CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY - 2023
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 40.5
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 316 42 41 12
40: 663 50 62 18
20: 900 49 73 26
15: 1102 45 84 29
10: 513 40 72 23
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Total: 3494 226 332 108 Total Score = 5,545,782
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
This was a casual effort that turned serious. Didn't do the normal sleep and
food prep for a big effort. Was looking forward to the contest, but didn't
expect to spend full time. Conditions on Friday night and Saturday were great.
Lots of good openings and rate. I would have been very happy if it ended after
24 hours.
The second 24 hours was a bit of a slog. Not helped when one of my amplifiers
failed about 1305z. The power output went from 1400W to 2W. After spending an
hour operating with one radio and thinking about quitting, I decided to pull a
spare amp out of the closet and keep going. Was back in full SO2R mode by
1500z.
Was entertaining to watch the race between K1LZ and AA3B on the online
scoreboard. They really piled up the multipliers. At one point on Saturday I
was more than 160 mults behind AA3B. I made it my goal on Sunday to close the
gap to less than 100. You would think available mults are somewhat fixed, and I
should be able to find some that he worked using the cluster. But, no matter
what I did, I never made it to under 100 mults behind. It was good motivation
to keep me tuning the bands.
The rebuilt TH7 now has an SWR problem on 10m. The amp didn't seem to care and I
was able to work stations to the south.
Nice JA run on 15m Saturday evening. Almost all right at the noise level.
It was interesting to see how the bands opened in the morning. 20m was open
well before sunrise, but didn't last long after due to absorption. 15m was the
daytime money band. 10m was good on Saturday morning, but not so much on
Sunday.
Spent time checking which antenna was best. For 10m, it seemed like the high
antenna at 100' was always better than the low stack or all 3. On 15 and 20 the
stack was always best.
Spent a lot of time chasing missing states. Thought I was going to miss RI on
20m, but found NC1CC with an hour to go. Was missing OR on 20m until N7DB
called in during the last hour. Didn't hear a MT station until late Sunday and
then got K7QA on 2 bands. Did work all states. DE was the rare one with only
one QSO.
Always a fun contest. The RTTY crowd is very proficient these days. Except for
those few guys who still insist on sending everything 3 times. Biggest
impediment to rate is my ability to type. I would mess up a letter and the
station I was working would repeat their call multiple times. My bad.
This is a new personal record for this contest.
Station
K3 + AL-1200
K3 + AL-1500/Alpha 76CA
80m: 4 square, dipole
40m: 2/2 @110'/70'
20m: 5/5 @100'/50'
15m: 5/5 @66'/33'
10m: 6/4/4 @100',64',32'
South: TH7DXX @40'
Rates
QSO/Zn+Dx+St by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime
D1-0000Z --+-- 38/37 60/48 --+-- --+-- 98/85 98/85
D1-0100Z - 66/21 43/18 - - 109/39 207/124
D1-0200Z 24/24 21/7 3/0 21/27 - 69/58 276/182
D1-0300Z 51/20 65/16 - - - 116/36 392/218
D1-0400Z 48/16 65/9 - - - 113/25 505/243
D1-0500Z 15/5 63/1 9/3 - - 87/9 592/252
D1-0600Z - 18/4 66/12 - - 84/16 676/268
D1-0700Z - 3/0 14/0 - - 17/0 693/268 49
D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 693/268 60
D1-0900Z 3/2 11/4 29/1 - - 43/7 736/275 34
D1-1000Z 9/4 25/6 60/14 - - 94/24 830/299
D1-1100Z - - 40/6 105/34 - 145/40 975/339
D1-1200Z - - 4/2 88/10 80/31 172/43 1147/382
D1-1300Z - - - 63/6 81/10 144/16 1291/398
D1-1400Z - - - 59/7 86/10 145/17 1436/415
D1-1500Z - - - 56/7 40/18 96/25 1532/440
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- 3/0 28/2 21/5 52/7 1584/447
D1-1700Z - - 39/5 49/9 - 88/14 1672/461 35
D1-1800Z - - - 48/12 36/14 84/26 1756/487
D1-1900Z - - - 52/7 29/11 81/18 1837/505
D1-2000Z - - - 39/8 27/10 66/18 1903/523
D1-2100Z - - 66/3 1/0 22/3 89/6 1992/529
D1-2200Z - - 34/5 42/4 6/2 82/11 2074/540
D1-2300Z - 26/3 18/4 44/7 - 88/14 2162/554
D2-0000Z --+-- 54/4 19/2 7/0 2/1 82/7 2244/561
D2-0100Z 6/0 33/4 19/4 - - 58/8 2302/569
D2-0200Z 51/11 38/6 - - - 89/17 2391/586
D2-0300Z 12/2 44/2 11/7 - - 67/11 2458/597
D2-0400Z 47/6 2/0 3/0 - - 52/6 2510/603
D2-0500Z 38/3 4/1 - - - 42/4 2552/607 26
D2-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 2552/607 60
D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 2552/607 60
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2552/607 60
D2-0900Z 5/0 1/0 - - - 6/0 2558/607 55
D2-1000Z 7/2 19/4 21/1 - - 47/7 2605/614
D2-1100Z - 20/0 48/0 24/0 - 92/0 2697/614
D2-1200Z - - 27/4 57/4 - 84/8 2781/622
D2-1300Z - - 1/0 39/4 7/3 47/7 2828/629
D2-1400Z - - 10/1 50/1 1/1 61/3 2889/632
D2-1500Z - - - 57/2 15/3 72/5 2961/637
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 49/1 29/2 78/3 3039/640
D2-1700Z - - 16/1 26/2 8/4 50/7 3089/647
D2-1800Z - - 44/0 47/2 - 91/2 3180/649
D2-1900Z - - 49/2 37/1 - 86/3 3266/652
D2-2000Z - - 37/0 8/1 17/7 62/8 3328/660
D2-2100Z - 6/0 57/0 - 4/0 67/0 3395/660
D2-2200Z - 25/0 15/3 - - 40/3 3435/663
D2-2300Z - 16/1 35/2 6/0 2/0 59/3 3494/666
Total: 316/95 663/130 900/1481102/158 513/135
Best 60 minutes: 182 starting at 23-Sep-2023 12:16
Worked on 5 bands (54)
9A1A 9A5Y AA3B AA5AU C37N CR3DX CR3W DA0BCC DA0RR DD5M DH0GHU DJ3NG DK9IP DL1RTL
DL6JZ DL8TG DP6A DP6K DP7D DP9A DR3W EA4BAS ED7B EE4Y F8CRS G2U I4VEQ IQ3RK
IQ4FC K1AR K1SFA K5RZA K9CT KI1G KW1X LN8W LZ5R LZ6K N0UR N6WM NP4Z P49X PI4CC
PI4COM S50W S56A SN7Q SP50UUU TM3Z US8ICM UW1M W0LSD W6SX YO9HP
Worked on 4 bands (94)
Most worked entities
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
K 166 287 239 209 105 1006
DL 44 62 122 168 91 487
I 6 41 78 98 38 261
SP 5 26 31 52 12 126
EA 6 18 26 37 31 118
PA 8 11 34 40 13 106
G 3 16 26 46 12 103
F 8 11 23 23 18 83
VE 14 30 13 15 9 81
JA 1 30 35 66
OK 3 9 19 22 13 66
UR 3 10 14 25 9 61
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