CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
Class Overlay: Classic
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 53 11 33
80: 190 18 69
40: 229 20 68
20: 1124 27 102
15: 657 25 90
10: 14 6 9
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Total: 2267 107 371 Total Score = 3,120,862
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Knew I couldn't do a full effort so decided to try Classic overlay.
I was finishing up a shown on Netflix when the contest started. Operated a bit
over 2 hours and then decided to watch the World Series. It was the bottom of
the 7th and I figured an hour would be a good break before getting back in time
for Europe sunrise. Whoops. 10+ innings later it was now 0730z and bands were
quiet. Gave up on trying to maximize my operating time for score. Went for fun
instead.
Got up early and found a frequency on 20m. Wow! Rate was great with band open
deep into Europe and Russia. Stayed a bit long just because the rate was so
good. When I got to 15m there were some loud signals so called CQ in the first
spot I found.
Magic! The band was open with spotlight propagation all around northern Europe.
Worked LY, OH and even some Russians. Has a 245 hour! This surprise and
discovery is part of what keeps us coming back year after year.
Took a nap in the afternoon. Caught a few stations on 10m, but not much. Only
SA on 15m. 20m was great into Japan with lots of big signals.
40m is just a mess. I never thought I would be wishing for us to go back to the
old days of working split all the time...
Watched the Red Sox again, but I did it while still working the low bands. Had
to catch up on mults.
Sunday opened exactly the same 20m opening time as Saturday. Got a good
frequency and had a nice few hours. It felt like conditions were better so I
decided to go to 15m earlier. This is where being Classic with only 1 radio is
a challenge. I changed bands only to discover conditions were not great. No
way to get my frequency back so I did some slow CQing on 15m.
It was weird. How can we have so many SP stations in the log and no Germans?!
They were even calling in after their sunset. As the sun moved, suddenly the
band opened to Germany. That helped the score!
Had to take some time off to attend a concert my wife was playing in. Got back
early enough to get to the 24 hour of operating mark. Although the last 2 hours
were slow. Called lots of loud Europeans on 75m that could not hear me. Argh.
As always, too many guys who don't send their call. Although I found them more
responsive when asked so maybe we are making progress.
Never heard zones 18, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, or 34.
Always amazing how this contest brings out the activity. Worked a lot of guys
that were not in the SCP file. Thanks to everyone that go on and helped us all
have more fun.
Randy, K5ZD
Rates
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z --+-- --+-- 18/19 26/10 --+-- --+-- 44/29 44/29
0100Z - 23/29 50/32 - - - 73/61 117/90
0200Z 12/13 10/5 - - - - 22/18 139/108 32
RedSox
0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 139/108 60
0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 139/108 60
0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 139/108 60
0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 139/108 60
0700Z 1/0 12/11 25/20 - - - 38/31 177/139 34
0800Z 5/5 8/6 7/3 1/2 --+-- --+-- 21/16 198/155 21
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 198/155 60
1000Z 1/0 9/7 11/4 6/8 - - 27/19 225/174 28
1100Z - - - 187/48 - - 187/48 412/222
1200Z - - - 218/6 - - 218/6 630/228
1300Z - - - 99/2 87/32 - 186/34 816/262
1400Z - - - - 245/20 - 245/20 1061/282
1500Z - - - - 24/15 - 24/15 1085/297 24
Break
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 22/7 --+-- 22/7 1107/304 60
1700Z - - - 102/9 1/0 - 103/9 1210/313
1800Z - - - 12/2 36/13 5/5 53/20 1263/333 12
Nap
1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1263/333 60
2000Z - - - - 16/6 - 16/6 1279/339 48
2100Z - - - 54/25 10/5 9/10 73/40 1352/379
2200Z - - 54/5 4/0 - - 58/5 1410/384 23
2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 1410/384 60
RedSox
0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1410/384 60
0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 1410/384 60
0200Z 7/5 32/10 9/1 - - - 48/16 1458/400
0300Z 11/8 26/7 4/0 - - - 41/15 1499/415
0400Z 12/12 23/6 - - - - 35/18 1534/433
0500Z 4/1 31/5 - - - - 35/6 1569/439
0600Z - 1/0 4/2 - - - 5/2 1574/441 52
Sleep
0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1574/441 60
0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1574/441 60
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1574/441 60
1000Z - 4/1 7/1 - - - 11/2 1585/443 16
1100Z - - - 142/10 - - 142/10 1727/453
1200Z - - - 211/5 - - 211/5 1938/458
1300Z - - - 19/1 11/3 - 30/4 1968/462 2
1400Z - - - - 42/0 - 42/0 2010/462 60
1500Z - - - - 63/11 - 63/11 2073/473
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 4/0 81/2 --+-- 85/2 2158/475
1700Z - - - 4/0 - - 4/0 2162/475 57
Concert
1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 2162/475 60
1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2162/475 60
2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 2162/475 60
2100Z - - - 14/0 18/1 - 32/1 2194/476 29
2200Z - - 29/0 20/1 1/0 - 50/1 2244/477
2300Z - 11/0 11/1 1/0 - - 23/1 2267/478
Total: 53/44 190/87 229/88 1124/129 657/115 14/15
Best 60 minutes: 252 @ 27-Oct-2018 13:57
Worked on 6 bands:
VP2MDG
Worked on 5 bands:
8P5A 9Y4W CN3A D4C EF8R FY5KE LX7I LZ9W P33W P40T PJ2T PJ4Q SN8B V26B
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 1 18 12 160 106 297
I 9 17 83 44 153
SP 2 6 4 55 33 100
F 8 9 52 28 97
UA 1 6 79 8 94
PA 1 9 3 54 24 91
G 1 6 5 50 27 89
EA 7 10 46 25 88
UR 1 6 5 47 17 76
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