CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2022
Call: KQ2M
Operator(s): KQ2M
Station: KQ2M
Class: SOAB HP
Class Overlay: Classic
QTH: CT
Operating Time (hrs): 24.0
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 24 8 20
80: 263 15 51
40: 725 22 75
20: 439 28 77
15: 757 25 81
10: 723 20 71
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Total: 2931 118 375 Total Score = 4,212,192
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
1 radio, 1 AMP, NO spotting assistance and 24.0 hours operating
I spent 4 hours on Thanksgiving fixing one of my ACOM200A’s but wasn’t able
to fix the second one. This meant that I would operate in the Classic category
where you can only use 1 radio and 1 amp. Lot of antennas needed to be repaired
too but there was not enough time to fix them fully before the contest.
CQWWCW was almost a repeat of CQWWSSB propagation-wise. Outstanding cndx for ~
3 days before the contest and then a CME and minor radio storm starting almost
at 00z Friday. My big mistake was choosing to operate 19 out of the first 24
hours rather than repeating what I did Friday night of CQWWSSB and then not
turning on the radio until Saturday morning.
Cndx were poor on 160 Friday, very good at times on 80 and great on 40. But
were much better Saturday night on 40-160. 10, 15 and 20 were also
significantly better on Sunday than Saturday even though 10 opened late on
Sunday. 20 was a disappointment at this qth both days, and Monday morning after
the contest I found out why. The Top 20 meter antenna was blown 50 degrees off
course in heavy winds during the weekend. When the Orion 2800 control box was
showing 45 degrees and pointing at Poland, the top 20 was actually slightly
South of East - 95 degrees and pointed at Liberia (EL). The 2 s-units of signal
strength lost was significant, perhaps costing me as much as 200 qso’s on 20.
UGH! Rates were great at times but rarely persisting for an entire hour. Peak
one hour rates were 196 on 10 on Saturday and 192 on 15 on Sunday. I went
mostly for rate on Friday/Saturday and then aggressively hunted mults all day
Sunday. As it turns out that was the wrong strategy this weekend with better
rates and propagation on Sunday than Saturday on all 6 bands!
Like in CQWWSSB, the top antennas were rarely better this weekend - which means
that we are well into Cycle 25 as signals are being propagated at higher wave
angles almost 100% of the time.
10 alternated between incredible and mediocre with very rapid QSB and lots of
spotlight propagation all weekend. The K index of 2 - 4 with a fast solar wind
and high proton density made 10 and 15 openings far more brief than what they
could have been. Anything to the North and over the pole had very short and
weak openings for the most part and generally Asia/Central Asia came from the
South, as did VK6. In fact, I worked ONE JA on 10 - JS6TES called me Sunday
morning long-path which was even more remarkable given that I had no antennas
pointed South at the time!
My mult count was far lower than I would have liked - too many times I had to
get the rate while it was there and by the time that band would be opening to
areas where I needed mults, the band was already almost dead. Either that or
another band was open and I had to be there instead. Remember, in CLASSIC, you
can only use ONE radio and no listening on a 2nd receiver! Normally I would run
on radio 1 and then mult hunt all weekend on radio 2, but that is not allowed in
Classic. So either the mult has to call you or you have to find it on your own
when you are S & P. There is no way to do both simultaneously.
Another drawback of Classic is that you have to count your FIRST 24 hours
operating - so you have to manage your time thinking ahead, not operating and
then selecting your best 24 afterwards. When you hit 24 hours you are DONE!
Consequently I made 90% of my low band qsos on Friday night because I had to
save my operating time for Sunday high band peak-rate times, which as it turned
out was almost all day Sunday vs. about 6 hours on Saturday. And no low band
qsos for me on Sunday evening either as my operating time was finished by ~
1408z on Sunday. When I stopped operating, cndx were excellent and I heard cw
signals up to 28118, 21125 and 14100!
Tnx for all the qso's and mults and thanks to those who spotted me. Special
thanks to all the DXpeditions and their ops. Even with RBN, those DX summit
spots are almost always good for a bump in rate! This becomes clear after the
contest is over when you look at the spots and compare it to your log.
Congrats to the high scorers – lots of BIG scores and records this weekend!
It was wonderful to see a very large increase in activity from Ukraine.
Lots of fun - can't wait for the next one.
Happy and Healthy New Year to all!
73
Bob, KQ2M
kq2m@kq2m.com
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KQ2M CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Operator
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... 84/41 ..... ..... ..... 84/41 84/41
1 . 100/37 1/0 . . . 101/37 185/78
2 9/15 35/1 21/6 10/15 . . 75/37 260/115
3 . 38/4 38/11 . . . 76/15 336/130
4 . . 135/7 . . . 135/7 471/137
5 . . 116/6 . . . 116/6 587/143
6 . . 100/4 . . . 100/4 687/147
7 . . 118/0 . . . 118/0 805/147
8 ..... 9/8 60/7 ..... ..... ..... 69/15 874/162
9 . . . . . . . 874/162
10 . . 4/4 . . . 4/4 878/166
11 . . . 134/46 . . 134/46 1012/212
12 . . . 9/1 101/39 78/27 188/67 1200/279
13 . . . . . 192/21 192/21 1392/300
14 . . . . 102/10 43/6 145/16 1537/316
15 . . . . 28/1 138/6 166/7 1703/323
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 132/9 24/0 156/9 1859/332
17 . . . 143/5 31/0 . 174/5 2033/337
18 . . . 89/3 15/15 6/9 110/27 2143/364
19 . . . 2/3 1/2 13/13 16/18 2159/382
20 . . 12/4 9/9 12/11 . 33/24 2192/406
21 . . 33/4 4/5 2/4 . 39/13 2231/419
22 . . . 4/7 5/6 . 9/13 2240/432
23 . . . . 1/0 . 1/0 2241/432
0 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 2241/432
1 . . . . . . . 2241/432
2 . . . . . . . 2241/432
3 9/8 53/8 1/1 5/3 . . 68/20 2309/452
4 1/1 1/1 2/2 . . . 4/4 2313/456
5 5/4 23/2 . 7/7 . . 35/13 2348/469
6 . . . . . . . 2348/469
7 . . . . . . . 2348/469
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 2348/469
9 . . . . . . . 2348/469
10 . . . . . . . 2348/469
11 . 4/5 . 23/1 27/1 . 54/7 2402/476
12 . . . . 190/8 . 190/8 2592/484
13 . . . . 110/0 38/1 148/1 2740/485
14 . . . . . 174/8 174/8 2914/493
15 . . . . . 17/0 17/0 2931/493
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 2931/493
17 . . . . . . . 2931/493
18 . . . . . . . 2931/493
19 . . . . . . . 2931/493
20 . . . . . . . 2931/493
21 . . . . . . . 2931/493
22 . . . . . . . 2931/493
23 . . . . . . . 2931/493
DAY1 9/15 182/50 722/94 404/94 430/97 494/82 ..... 2241/432
DAY2 15/13 81/16 3/3 35/11 327/9 229/9 . 690/61
TOT 24/28 263/66 725/97 439/105 757/106 723/91 . 2931/493
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