World Wide Digi DX Contest - 2020
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 16.2
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
-------------------
160: 43 13
80: 136 28
40: 251 39
20: 386 56
15: 41 14
10: 0 0
-------------------
Total: 857 150 Total Score = 262,350
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
An interesting learning experience. I know now the primary trait of a great
digi contester is patience! Whether it is waiting for 3 retries to complete a
QSO or wishing you could change the protocol to work all 5 callers that were
copied at one time. There is simply no way to make things go faster...
20m was almost too good. So much QRM it was hard to make QSOs at time and very
hard to work the deep Asia paths. The Digi contest does a great thing by
suggestion use of different channels to spread activity out. Might be better
with 3 khz rather than 2 khz so you know which channel a station is actually
using.
Band conditions on 15m were poor. Only South America and few (very few) e-skip
QSOs. Never even listened on 10m.
40 was open to Europe even at 2pm here in Boston. But, could not make QSO until
almost 4pm.
80m was busy, but not many Eu in the log. Same for 160. Got tired and slept 4
hours.
Best hours were early when running FT4 on 2 bands. In the end, FT8 was the more
reliable and productive mode. Slower, but seemed to have less failures to
complete contacts.
The combination of WriteLog and DigiRite was fantastic. Did the first 8.5 hours
of the contest at full tilt. Was transmitting almost 100% of the time by
alternating odd/even cycles on two bands.
Was fun chasing AA3B and LZ8E on the scoreboard.
Thanks to everyone for creating so much activity in just the second year of this
contest. Some of the DX contacts were amazing. Was fun!
QSO/Mul by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
1100Z - - - 1/1 - - 1/1 1/1
1200Z - - 39/9 38/10 - - 77/19 78/20
1300Z - - 37/0 48/7 - - 85/7 163/27
1400Z - - 13/1 33/7 1/1 - 47/9 210/36
1500Z - - - 35/11 17/5 - 52/16 262/52
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 31/6 1/0 --+-- 32/6 294/58
1700Z - - - 32/1 10/3 - 42/4 336/62
1800Z - - - 39/1 5/2 - 44/3 380/65
1900Z - - 22/4 34/2 - - 56/6 436/71
2000Z - - 6/2 17/1 4/1 - 27/4 463/75 28
2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 463/75 60
2200Z - - 25/7 28/1 3/2 - 56/10 519/85 5
2300Z - - 28/1 30/4 - - 58/5 577/90 3
0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 577/90 60
0100Z - 21/5 15/0 - - - 36/5 613/95 34
0200Z 23/10 33/13 2/0 - - - 58/23 671/118
0300Z 15/3 19/4 - 4/1 - - 38/8 709/126
0400Z - 30/4 26/7 - - - 56/11 765/137
0500Z 5/0 23/1 13/2 - - - 41/3 806/140
0600Z - 2/0 9/3 - - - 11/3 817/143 41
0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 817/143 60
0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 817/143 60
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 817/143 60
1000Z - - 1/1 - - - 1/1 818/144 59
1100Z - 8/1 15/2 16/3 - - 39/6 857/150
Total: 43/13 136/28 251/39 386/56 41/14 0/0
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/
______________________________________________
3830 mailing list
3830@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/3830
|