CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 18 7 13
80: 208 14 61
40: 178 21 70
20: 640 37 127
15: 817 37 127
10: 1437 31 129
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Total: 3298 147 527 Total Score = 6,446,810
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Wow, that was fun! The new saying might be, "When there's 10 meters,
there's no other meters!"
The whole world seemed to be on 10 meters all weekend. With the high MUF the
other bands really suffered except for short periods around sunrise and sunset.
I had a 200+ hour Sunday morning on 29022!! And there was plenty of activity all
the way up to 29100. Gotta love having some elbow room!
40m was difficult. The band was open pretty well, but there just aren't enough
operating slots between 7125 and 7200. I tried multiple times to CQ listening
down with no responses.
DX contests are fun when you aren't trying to win anything. Lots of other
things in life plus two long business trips left me unmotivated to operate full
time. Decided to use the Cluster and chase multipliers. Slept when I was tired.
Walked the dog both days. Had a blast.
Station is starting to show signs of age. High SWR on some antennas. RF in the
cable modem. This place used to feel really loud 20 years ago when first built,
but the rest of the world has increased their hardware and power so I spent a
lot of time waiting in line.
Highlights:
- Three hours over 200 QSOs! One of them when I finally got to 20m on Sunday
evening.
- Asia on 15m and 20m. Never worked so many China stations before - and they
were loud!
- Working DXCC on the 3 high bands.
- Signals were relatively clean (with a few exceptions) and with so much room
on 10 meters, I didn't get into any frequency squabbles.
Thanks to everyone who put me in their log. Always fun to spend a weekend of
ham radio DXing with 40,000 of my best friends!
Station:
K3 + Alpha 76CA
FT1000D + AL-1200
160m: Shunt fed tower (my GP failed on the second transmission)
80m: 4 square
40m: 40-2CD up 33m
20m: 205CA/205CA at 30m/15m
15m: 155CA/155CA at 20m/10m
10m: 6/4/4 at 30m/20m/10m
Mult: TH7DXX at 10m fixed south
By Continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 5 166 98 427 608 1237 2541 77.0
AS 0 4 8 50 84 40 186 5.6
NA 9 28 50 68 43 58 256 7.8
AF 0 5 5 22 19 18 69 2.1
SA 3 4 11 52 44 64 178 5.4
OC 1 1 6 21 18 20 67 2.0
Rates:
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z -+-- --+-- --+-- 66/58 27/24 --+-- 93/82 93/82 8
0100Z - - 44/40 39/19 18/9 - 101/68 194/150
0200Z - 40/32 13/5 6/2 - - 59/39 253/189
0300Z 3/5 61/8 22/3 - - - 86/16 339/205
0400Z 1/1 27/7 13/5 28/20 - - 69/33 408/238
0500Z 8/7 25/12 - 16/5 - - 49/24 457/262 19
0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 457/262 60
0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 457/262 60
0800Z -+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 457/262 60
0900Z - 10/6 5/4 - - - 15/10 472/272 50
1000Z - - 17/15 42/15 37/29 - 96/59 568/331
1100Z - 2/2 - 6/1 157/28 12/14 177/45 745/376
1200Z - - - - 1/1 147/48 148/49 893/425
1300Z - - - - 17/5 189/17 206/22 1099/447
1400Z - - - - 30/7 80/13 110/20 1209/467
1500Z - - - - 4/3 231/4 235/7 1444/474
1600Z -+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 2/2 47/6 49/8 1493/482 43
1700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1493/482 60
1800Z - - - - 92/12 36/13 128/25 1621/507 6
1900Z - - - 5/0 107/8 23/13 135/21 1756/528
2000Z - - - 14/1 7/3 9/5 30/9 1786/537 40
2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 1786/537 60
2200Z - - - - - - 0/0 1786/537 60
2300Z - - - 3/1 20/5 - 23/6 1809/543 45
0000Z -+-- --+-- 5/2 32/11 37/9 16/5 90/27 1899/570
0100Z 2/3 8/0 14/6 1/0 14/1 - 39/10 1938/580
0200Z - 11/1 15/6 22/2 - - 48/9 1986/589
0300Z 3/2 21/3 5/1 6/3 - - 35/9 2021/598 15
0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 2021/598 60
0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 2021/598 60
0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 2021/598 60
0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 2021/598 60
0800Z -+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2021/598 60
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2021/598 60
1000Z 1/2 2/2 1/1 1/1 - - 5/6 2026/604 51
1100Z - 1/2 6/3 23/8 19/2 - 49/15 2075/619
1200Z - - - 7/7 52/0 49/9 108/16 2183/635
1300Z - - - - 8/2 192/0 200/2 2383/637
1400Z - - - - 20/3 118/2 138/5 2521/642
1500Z - - - 5/0 7/1 25/1 37/2 2558/644 26
1600Z -+-- --+-- --+-- 1/1 1/2 5/1 7/4 2565/648 60
1700Z - - - - 10/0 165/3 175/3 2740/651
1800Z - - - 15/0 20/2 47/2 82/4 2822/655
1900Z - - - 34/1 86/4 12/0 132/5 2954/660
2000Z - - - 209/4 1/1 - 210/5 3164/665
2100Z - - - 44/0 23/1 25/2 92/3 3256/668
2200Z - - - 6/0 - 9/2 15/2 3271/670 40
2300Z - - 18/0 9/4 - - 27/4 3298/674 45
Total: 18/20 208/75 178/91 640/164 817/164 1437/160
Worked 9 stations on 6 bands: 8P5A DF0HQ HK1NA IB9T KH7XX P40L PJ4X TM6M V26B
Worked 39 on 5 bands and 58 on 4 bands. 160m was the missing one most of the
time.
Best 60 mins was 240 QSOs at Oct 25 1503-1602z
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 1 30 7 77 88 208 411
EA 1 13 5 32 48 71 170
F 2 7 4 24 32 64 133
G 8 4 33 43 77 165
I 8 10 34 49 116 217
PA 7 2 25 24 52 110
SP 6 7 20 33 66 132
UA 7 2 14 36 82 141
VE 4 15 21 20 11 11 82
Cool things
BY 9 9 18
JA 1 5 45 7 58
CM 2 3 5 4 3 17
YV 1 4 3 5 4 17
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