ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: K5ZD
Operator: KM3T
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: North Am
Operating Time (hrs): 42.7
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 21 16
80: 155 51
40: 200 67
20: 1097 108
15: 971 114
10: 1443 108
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Total: 3887 464 Total Score = 5,405,136
Comments:
- Taking a break from multi-op and getting back to single op efforts.
It's been 7 years since my last serious SOAB effort...too long out
of the chair.
- Had a blast...thanks to Randy for letting me use his fine station.
Conditions were incredible across all bands.
- SO2R is fun...need to learn to work the 2nd radio much harder. Down
on mults and I felt I was tuning a lot on the second radio but lost
some of my motivation in the middle of the contest.
- First time with a serious SO2R setup...highly recommend Top Ten
Devices' DX Doubler box...worked flawlessly.
See it at: http://www.qth.com/topten/
- Need to work on sleep strategy. Off from 02-07Z Sunday morning.
When conditions are this good there's little time for sleep.
Shouldn't have allowed myself to lie down. At least I got up before
the really high rate hours. No alarm clock, just the built-in one.
That was a mistake and I just got lucky this time. I had the
alarms, I was just too wacked out to set them.
- I used to think the Sprint was the toughest nut to crack. 48 hour
SOAB might be tougher. Different reasons, though. :-) 48 hour DX
contests are a real endurance test. Luckily, I'm in much better
physical condition than the last time I tried this. Getting really
good at this takes a lot of practice. And the will to stay up for
close to 48. :-)
Best rates:
1110Z: 7 per minute (420/hr)
1119Z: 57 per 10 minutes (342/hr)
1142Z: 226 per hour
Breakdown:
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K5ZD (KM3T) ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Single Op
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... ..... 88/43 37/5 11/4 136/52 136/52
1 . . . . 77/5 19/7 96/12 232/64
2 . . 47/25 34/12 . . 81/37 313/101
3 . 10/8 23/6 41/5 . . 74/19 387/120
4 11/10 39/14 2/1 2/1 . . 54/26 441/146
5 6/2 40/14 6/3 . . . 52/19 493/165
6 . 11/3 2/2 94/9 . . 107/14 600/179
7 2/2 . 17/9 64/2 . . 83/13 683/192
8 ..... 2/2 31/5 24/0 ..... ..... 57/7 740/199
9 . . 10/4 61/1 . . 71/5 811/204
10 . . . 72/3 99/28 . 171/31 982/235
11 . . . . 36/5 177/43 213/48 1195/283
12 . . . . 3/1 153/6 156/7 1351/290
13 . . . . 3/2 137/7 140/9 1491/299
14 . . . . 22/4 71/4 93/8 1584/307
15 . . . . 34/9 44/11 78/20 1662/327
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 15/4 84/3 99/7 1761/334
17 . . . . 9/3 78/4 87/7 1848/341
18 . . . . 110/11 3/2 113/13 1961/354
19 . . . 9/2 77/3 . 86/5 2047/359
20 . . . 59/3 9/6 11/2 79/11 2126/370
21 . . . . 56/1 20/0 76/1 2202/371
22 . . . 4/3 57/10 2/0 63/13 2265/384
23 . 9/1 2/1 1/1 6/2 32/2 50/7 2315/391
0 ..... ..... 26/1 9/1 1/1 45/1 81/4 2396/395
1 . 10/3 16/1 . 12/2 1/0 39/6 2435/401
2 . . . . . . . 2435/401
3 . . . . . . . 2435/401
4 . . . . . . . 2435/401
5 . . . . . . . 2435/401
6 . . . . . . . 2435/401
7 2/2 4/4 10/3 14/0 . . 30/9 2465/410
8 ..... ..... ..... 120/1 ..... ..... 120/1 2585/411
9 . . . 117/5 1/0 . 118/5 2703/416
10 . . 2/2 83/3 48/0 . 133/5 2836/421
11 . . . . 59/1 41/0 100/1 2936/422
12 . . . . 1/0 119/2 120/2 3056/424
13 . . . . 13/0 93/2 106/2 3162/426
14 . . . . 3/1 89/3 92/4 3254/430
15 . . . . 18/1 63/1 81/2 3335/432
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 18/0 66/1 84/1 3419/433
17 . . . 1/1 58/0 15/1 74/2 3493/435
18 . . . 4/3 19/1 38/1 61/5 3554/440
19 . . . 2/2 39/3 20/1 61/6 3615/446
20 . . . 61/0 19/0 . 80/0 3695/446
21 . . . 56/3 2/1 1/0 59/4 3754/450
22 . . . 75/3 5/3 3/0 83/6 3837/456
23 . 30/2 6/4 2/1 5/1 7/0 50/8 3887/464
DAY1 19/14 111/42 140/56 553/85 650/99 842/95 ..... 2315/391
DAY2 2/2 44/9 60/11 544/23 321/15 601/13 . 1572/73
TOT 21/16 155/51 200/67 1097/108 971/114 1443/108 . 3887/464
Continental breakdown:
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America SSB 7 11 21 20 25 35 119 3.0
South America SSB 3 5 8 17 15 40 88 2.2
Europe SSB 11 136 149 890 729 1194 3109 78.0
Asia SSB 0 1 16 150 194 180 541 13.6
Africa SSB 0 3 5 17 20 15 60 1.5
Oceania SSB 0 0 4 29 15 12 60 1.5
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