[3830] CQWW CW K5ZD SOAB HP
Jim White, K4OJ
k4oj at tampabay.rr.com
Mon Dec 1 17:34:33 EST 2003
PROOF POSITIVE
you can take Randall out of the contest but you cannot take the contest
out of Randall!
K4OJ
webform at b4h.net wrote:
> CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
>
> Call: K5ZD
> Operator(s): K5ZD
> Station: K5ZD
>
> Class: SOAB HP
> QTH: MA
> Operating Time (hrs): 32
> Radios: SO2R
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs Zones Countries
> ------------------------------
> 160: 22 8 18
> 80: 289 16 70
> 40: 726 30 93
> 20: 753 34 109
> 15: 756 29 101
> 10: 628 29 96
> ------------------------------
> Total: 3174 146 487 Total Score = 5,834,994
>
> Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> A truly fun weekend!
>
> With a heavy work travel schedule and trying to take two MBA classes, I let my
> wife talk me into not doing the contest seriously. Operated the first 3 hours
> and then went to bed. Woke up early, did some DXing on the low bands and then
> CQed for awhile. Took the dog for a walk and ran some errands. Worked more
> guys. Then went off to meet a classmate to work on a school project. Came back
> and had dinner. Now almost 23 hours into the contest and I had already taken 12
> hours off.
>
> Decided to see how the bands were. Still good! Decided I would stay up late
> and see what I had missed by sleeping the first night. Set goal of working 300
> countries. Finally made myself quit at 3AM and went to bed. By now, the
> contest bug is starting to bite. Woke up 3 hours later and decided to crank up
> the QSO machine and see what I could do to get the QSO totals respectable on all
> bands. At the 24 hour mark of operating time I had 4Meg. Almost quit then, but
> still having too much fun.
>
> Still 8 hours of the contest to go. Can't stop because YCCC president N1XS has
> exhorted everyone to keep their butt in the chair. Got this crazy idea that
> maybe I could sneak into the Top Ten box. Kept CQing and doing the SO2R thing.
> Score kept going up. Ended with an exhilarating run on 7000.6.
>
> Almost wish I had done the whole thing, but probably wouldn't have had as much
> fun. Winning CQ WW is hard. You have to keep pushing all the time and make sure
> you get good frequencies on the hot band. There is no time to rest or relax.
> By sleeping the first night, I had no pressure and was able to go DXing when I
> got tired of CQing. It actually helped me be more on the right band than if I
> had been trying. Not to mention how much more fun (and accurate) it is to
> operate with enough sleep.
>
> Only ran into a few packet piles. Most of the time I would just keep tuning.
> Did work TO4WW on 40. Had no idea where it was other than zone 39. Turns out
> to be an ALL TIME new one for me! (He was listening up 1-2 KHz and it was
> exactly the right thing to do. Who says you can't work split in a contest?)
>
> 7S2E was still loud on 40m at 1130Z. Wow. On Sunday morning, 40m was the best
> I have ever heard over the pole to Japan. 40 was wall to wall all the way up to
> 7100. My best runs Sat night were on 7085 and 7076.
>
> Managed to work 2 JA stations on 80 Saturday morning.
>
> 160 was funny. Heard lots of stuff Friday night but it couldn't hear me.
> Saturday managed to work a few Eu, but it wasn't worth it. Didn't matter
> because 80 and 40 were so good.
>
> Overall operating was excellent. No real frequency fights. Less than the usual
> number of dupes. Most people got my call right. Didn't seem like I got spotted
> as KH7D this year.
>
> As always, amazing how many stations made big QSO totals that I never even
> heard. Was really searching for N5TJ at KP3Z and only worked him on 1 band! He
> had over 6000 QSOs! Worked VP9I, A45XR, and JY8YB on only one band. ZD8Z on 2
> bands. Heard A61AJ on 160, but only worked him on 2 bands. That's part of what
> makes this contest great. But also why packet is such an advantage of the
> multi-ops. It is just too easy for the good stuff to get lost in the noise.
>
> Breakdown below. I assume rates were better than normal on day 2 because I
> hadn't worked everyone on day 1.
>
> QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
>
> Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
> OffTime
>
> 0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 71/58 11/6 --+-- 82/64 82/64
> 0100Z - - 85/56 24/12 2/2 - 111/70 193/134
> 0200Z 3/6 50/36 4/1 16/14 - - 73/57 266/191
> 0300Z 1/2 50/10 11/7 4/4 - - 66/23 332/214 10
> 0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 332/214 60
> 0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 332/214 60
> 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 332/214 60
> 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 332/214 60
> 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 332/214 60
> 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 332/214 60
> 1000Z 1/1 13/11 14/13 - - - 28/25 360/239 22
> 1100Z 3/5 3/3 10/5 28/5 58/23 - 102/41 462/280
> 1200Z - - - 9/5 164/20 4/6 177/31 639/311
> 1300Z - - - - 21/5 127/38 148/43 787/354
> 1400Z - - - - 79/9 51/7 130/16 917/370 5
> 1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 917/370 60
> 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 917/370 60
> 1700Z - - - 63/9 5/2 32/24 100/35 1017/405 6
> 1800Z - - - 91/4 39/23 1/2 131/29 1148/434
> 1900Z - - - - - 6/5 6/5 1154/439 55
> 2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1154/439 60
> 2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 1154/439 60
> 2200Z - - - - 1/2 9/8 10/10 1164/449 47
> 2300Z - - 35/8 20/3 13/4 4/0 72/15 1236/464
> 0000Z --+-- --+-- 81/18 7/5 --+-- --+-- 88/23 1324/487
> 0100Z 7/7 33/4 20/0 2/0 - - 62/11 1386/498
> 0200Z - 35/6 28/4 - - - 63/10 1449/508
> 0300Z 6/4 43/6 6/0 1/1 - - 56/11 1505/519
> 0400Z - 17/3 67/4 4/2 - - 88/9 1593/528
> 0500Z - 22/4 91/3 - - - 113/7 1706/535
> 0600Z - 10/2 62/0 2/1 - - 74/3 1780/538
> 0700Z - 6/1 81/2 3/1 - - 90/4 1870/542
> 0800Z 1/1 5/0 8/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 14/1 1884/543 43
> 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1884/543 60
> 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1884/543 60
> 1100Z - 2/0 9/2 2/0 - - 13/2 1897/545 38
> 1200Z - - - 101/9 30/8 - 131/17 2028/562
> 1300Z - - - - 16/1 140/9 156/10 2184/572
> 1400Z - - - - 14/2 132/5 146/7 2330/579
> 1500Z - - - - 67/3 78/3 145/6 2475/585
> 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 130/2 8/3 138/5 2613/590
> 1700Z - - - 48/0 56/2 8/1 112/3 2725/593
> 1800Z - - - 109/2 18/7 1/0 128/9 2853/602
> 1900Z - - - 52/3 6/0 15/4 73/7 2926/609 10
> 2000Z - - - 26/0 8/7 5/4 39/11 2965/620 20
> 2100Z - - 11/0 36/3 4/0 3/2 54/5 3019/625
> 2200Z - - 35/0 10/1 14/2 4/4 63/7 3082/632
> 2300Z - - 68/0 24/1 - - 92/1 3174/633
> Total: 22/26 289/86 726/123 753/143 756/130 628/125
>
>
> Yes, as this score shows, contesting isn't fair. Only the New England advantage
> makes it possible to do this well part time when far more worthy efforts out
> West have lower scores.
>
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