of them including 40 m elements. 2 beverages NE and NW makes
it much easier to listen on Low Bands.
As a part of a deal, I had to use a pair of YAESU FTDX3000 radios, I can't say
it's a bad radio, but certainly quite different from my trusty K3's and in those
few days that I had I played with the radios but couldn't really adjust the
audio that would suit me for CW reception. Also, the buttons on the front panel
were quite uncomfortable, which gave me some troubles during the Contest,
especially while using RIT.
For the SO2R I was using old but trusty DX Doubler from Top Ten Devices, now
with SO2Rxlat board from PIEXX and I'm really grateful to Dave N3RD and Ted W4NZ
for theit tips on using that combination.
I used a combination of DX Doubler SO2R box, a couple of RigExpert USB
interfaces and USB hub, and I had to created more than a dozen virtual COM Port
on my poor old laptop with Windows 7. I realized that my setup was like a Day
Before Yesterday compared to the top guys like N6MJ, KL9A and CT1BOH, but it
worked pretty well for me. Being not that good at Dual CQ'ing, I was still
hoping not to fall behind those guys, keeping in mind the 3-point location
advantage.
The only problem and my biggest disappointment was a S5...S7 power line noise
which was coming from the direction of the house and also main street. Ramon
said it did not exist even a month ago when the group from the UK were operating
CQ WW SSB. We spent few days trying to locate the source, Ramon even bought a
small portable AM radio for that, but we couldn't do it in time for the Contest.
Ironically, only after the contest ended, we found out that the source if noise
appeared to be a faulty circuit breaker in the electrical box. Switching it bacl
and forth few times made the noise disappear.
Anyway, I had to live with that in the Contest. The most affected bands were 15
and 20 and that obviously prevented from uncovering that layer of the stations
which are usually audible, but don't move your S-meter.
Low bands were nearly great in the Contest, especially 40, where I felt really
loud. Sometimes on 80 and 160 I had a feeling that people do not hear me well
because of many repeats, but that said, it could be just because of heavy QRM
and don't forget that PZ located relatively from from both U.S. and Europe. Of
course, some directional antennas wouldn't hurt, but like I said comparing with
what it was before made me feel much better.
20 was good too, but I had to pay more attention to 15 and 10. 10 was
practically non-existed with some short sporadic opening, though I hoped it
could me my only chance to compete with the guys in the Caribbean. I worked only
one EU on 10 – EA5RS and also worked D41CV on Sunday afternoon who I never
heard before on any other band.
15 was pretty week too with shorter than usual openings to EU, and died pretty
early both days. Typical sunspot minimum.
I started pretty slow because of some unexpected problems with the 2nd radio
which I finally fixed on the fly while managing pile-up on radio 1, and since
the end of the second hour I was able use SO2R at full swing.
It was also amazing that I was able to stay awake for all 48 hours which didn't
happen to me in the last few years.
Now, analyzing everything and listening to the recording I can admit that I made
few mistakes and doing things pretty differently and with no noise I could
probably add another 300-400 Q's to my score, but in order to increase the
result significantly I need to work harder on my 2BSIQ capabilities and do
dramatic setup and antenna improvements.
I want to thank all who didn't refuse to move for me for a new MULT.
It was really nice competition with CT1BOH, N6MJ and KL9A. Expecting also some
big numbers from N2NT@V47T and RA3CO@CN2CO.
Thanks to all for the QSO's and see you next year from some place else!.
CQ WorldWide CW - 2018-11-24 0000Z to 2018-11-26 0000Z - 7951 QSOs
PZ5T Max Rates:
2018-11-24 1626Z - 8.0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 480 per hour by
2018-11-24 1555Z - 5.2 per minute (10 minute(s)), 312 per hour by
2018-11-24 1626Z - 4.6 per minute (60 minute(s)), 275 per hour by
Total Operating time: 47:50
Day Hr 1.8 3.5 7 14 21 28 Tot Accum
2018-11-24 00 0 0 169 64 0 0 233 233
2018-11-24 01 0 0 224 0 0 0 224 457
2018-11-24 02 0 57 142 0 0 0 199 656
2018-11-24 03 0 185 0 0 0 0 185 841
2018-11-24 04 29 96 58 0 0 0 183 1024
2018-11-24 05 152 0 0 0 0 0 152 1176
2018-11-24 06 86 38 38 0 0 0 162 1338
2018-11-24 07 0 78 119 0 0 0 197 1535
2018-11-24 08 0 40 115 0 0 0 155 1690
2018-11-24 09 16 52 17 0 0 0 85 1775
2018-11-24 10 0 6 3 179 0 0 188 1963
2018-11-24 11 0 0 0 218 0 0 218 2181
2018-11-24 12 0 0 0 213 0 0 213 2394
2018-11-24 13 0 0 1 125 85 0 211 2605
2018-11-24 14 0 0 0 51 164 0 215 2820
2018-11-24 15 0 0 0 103 149 0 252 3072
2018-11-24 16 0 0 0 101 129 1 231 3303
2018-11-24 17 0 0 0 112 92 2 206 3509
2018-11-24 18 0 0 0 88 106 2 196 3705
2018-11-24 19 0 0 0 103 60 0 163 3868
2018-11-24 20 0 0 147 1 24 1 173 4041
2018-11-24 21 0 0 160 0 3 0 163 4204
2018-11-24 22 0 0 116 47 0 0 163 4367
2018-11-24 23 0 0 95 48 0 0 143 4510
2018-11-25 00 0 0 153 0 0 0 153 4663
2018-11-25 01 1 22 106 1 0 0 130 4793
2018-11-25 02 0 71 106 0 0 0 177 4970
2018-11-25 03 4 0 158 0 0 0 162 5132
2018-11-25 04 63 1 41 0 0 0 105 5237
2018-11-25 05 0 154 0 0 0 0 154 5391
2018-11-25 06 0 162 0 0 0 0 162 5553
2018-11-25 07 0 103 36 0 0 0 139 5692
2018-11-25 08 6 8 59 0 0 0 73 5765
2018-11-25 09 14 19 18 44 0 0 95 5860
2018-11-25 10 0 0 0 153 0 0 153 6013
2018-11-25 11 0 0 0 141 0 0 141 6154
2018-11-25 12 0 0 0 62 80 0 142 6296
2018-11-25 13 0 0 0 23 93 0 116 6412
2018-11-25 14 0 0 0 82 56 0 138 6550
2018-11-25 15 0 0 0 90 46 0 136 6686
2018-11-25 16 0 0 0 30 70 12 112 6798
2018-11-25 17 0 0 0 68 44 11 123 6921
2018-11-25 18 0 0 0 62 117 6 185 7106
2018-11-25 19 0 0 0 134 47 2 183 7289
2018-11-25 20 0 0 34 86 15 0 135 7424
2018-11-25 21 0 0 26 134 0 0 160 7584
2018-11-25 22 0 0 70 68 0 0 138 7722
2018-11-25 23 0 0 35 88 0 0 123 7845
Total 0 371 1092 2246 2719 1380 37 7845 7845
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