ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: ZF9CW
Operator(s): K5GO
Station: ZF9CW
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Cayman Brac
Operating Time (hrs): 45.5
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 613 57
80: 725 60
40: 1159 62
20: 1420 60
15: 1102 59
10: 111 22
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Total: 5130 320 Total Score = 4,924,800
Club: Cayman Amateur Radio Society
Comments:
There were times when I thought giving up the hobby in favor of sleep or
watching TV would be a good idea. There were times when I thought it doesn't
get any better than this - Simple quarter wave verticals, a good signal and lots
of people calling.
As usual, after about 40 hours of no sleep for me, all the black equipment turns
to a dark red color and I cannot hear the fourth dash in the 9 of my callsign -
sounds like dah dah dah dit. Slowed it down to about 20 WPM just to carefully
count and make sure it was actually sending a 9.
No hardware or software problems at all. The weather was nice and not any big
noise problems.
I decided to cautiously dip into dual CQ. I was afraid of trying it when there
were a lot of callers so just did it when the rate was not high and think it was
a good exercise.
It is amazing how your energy level can elevate when the end is in sight -
perhaps six hours before the end of the contest I was like a 50 year younger
WA5RTG (Ready To Go). I set some goals which were somewhat lofty and almost
achieved all of them. The plan was to end the contest with every hour well in
excess of 100 contacts which would give me well over 5000 contacts and over 5
million points. I love working multipliers and along the way, not loving my
multiplier count on 160m I made schedules with four new multipliers to work in
the last 15 minutes of the contest. PJ2T was camped out on MY chosen frequency
of 1805 for those schedules and when he vacated the frequency at 2330 I grabbed
it. So the last hour was horrible and I only worked one of the scheduled
multipliers and fell just short of the 5 Million goal.
Need to learn to give a little more time in pressing ENTER key. I wore the
Escape key out hitting enter to call CQ simultaneously with someone starting to
call.
All things considered I am pleased with how well I did. For several days before
the contest I could never get spotted on 10M by Skimmers regardless of how much
power I ran and some days could not get spotted on 15M. 15M turned out to be a
good band and 10M at least opened for a while, although not wide spread, on
Saturday. I will put it on the list of things that will never happen to go back
and count to see if my guess is accurate - that out of 111 contacts on 10m there
were 25 or more with Tennessee.
Thank you for the contacts. I will load the log into LOTW soon.
Rita and I are both dreading the Phone Contest so not sure what I am going to do
about that. If anyone wants to come down here and operate phone and put us up
atn the Brac Reef Beach resort for two nights, let me know :-)
73...Stan, ZF9CW
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CALLSIGN: ZF9CW
CONTEST: ARRL-DX-CW
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: ZF9CW
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000 0 0 0 139 46 1 186 186 3.6
0100 0 0 0 176 0 0 176 362 7.1
0200 0 0 23 134 0 0 157 519 10.1
0300 2 1 169 0 0 0 172 691 13.5
0400 0 0 194 0 0 0 194 885 17.2
0500 1 121 58 0 0 0 180 1065 20.8
0600 88 96 0 0 0 0 184 1249 24.3
0700 99 0 35 0 0 0 134 1383 26.9
0800 20 44 22 0 0 0 86 1469 28.6
0900 7 33 39 0 0 0 79 1548 30.2
1000 0 24 20 0 0 0 44 1592 31.0
1100 57 69 0 0 0 0 126 1718 33.5
1200 1 12 23 42 0 0 78 1796 35.0
1300 0 0 63 22 6 0 91 1887 36.8
1400 0 0 0 0 114 0 114 2001 39.0
1500 0 0 0 0 115 0 115 2116 41.2
1600 0 0 0 1 155 0 156 2272 44.3
1700 0 0 0 0 167 0 167 2439 47.5
1800 0 0 0 0 135 9 144 2583 50.3
1900 0 0 0 0 0 73 73 2656 51.8
2000 0 0 0 0 53 27 80 2736 53.3
2100 0 0 0 166 5 0 171 2907 56.6
2200 0 0 48 91 0 1 140 3047 59.4
2300 0 9 33 22 22 0 86 3133 61.0
0000 1 0 146 0 0 0 147 3280 63.9
0100 35 1 74 0 0 0 110 3390 66.1
0200 22 141 0 0 0 0 163 3553 69.2
0300 67 56 0 0 0 0 123 3676 71.6
0400 77 12 0 0 0 0 89 3765 73.4
0500 34 0 11 0 0 0 45 3810 74.2
0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3810 74.2
0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3810 74.2
0800 22 18 0 0 0 0 40 3850 75.0
0900 16 1 24 0 0 0 41 3891 75.8
1000 29 0 28 0 0 0 57 3948 76.9
1100 26 49 9 0 0 0 84 4032 78.6
1200 0 0 58 10 0 0 68 4100 79.9
1300 0 0 0 66 0 0 66 4166 81.2
1400 0 0 0 65 0 0 65 4231 82.4
1500 0 0 0 77 0 0 77 4308 83.9
1600 0 0 0 96 0 0 96 4404 85.8
1700 0 0 0 51 26 0 77 4481 87.3
1800 0 0 0 0 140 0 140 4621 90.0
1900 0 0 0 0 110 0 110 4731 92.2
2000 0 0 0 108 9 0 117 4848 94.5
2100 0 0 4 123 0 0 127 4975 96.9
2200 0 0 72 31 0 0 103 5078 98.9
2300 9 38 7 0 0 0 54 5132 100.0
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Total 613 725 1160 1420 1103 111 5132
Gross QSOs=5250 Dupes=118 Net QSOs=5132
Unique callsigns worked = 2493
The best 60 minute rate was 203/hour from 0411 to 0510
The best 30 minute rate was 208/hour from 0039 to 0108
The best 10 minute rate was 246/hour from 0020 to 0029
The best 1 minute rates were:
6 QSOs/minute 3 times.
5 QSOs/minute 71 times.
4 QSOs/minute 285 times.
3 QSOs/minute 539 times.
2 QSOs/minute 678 times.
1 QSOs/minute 646 times.
There were 310 band changes and 152 (3.0%) probable 2nd radio QSOs.
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
4 3176
5 1479
6 460
7 12
8 4
9 1
Multi-band QSOs
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1 bands 1265
2 bands 514
3 bands 283
4 bands 206
5 bands 184
6 bands 41
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
W5MX N5AW K3LR NR4M WA4PGM K8LS
N5AA K5TR W3LPL AC4G NR5M K3SW
K4TCG K4ORD K5EK N8BJQ N3RD W9SN
WD9Q KU8E K3PP K0OO K3PH W3KB
W3DQ K3MD N8UM K8AZ K1LT K9NW
K2XR AA3B N4QS WF7T N3RS NE3F
N5DX N8VV K3ZO K8MFO K9IG
------- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O s ------
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
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QSOs 139 115 282 434 277 18
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