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Subject: [3830] ARRLDX SSB K5ZD SO Unlimited HP
From: webform@b4h.net
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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 01:26:52 +0000
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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB - 2021

Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD

Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   35    25
   80:  181    59
   40:  297    80
   20: 1513   106
   15:  143    42
   10:   26     3
-------------------
Total: 2195   315  Total Score = 2,074,275

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

One year ago I was in V4 for this contest.  What a year it has been since!

This was a just for fun effort.  Started late.  Watched some TV. Chased cluster
pileups. Only used one radio.

Got on Sat morning and found 20m just opening around 1015z.  By 1030 it was off
to the races.  Three consecutive hours over 200/hour!!  Wow.

Started scoreboard watching and it was quite the race between AA3B, K1KI, N3RD,
and AA1K. I would go away, see they had pushed ahead, and then I would chase. 
Provided some motivation to keep plugging away.

Chased spots when I wasn't trying to run.  Missed a few mults I might have
gotten if I had the second rig on.

Only a few skew path Europe on 15m.  It was not good.  That left everyone on 20m
shoulder to shoulder. 

40m was weird.  Never heard it really open until the last 2 hours.  But, I did
miss the pre-darkness hours on Saturday. I may have been avoiding it because the
beam is intermittent on receive.  Got really annoying at times.  It does improve
the longer RF is injected, but takes longer to clear the intermittent on SSB
than CW or RTTY.  Definitely a project for this summer!

75m and 160m weren't bad, but there just didn't seem to be much activity.  I.e.,
lots of unanswered CQs.

In a way, it was nice not having all the big multi-ops.  Made it more possible
to find a frequency - especially on 20 and 40.  We definitely miss the
expeditions...

Best DX was VK6APZ on 75m LP Sunday evening.  Thanks to K1RX for the spot.  Also
good to have UA9BA call in on 40m during the last hour for a new mult. Was also
cool to have 3 YB and an HS call in on 20m in the morning.

Spent a lot of time in cluster pileups this weekend listening to whatever DX
station it was essentially reading (working) the FRC and PVRC rosters while I
waited my turn. 

Thanks to all the DX stations that got on the air and gave us contacts - even
dealing with some gnarly pileups. 

Special thanks to VA2WA and contestonlinescore.com for making the game much more
fun.

Station

K3 + AL-1200

80m: 4 square, dipole
40m: 40-2CD @110′
20m: 205CA @100′
15m: 155ca @66′
10m: 6-ele @90′
TH7DXX @ 40′

WriteLog software, MK2R+ SO2R box

Rate Sheet

QSO/DX by hour and band

 Hour     160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm   
OffTime

D1-0000Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   22/9     6/1    --+--   28/10     28/10    
35
D1-0100Z   2/2    26/20   52/29    3/0      -       -     83/51    111/61  
D1-0200Z   1/1    14/6    13/6      -       -       -     28/13    139/74    
31
D1-0300Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     139/74    
60
D1-0400Z   8/7      -       -       -       -       -      8/7     147/81    
52
D1-0500Z   8/5    26/11    4/2      -       -       -     38/18    185/99  
D1-0600Z   3/2    29/4    11/6      -       -       -     43/12    228/111   
18
D1-0700Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     228/111   
60
D1-0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0     228/111   
60
D1-0900Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     228/111   
60
D1-1000Z    -      2/1     3/2    63/16     -       -     68/19    296/130   
24
D1-1100Z    -       -       -    207/20     -       -    207/20    503/150 
D1-1200Z    -       -       -    220/14     -       -    220/14    723/164 
D1-1300Z    -       -       -    221/8      -       -    221/8     944/172 
D1-1400Z    -       -       -     50/9    20/14     -     70/23   1014/195 
D1-1500Z    -       -       -      1/1     2/2      -      3/3    1017/198   
56
D1-1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   30/0    26/14    3/2    59/16   1076/214    
4
D1-1700Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1076/214   
60
D1-1800Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1076/214   
60
D1-1900Z    -       -     17/3    18/5    27/3      -     62/11   1138/225   
16
D1-2000Z    -       -     12/2    27/10     -      6/1    45/13   1183/238   
13
D1-2100Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1183/238   
60
D1-2200Z    -       -       -     16/5    11/2      -     27/7    1210/245   
38
D1-2300Z    -       -     14/2    10/1     5/0      -     29/3    1239/248   
35
D2-0000Z  --+--   --+--   15/3    --+--   --+--   --+--   15/3    1254/251   
47
D2-0100Z    -     19/1    13/3     2/1      -       -     34/5    1288/256   
28
D2-0200Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1288/256   
60
D2-0300Z   3/3    15/6    16/5      -       -       -     34/14   1322/270    
6
D2-0400Z   5/1    20/5     3/1      -       -       -     28/7    1350/277 
D2-0500Z   5/4     3/0      -       -       -       -      8/4    1358/281   
35
D2-0600Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1358/281   
60
D2-0700Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1358/281   
60
D2-0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    1358/281   
60
D2-0900Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1358/281   
60
D2-1000Z    -       -      7/2    23/0      -       -     30/2    1388/283   
22
D2-1100Z    -       -       -    159/2      -       -    159/2    1547/285 
D2-1200Z    -       -       -    123/1      -       -    123/1    1670/286 
D2-1300Z    -       -       -    104/2      -       -    104/2    1774/288 
D2-1400Z    -       -       -     27/0     4/1      -     31/1    1805/289   
34
D2-1500Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1805/289   
60
D2-1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--    4/1     3/1    --+--    7/2    1812/291   
53
D2-1700Z    -       -       -     74/0      -       -     74/0    1886/291 
D2-1800Z    -       -       -     32/0    16/1    16/0    64/1    1950/292 
D2-1900Z    -       -       -      9/1    16/2     1/0    26/3    1976/295 
D2-2000Z    -       -      6/1    31/0     7/1      -     44/2    2020/297    
8
D2-2100Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2020/297   
60
D2-2200Z    -      1/1    51/6    28/0      -       -     80/7    2100/304   
10
D2-2300Z    -     26/4    60/7     9/0      -       -     95/11   2195/315 

Total:    35/25  181/59  297/80 1513/106 143/42   26/3  

Best 60 mins: 228 @ 06-Mar-2021 11:41

Worked on 6 bands: NONE!

Worked on 5 bands: CQ8M ED8W FM5BH HH2AA II9P IR6T J68HZ NP4DX PJ2T V31MA WP3R
ZF1A ZF5T ZW5B

Most worked countries:

          160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total
     I       3     11     35    215      3            267
    DL       1     26     22    134                   183
     G       1      6     14    133                   154
     F             13     16     91                   120
    PY              3     12     31     52     20     118
    EA       3      8     12     83      1            107
    PA              2      7     98                   107

Great to see so much activity from South America!


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