ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 22.8
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 159
40: 491
20: 523
15: 43
10: 0
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Total: 1216 Sections = 82 Total Score = 199,424
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Did the CQ WW, then 2 days with no electricity, then a one day trip out and back
to Seattle. If it wasn't one of my favorite contests I might have skipped.
Got off to my best start ever. I don't think I have ever had more than 3-4
hours over 100 in 40+ years of SS. It was incredible how short the skip was on
20m.
Stayed in the chair for first 9 hours straight. By then it was starting to get
slow and the real SS CW showed up. Nothing to do but keep calling CQ and tuning
the second radio.
Had NP3A call me on 40 early Sunday morning. Figured K9VV would make an
appearance from KP2 on 15 on Sunday afternoon - just had to find him. I kept
tuning the band listening for a wild pileup. Worked more than 2 of every
section except only one VI and no NNY.
I was mentally ready to quit after about 18 hours, but kept pushing while
watching football on TV and reading the NCJ. I kept hoping an NNY station would
show up on 80 near the end. With 1 hour to go, I packed it in. (Where were the
K2NNY guys this year? We missed you!)
This was my 41st consecutive year with more than 1000 QSOs in SS CW. I love
many things about the contest, but low activity levels are concerning.
QSO/Sec by hour and band
Hour 80 40 20 15 Total Cumm Off
D1-2100Z - - 83/35 17/10 100/45 100/45
D1-2200Z - 8/0 91/13 9/0 108/13 208/58
D1-2300Z - 12/1 90/10 - 102/11 310/69
D2-0000Z --+-- 15/4 84/3 --+-- 99/7 409/76
D2-0100Z 6/0 62/2 19/0 - 87/2 496/78
D2-0200Z 37/0 34/0 - - 71/0 567/78
D2-0300Z 16/1 56/0 - - 72/1 639/79
D2-0400Z 10/0 48/0 - - 58/0 697/79
D2-0500Z 17/0 33/1 - - 50/1 747/80
D2-0600Z 18/0 10/0 - - 28/0 775/80
D2-0700Z 3/0 - - - 3/0 778/80 54
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 778/80 60
D2-0900Z - - - - 0/0 778/80 60
D2-1000Z - - - - 0/0 778/80 60
D2-1100Z 14/0 12/0 - - 26/0 804/80 24
D2-1200Z 7/0 26/1 3/0 - 36/1 840/81
D2-1300Z - 29/0 13/0 - 42/0 882/81
D2-1400Z - 23/0 19/0 - 42/0 924/81
D2-1500Z - 19/0 15/0 - 34/0 958/81
D2-1600Z --+-- 12/0 15/0 2/0 29/0 987/81
D2-1700Z - 2/0 17/0 8/1 27/1 1014/82
D2-1800Z - 5/0 16/0 - 21/0 1035/82 31
D2-1900Z - - 4/0 3/0 7/0 1042/82 43
D2-2000Z - 13/0 15/0 4/0 32/0 1074/82 5
D2-2100Z - 15/0 20/0 - 35/0 1109/82
D2-2200Z 4/0 6/0 15/0 - 25/0 1134/82
D2-2300Z 6/0 5/0 4/0 - 15/0 1149/82 38
D3-0000Z 14/0 18/0 --+-- --+-- 32/0 1181/82
D3-0100Z 7/0 28/0 - - 35/0 1216/82
D3-0200Z - - - - 0/0 778/80 60
Total: 159/1 491/9 523/61 43/11
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