CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 63 13 34
80: 422 21 83
40: 622 30 107
20: 1182 37 124
15: 804 31 108
10: 131 23 68
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Total: 3224 155 524 Total Score = 6,232,541
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
This contest suffered from two unusual failures: operator and antennas.
I wanted to do the contest. I prepared for the contest. But, when it started,
I just didn't seem to have the necessary motivation. Decided to sleep 90
minutes the first night in an effort to reduce the pain of the poor conditions.
Have never slept during the first night a serious effort before.
Discovered the first antenna problem when I tried to turn the side mounted 15m
beam to Europe Sat morning. It would get stuck at due North. Decided to push
on using just the antenna fixed on Europe at 30' and would try to determine the
problem later in the day.
Nothing fixes motivation like some high rates. Managed a best 60 minutes of 195
QSOs on Sat morning. Maybe I should just use the low antenna all the time!
Ran out to the tower later and found one leg of the 80m inverted vee had fallen
into the 15m beam. Pulled it back out and was fully rotatable again.
Second antenna problem occured around 02Z. Turned the 40/20m beam due south to
work CP6CW on 40m. Then couldn't get the Tailtwister to rotate back again. We
had a full moon and good weather, but didn't want to take a chance climbing the
tower. Kept trying to play with it but no wind, so it wasn't moving. So, only
40m antenann fixed south.
Told my wife that this effectively ended the contest for me. Decided to play
DXer on the low bands and try to make what score I could. 80m was great Sat
night at Eu sunrise. Gave up the normal 40m opening (maybe 100 QSOs) and went
to bed.
Sunday morning, got up and decided to do what I could with the fixed 20m beam to
Europe at 50'. Conditions on 20m were great. Band was wide open across Europe
and into zone 16. Worked lots of UA3 stations with great signals. Again, maybe
I need to do all my 20m running with the low antenna only!
15m and 10m never did much on Sunday. 20m was always more productive.
Was windy on Sunday and I could play with the rotator where I could see it
through the shack window. Finally got it off the stop and rotary again. Kept
me in the contest and was worth a lot of multipliers in the last several
hours.
Definitely a contest for SO2R (and to be in W1). No 10m, yet managed to work
lots of countries. One advantage of calling CQ on 20m all day is that lots of
strange and interesting things call in. Thus the big mult. Never heard zone 23
or 24 on any band.
Learned that sleep makes DX contests more fun. Also that sleep sure helps your
mental ability to handle high rates. As conditions go down, we are going to find
the activity is super concentrated into specific openings. May be worth
sleeping more to maximize rate production.
Another lesson is that motivation is often a matter of managing expectations.
When conditions were bad the first night, it was hard to imagine continuing all
weekend. Best not to try competing with past rate sheets and just deal with what
is happening now.
Lots of great operators out there. Just wish they would sign their calls more
often. Not all of us are using packet.
Equipment:
FT1000D + Alpha 76CA
FT1000D + AL-1200
160m: GP, shunt fed tower
80m: 4 square made of wires hanging from 90' tower
40m: 40-2CD @ 110'
20m: 5/5 @ 100'/50'
15m: 5/5 @ 66'/33'
10m: 6/4/4 @ 90'/60'/30'
South: TH7DXX @ 40'
Rates:
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band - K5ZD CQ WW CW 2004
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z --+-- --+-- 56/51 25/33 --+-- --+-- 81/84 81/84
0100Z - 31/21 44/14 7/3 - - 82/38 163/122
0200Z - 9/7 62/19 - - - 71/26 234/148
0300Z 9/13 48/20 13/3 - - - 70/36 304/184
0400Z 11/6 59/15 - - - - 70/21 374/205
0500Z 10/7 53/3 - - - - 63/10 437/215
0600Z 9/7 26/8 10/6 1/1 - - 46/22 483/237
0700Z - 30/11 13/2 - - - 43/13 526/250
0800Z 2/1 7/5 35/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 44/9 570/259
0900Z - 5/1 8/6 4/5 - - 17/12 587/271 25
1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 587/271 60
1100Z 4/0 1/2 8/3 66/37 5/7 - 84/49 671/320 9
1200Z - - - 73/8 86/41 - 159/49 830/369
1300Z - - - - 180/13 9/14 189/27 1019/396
1400Z - - - - 145/6 25/25 170/31 1189/427
1500Z - - - - 105/3 21/15 126/18 1315/445
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 40/17 18/11 58/28 1373/473<-ant
work
1700Z - - - 86/4 16/9 15/5 117/18 1490/491
1800Z - - - 59/6 20/10 2/2 81/18 1571/509
1900Z - - - 42/13 8/3 8/3 58/19 1629/528
2000Z - - 2/0 36/6 15/5 3/4 56/15 1685/543
2100Z - - 81/5 - - 8/4 89/9 1774/552
2200Z - - 96/6 - 16/6 - 112/12 1886/564
2300Z - - 55/4 8/2 2/0 - 65/6 1951/570
0000Z --+-- 1/0 23/0 2/2 --+-- --+-- 26/2 1977/572 36
0100Z 3/2 19/3 10/2 - - - 32/7 2009/579
0200Z 1/1 - 14/6 - - - 15/7 2024/586 25
0300Z - - 2/2 - - - 2/2 2026/588 60
0400Z 1/2 37/5 - - - - 38/7 2064/595<-rotator
fail
0500Z 6/5 24/3 - - - - 30/8 2094/603
0600Z 5/3 72/0 - - - - 77/3 2171/606 2
0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 2171/606 60
0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2171/606 60
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2171/606 60
1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 2171/606 60
1100Z 2/0 - 1/0 51/6 2/2 - 56/8 2227/614 16
1200Z - - - 110/1 16/4 - 126/5 2353/619
1300Z - - - 96/0 24/1 - 120/1 2473/620
1400Z - - - 112/2 12/2 - 124/4 2597/624
1500Z - - - 34/2 55/0 5/3 94/5 2691/629
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 136/7 4/0 1/0 141/7 2832/636
1700Z - - - 125/4 6/2 - 131/6 2963/642
1800Z - - - 31/5 4/2 7/3 42/10 3005/652
1900Z - - - 21/1 12/1 9/2 42/4 3047/656
2000Z - - - 21/6 10/3 - 31/9 3078/665
2100Z - - 27/1 5/2 2/0 - 34/3 3112/668
2200Z - - 17/0 30/4 - - 47/4 3159/672
2300Z - - 45/4 1/1 19/2 - 65/7 3224/679
Total: 63/47 422/104 622/137 1182/161 804/139 131/91
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