CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2019
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 267 17 77
80: 655 27 101
40: 979 34 134
20: 1691 34 146
15: 202 24 87
10: 36 11 25
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Total: 3830 147 570 Total Score = 7,769,412
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
I wanted to do the contest, but didn't do the mental prep work to commit for a
full effort. I "quit" for the first time after just 4 hours. But, as
always, the contest and online scoreboard sucked me in. Didn't hurt that the
weather outside was raining and cold. That meant no line noise, but we did have
rain static on Sunday afternoon. Part of my 40m run was listening on a dipole
that was up 30 feet.
Slept 90 mins the first night. Then 3 hours and then another 90 mins the
second.
Never felt loud all weekend. There were no other daytime bands besides 20m so
spent most of my time there. Lots of spot chasing on the second radio.
That was surely the best 160m conditions we have ever had for a WW CW. I had
some short runs to Eu both nights. Sat night the signal levels were great and
there was NO noise. Even the last hour had good signals from Eu. Sure never
expected to have a better line score on 160 than on 15!
As good as 80m was at Eu sunrise, what happened to 40m? It was empty even as I
worked Europeans on 160 and 80 well past their sunrise.
15 opened very early both mornings, then faded, and then came back as sunset
passed the eastern stations. Glad I got most of my mults on Sat, because was
not as good on Sun morning.
Never felt loud all weekend. And never had the really big rates, but it was
always interesting and entertaining. Had to keep reminding myself not to fall
into DXing. Rate is king in this contest!
The list of broken stuff keeps getting longer. No rotatable antenna on 15m.
Direction indicator on the tribander is out. Tribander showed high SWR on 20m
Sunday (never had that before). 20m stack system has a control cable short
somewhere... I should have addressed all this during the nice Summer and Fall
weather, but what's the fun in that?
I did record the contest if anyone wants to hear something.
Thanks to everyone who traveled to give out a multiplier. I have never had
anywhere close to 140 countries on a band as a single op - and half the world
was out of range due to propagation. Missed zones 23, 24,28 and 34.
Some numbers:
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z --+-- --+-- 47/54 38/27 --+-- --+-- 85/81 85/81
0100Z - 2/3 126/24 3/3 - - 131/30 216/111
0200Z - 29/28 85/15 - - - 114/43 330/154
0300Z - 49/19 65/3 - - - 114/22 444/176
0400Z - 64/12 22/13 - - - 86/25 530/201 15
0500Z 66/53 6/1 7/3 - - - 79/57 609/258
0600Z 67/4 47/7 6/5 3/3 - - 123/19 732/277
0700Z 16/12 65/13 1/0 - - - 82/25 814/302
0800Z 6/6 11/9 45/9 6/9 --+-- --+-- 68/33 882/335
0900Z - 2/3 9/3 8/7 - - 19/13 901/348 35
1000Z - - 2/0 - - - 2/0 903/348 60
1100Z 1/1 4/0 7/3 98/23 3/6 - 113/33 1016/381
1200Z - - - 186/14 8/13 - 194/27 1210/408
1300Z - - - 175/3 18/18 - 193/21 1403/429
1400Z - - - 165/6 25/19 - 190/25 1593/454
1500Z - - - 128/10 42/8 1/2 171/20 1764/474
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 43/35 22/18 4/8 69/61 1833/535
1700Z - - - 111/2 18/9 4/2 133/13 1966/548
1800Z - - - 64/12 4/5 17/16 85/33 2051/581
1900Z - - - 13/1 3/2 3/3 19/6 2070/587
2000Z - - 111/1 4/4 - 1/1 116/6 2186/593
2100Z - 3/1 138/1 8/3 - - 149/5 2335/598
2200Z - 7/5 48/16 3/0 - - 58/21 2393/619
2300Z 6/2 22/6 9/6 4/0 - - 41/14 2434/633
0000Z 2/1 11/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 13/4 2447/637 47
0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2447/637 60
0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2447/637 60
0300Z 6/3 26/2 1/1 - - - 33/6 2480/643 28
0400Z 3/3 82/7 11/1 - - - 96/11 2576/654
0500Z 24/4 86/2 - - - - 110/6 2686/660
0600Z 39/1 51/3 2/1 - - - 92/5 2778/665
0700Z 19/4 48/1 3/0 - - - 70/5 2848/670
0800Z --+-- 14/0 1/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 15/0 2863/670 43
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2863/670 60
1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 2863/670 60
1100Z - 6/1 13/2 42/2 - - 61/5 2924/675 6
1200Z - - 4/2 90/5 2/1 - 96/8 3020/683
1300Z - - - 124/1 2/0 - 126/1 3146/684
1400Z - - - 113/0 11/3 2/1 126/4 3272/688
1500Z - - - 83/1 22/3 - 105/4 3377/692
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 88/2 3/2 1/2 92/6 3469/698
1700Z - - - 71/2 8/0 - 79/2 3548/700
1800Z - - 3/0 4/1 4/1 1/1 12/3 3560/703
1900Z - - 11/0 7/2 - 2/0 20/2 3580/705 30
2000Z - - 56/3 3/1 3/1 - 62/5 3642/710
2100Z - 1/0 81/0 5/1 4/2 - 91/3 3733/713
2200Z 3/0 12/0 55/2 1/0 - - 71/2 3804/715
2300Z 9/0 7/2 10/0 - - - 26/2 3830/717 15
Total:267/94 655/128 979/168 1691/180 202/111 36/36
Best 60 mins: 208 starting @ 23-Nov-2019 12:45
Worked on 6 bands:
PJ4K VE3EJ 6V7A 8P5A 8R1/AG6UT D4C HI3CC P40W PJ2T PZ5W TI7W V26K V47T
Lots of 5-banders that covered 160-15m.
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