ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2023
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 36.2
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 76 38
80: 402 57
40: 853 78
20: 1097 87
15: 1211 89
10: 1318 87
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Total: 4957 436 Total Score = 6,483,756
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
This contest did not take the normal path. After 8k+ QSOs in January for the N1W
WRTC event, WPX RTTY last weekend, plus some business travel, I hit the wall at
about 0300z the first night. Even though the conditions were terrific, I just
couldn't see pushing through. Went to sleep for 6 hours.
When I woke up I was more than 500 QSOs behind K1ZZ and even more behind N2IC on
the scoreboard. But, I felt great and the rates Saturday morning were simply
amazing.
The second wall hit about 2 pm so took some time off to eat. Got back on for a
while and then decided I needed to get a walk in before dark. Got back on after
sunset to discover an incredible opening to Japan. Even had some BY stations
call me! At the 24-hour mark I had more JAs in the log than stations from
Italy. Whoa.
Saturday evening I decided to try to catch up from missing Friday night. The low
bands were excellent and very quiet. Could hear almost anything. The sunrise
peak on 160 to Europe was great with 9A1A up to S9 for a while.
Was catching up to the leaders so only slept for 90 minutes and then go back
straight on to 20m. Rates were not as crazy, but the band was open deep with JA
and BY calling in over Europe.
It was fun watching the scoreboard and chasing. Decided to just power through to
the end to see if I could catch the leaders. Seeing K1ZZ, N2IC and I switching
places at the top on almost every update was exciting. Thought I had passed N2IC
at the end for the win, but K5GN turned in a truly amazing score from Texas that
was ahead of us all.
Only SO2R here. Tried to run on two bands when the rates slowed, but just can't
do it. It was an experiment that lasted 10 minutes at most.
The worst signals of the weekend award go to TM6M (some kind of wide sidecars on
their signal especially on 20), SN3A (very wide on 40m), and many others from
Europe with strong clicks (too many to remember and name).
Having all bands open spread out the activity. Was relatively easy to find a CQ
frequency. At the same time, that plus the rates made it very difficult to find
multipliers. You would tune by and just hear "599 KW" and then
"TU." Before the cluster and RBN stations had a reason to sign their
call to generate pileups. No more.
Best DX was being called by VU stations on 40-10m. HS on 10-20. V85 called in on
20 and then heard me through a big pileup on 15. VR2CO called in. Also DU3T on
two bands. Nice to have JAs calling me on 10 and 15. The JAs were even loud on
40.
All the antenna work over the summer paid off. The new 40m stack is
significantly better to Europe than the other 40m beam. And the low stack on 10m
made me feel like the king of the band.
We will likely never see conditions this good again across all of the bands in
the same weekend. Too bad I didn't make a recording of this one.
Thanks to contesters around the world for chasing us all weekend. Especially
for the number of Russian and Ukraine stations that were on. These guys really
know CW!
Station:
K3 + AL-1200
K3 + AL-1500
160m: 1/4-wave GP, shunt fed tower
80m: 4 square, dipole
40m: 2-el @110'. 2/2 @ 110'/65'
20m: 5/5 @100'/50'
15m: 5/5 @66'/33'
10m: 6-el @100', 4/4 @62'/32'
TH7DXX @40' (south)
Rates
QSO/DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z --+-- --+-- 64/26 53/26 23/14 5/3 145/69 145/69
0100Z - 73/24 77/7 - 3/1 2/2 155/34 300/103
0200Z 9/8 22/6 85/6 8/3 6/5 - 130/28 430/131
0300Z 8/8 - 26/4 66/11 - - 100/23 530/154
0400Z 3/3 - 3/0 - - - 6/3 536/157 56
0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 536/157 60
0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 536/157 60
0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 536/157 60
0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 536/157 60
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 536/157 60
1000Z 3/3 14/13 21/10 48/6 - - 86/32 622/189 12
1100Z - - - 146/18 47/24 - 193/42 815/231
1200Z - - - - 218/17 - 218/17 1033/248
1300Z - - - - 25/1 191/39 216/40 1249/288
1400Z - - - - 1/0 198/6 199/6 1448/294
1500Z - - - - 7/1 166/6 173/7 1621/301
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 88/4 63/6 151/10 1772/311
1700Z - - - - 151/6 12/2 163/8 1935/319
1800Z - - - 21/0 114/2 22/2 157/4 2092/323
1900Z - - - 58/3 4/0 - 62/3 2154/326 34
2000Z - - - 59/2 - - 59/2 2213/328 43
2100Z - - - 2/0 2/0 - 4/0 2217/328 54
2200Z - - - 18/2 38/2 5/2 61/6 2278/334 26
2300Z - - - - 39/3 54/1 93/4 2371/338
0000Z --+-- --+-- 70/1 18/6 3/2 4/2 95/11 2466/349
0100Z - 26/1 48/8 3/1 - - 77/10 2543/359
0200Z 8/6 20/4 - - - - 28/10 2571/369 36
0300Z 5/3 67/2 5/1 - - - 77/6 2648/375 18
0400Z 4/0 92/3 8/1 - - - 104/4 2752/379
0500Z 28/5 58/2 - - - - 86/7 2838/386
0600Z 7/1 23/1 115/1 - - - 145/3 2983/389
0700Z - - 121/6 2/0 - - 123/6 3106/395
0800Z --+-- 1/0 59/3 2/0 --+-- --+-- 62/3 3168/398 27
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 3168/398 60
1000Z 1/1 1/1 - 34/0 - - 36/2 3204/400 43
1100Z - - 1/1 191/2 - - 192/3 3396/403
1200Z - - 1/0 24/2 141/1 - 166/3 3562/406
1300Z - - - - 27/0 154/6 181/6 3743/412
1400Z - - - - 4/0 161/1 165/1 3908/413
1500Z - - - - 18/0 132/2 150/2 4058/415
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 15/1 115/1 130/2 4188/417
1700Z - - - - 120/1 11/2 131/3 4319/420
1800Z - - - 61/0 65/0 12/2 138/2 4457/422
1900Z - - - 120/1 13/1 - 133/2 4590/424
2000Z - - - 109/2 7/3 - 116/5 4706/429
2100Z - - 28/1 49/0 1/0 11/2 89/3 4795/432
2200Z - - 93/1 5/2 1/0 - 99/3 4894/435
2300Z - 5/0 28/1 - 30/0 - 63/1 4957/436
Total: 76/38 402/57 853/78 1097/87 1211/89 1318/87
Best 60 minutes: 228 @ 18-Feb-2023 11:45z
Worked on 6 bands (43):
9A1A 9A3XV CR3W DD1A DD2D DQ2C DR4A E7DX ED1R F6FYA G5W G6XX HB9AMO HG5D HG6N
II2S IK1PMR IQ8SN KP4AA LN8W LZ2RS NP4Z OL3Z OM0R OM4MW OR3A OZ5W P40N PJ2T PJ4A
S53M SN7O SN7Q SP4Z SP8R SP9ATE T48K TI7W TM6M TO4A V3T VP5K ZF1A
(This alone tells you how great all bands were!)
Most worked entities:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 10 60 134 156 156 213 729
I 4 27 65 73 89 91 349
UA 18 36 70 97 108 329
SP 5 26 40 44 43 73 231
OK 3 31 49 46 49 50 228
PA 1 11 35 61 41 71 220
JA 1 16 48 97 53 215
G 3 12 41 38 44 48 186
F 4 19 48 36 30 46 183
EA 3 14 34 46 40 34 171
HA 2 17 34 35 39 43 170
SM 1 10 20 31 32 41 135
UR 15 18 26 35 40 134
OH 1 10 13 24 28 25 101
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