CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: ZM4T
Operator(s): DL1MGB ZL2IFB ZL2MY ZL3CW ZL3IO ZL3TE ZL4YL
Station: ZL3IO
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: Kiwi-DX-Lodge
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 65 11 10
80: 664 30 73
40: 1789 33 110
20: 1512 33 104
15: 1313 25 58
10: 100 10 18
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Total: 5443 142 373 Total Score = 8,232,275
Club: Bavarian Contest Club
Comments:
Chris, DL1MGB (Chairman of WRTC2018 in Germany) & wife Anja are travelling
Australia /New Zealand and timed the trip well to arrive at the Kiwi-DX-Lodge in
time for the CQWW CQ contest. Wes, ZL3TE & Jacky, ZL3CW were also keen to
join and together with us "locals" (ZL2iFB/2MY/3IO/4YL) we had a big
team for a relaxed M/2 operation together. We spend the weekend in the clouds
since it was raining all time. Birgit, ZL2YL cooked and kept us all well feed. I
doubt anyone lost weight over the weekend.
The result is actually better than my expectation was. The high band conditions
(10/15) m were down from a few weeks earlier. We had very deep QSB on both bands
and stations would disappear before we could finish the report. EU did never
open via SP on 15 m in our evenings like the week before. The VK's were running
EU but the extra hop we need did not happen and left us out of the show.
Luckily the low bands were compensating a little bit and we ended up only 250
Q's and a few multipliers short from last year. May the excessive amount of
radials installed starts to pay off.
Day one was much better than day two and while we were still ahead of KH6J &
KH6LC after day one things went very slow during day two while they managed to
run and pass us. Being two hops closer to North America and one hop closer to
Asia surely helps. Nevertheless it was good fun to watch the online scoreboards.
The new 160m vertical came first time into play and we hopefully could make a
few people happy. From the 65 QSO's on 160 m only eight were within 10,000 km
radius!
Also 80 m was playing very well. Low band conditions seem to be fine but we
struggled to read calls due to the static crashes we had on those bands. Thanks
everyone for the patience and also thanks to the other stations for standing by
and letting us finish QSO's. We had the impression that the behavior is getting
better.
40m is usually our money band and confirmed this again this weekend even so we
lost the top (or main) beam due to a contact issue. All QSO's during day two
were done on the lower (only 10m high) secondary beam.
We find it still amazing that we work more EU's on (80/40/20) m than any other
continent even so Europe is 16-20 thousand km from here.
Thanks to everyone for the QSO's! We had a great time and hope to see you soon
in one of the next contests.
73 Holger, ZL3IO for the whole ZM4T team
----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y -----------------
160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
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North America 38 210 704 478 939 11 2380 43.7
South America 0 7 21 23 12 3 66 1.2
Europe 0 221 710 504 16 0 1451 26.7
Asia 19 198 297 456 310 73 1353 24.9
Africa 0 6 9 10 3 0 28 0.5
Oceania 8 22 47 40 33 13 163 3.0
??? 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
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Total 65 664 1789 1512 1313 100 5443
Rig: 2 x K3 plus 1 kW
Ant:
160: vertical
80: 4 square
40: 2L + 2L
20: 3L + 3L
15: 3L + 3L
10: 4L + 4L
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