CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
Class Overlay: Classic
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 25
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 114 14 49
80: 266 17 65
40: 722 29 96
20: 1485 31 118
15: 279 20 72
10: 1 1 1
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Total: 2867 112 401 Total Score = 4,238,406
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
We had company for the holidays and the bed in the shack becomes a guest room.
They left on Sat morning, but I knew I was going to miss most of the first night
so decided to do the Classic overlay - one radio, no spotting.
Started on 20m casually DXing and working Asia. Then moved through each band
once. Then I was kicked out.
Back on Sat morning and wow! The rates on 20m were incredible. Had to finally
take the leap and go to 15m. It wasn't as good, but there were mults there.
Perfect conditions for being in W1. Usually only one band really open to Europe
at a time and they were all beaming our way. That means great rates if you can
get a frequency!
Must be a bit of WRTC fever still going on in Germany. I don't recall ever
working so many! They just kept calling in. Lots of Russian and Ukraine also.
Best DX was 8Q7DX and UP2L on 80m. Heard a zone 18 on 80, but he CQed in my
face. Did work RM9A and RA9Y. Any QSO with Africa was exciting (and usually
meant busting a big unruly pileup).
K1TTT was the ONLY signal I heard on 10m all weekend! I don't recall it ever
being so dead in a WW.
No equipment failures this time. 40m beam is still intermittent on receive and
the SWR on the south tribander is high (but it seems to work).
Knowing I needed to maximize my score within 24 hours, I tried not to operate
too much the first day. I think I timed it out almost perfectly. The 40m run on
Sun evening dried up about 10 mins after I hit the time limit. Spent the last
hour just tuning around and enjoying all the cool DX that is in CQWW.
So for my Classic score, it will be something around 2810 QSOs, 110 Z, and 396 C
for about 4.1M.
This contest really is the best in terms of activity and operating level. Thanks
to everyone for getting on and creating so much fun.
Rates
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z --+-- --+-- 73/32 30/9 --+-- --+-- 103/41 103/41
0100Z - - 98/32 - - - 98/32 201/73
0200Z 16/20 50/43 7/8 - - - 73/71 274/144
0300Z - 24/9 - - - - 24/9 298/153 37
0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 298/153 60
0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 298/153 60
0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 298/153 60
0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 298/153 60
0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 298/153 60
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 298/153 60
1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 298/153 60
1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 298/153 60
1200Z - - - 21/15 - - 21/15 319/168 54
1300Z - - - 189/29 - - 189/29 508/197
1400Z - - - 73/4 79/37 - 152/41 660/238
1500Z - - - 102/7 37/14 - 139/21 799/259
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 177/14 --+-- --+-- 177/14 976/273
1700Z - - - 73/29 16/12 - 89/41 1065/314
1800Z - - - 13/1 - 1/2 14/3 1079/317 48
1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1079/317 60
2000Z - - - 34/17 10/7 - 44/24 1123/341 11
2100Z - - 127/9 4/3 - - 131/12 1254/353
2200Z - - 140/9 - - - 140/9 1394/362
2300Z - 27/3 49/16 - - - 76/19 1470/381
0000Z 11/10 59/13 --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 70/23 1540/404
0100Z 29/14 - - - - - 29/14 1569/418 35
0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 1569/418 60
0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 1569/418 60
0400Z 40/8 7/1 - - - - 47/9 1616/427 20
0500Z - 93/12 - - - - 93/12 1709/439
0600Z 18/11 2/0 21/2 - - - 41/13 1750/452 11
0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1750/452 60
0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1750/452 60
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1750/452 60
1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1750/452 60
1100Z - 4/1 10/8 - - - 14/9 1764/461 39
1200Z - - 4/2 175/2 - - 179/4 1943/465
1300Z - - - 198/2 - - 198/2 2141/467
1400Z - - - 17/1 111/10 - 128/11 2269/478
1500Z - - - 148/3 12/5 - 160/8 2429/486
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 165/3 --+-- --+-- 165/3 2594/489
1700Z - - - 36/2 3/1 - 39/3 2633/492 20
1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 2633/492 60
1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2633/492 60
2000Z - - - 1/0 11/6 - 12/6 2645/498 44
2100Z - - 107/2 15/5 - - 122/7 2767/505
2200Z - - 67/2 14/3 - - 81/5 2848/510
2300Z - - 19/3 - - - 19/3 2867/513 40
Tot: 114/63 266/82 722/125 1485/149 279/92 1/2
Best 60 mins: 204
Worked on 6 bands: None!
Worked on 5 bands:
9Y4/VE3EY CN3A CR5E D41CV DA2X DF0HQ DR4A EC2DX EF8R G5O IR4X LZ9W M6T P33W
PI4CC PJ2T R7AB TK0C YT5A
Missed a lot of easy Caribbean mults on 160 because I missed the first night and
didn't op much past 06z on Sat night.
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 6 29 125 247 34 441
EA 2 8 29 49 6 94
F 2 5 17 61 14 99
G 6 7 16 78 22 129
I 2 7 49 83 31 172
OK 4 11 23 58 8 104
PA 2 4 22 64 3 95
SP 3 10 36 55 5 109
UA 7 22 34 108 3 174
UR 4 17 38 76 2 137
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