[3830] ARRLDX CW K5ZD SOAB HP
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Mon Feb 21 10:47:20 EST 2005
ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 33
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 115 50
80: 449 71
40: 523 76
20: 1143 86
15: 856 84
10: 64 36
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Total: 3150 403 Total Score = 3,808,350
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
With W4PA operating from here for the past few years, I had forgotten how much
fun ARRL DX CW can be. I have been travelling a lot for work so told Scott that
I didn't want the pressure of having to get the station ready. Decided I would
just play around instead.
How to have fun in a contest
First, you have to be cooking dinner when the contest starts. This immediately
removes all pressure to feel or be competitive. I did sneak into the shack and
do some S&P on 40m during the first hour while the kids were watching TV.
Then take 3 hours off to put the 2 year old through the bath, stories, and bed
process. Fall asleep waiting for her to fall asleep.
Wake up and go to shack to turn radios off. Can't resist listening and find low
bands really good. Proceed to work next 4.5 hours until finally make myself go
to bed. Set alarm to wake up for sunrise (addiction beginning to take over).
Wake up 15 mins after sunrise and go to 20m. Band is rocking and have 178 hour
followed by switch to 15m for 196 hour. My wife asks me to watch kids while she
goes to vet. Take 3 hours off.
Back on at 16z and bands still rocking. Operate next 6 hours until time to cook
dinner. Another two hours off.
Fun inside fun
Decide that I need something for motivation. Go to ARRL web page and sort last
year's results for USA SOAB High Power. See that my score at that moment would
place me in 65th place for previous year. Decide to set goal to see how far up
the list I can move.
With this mini-contest and the great conditions, I proceed to operate next 18
hours without stopping. Was planning to go to bed until I found 20m wide open
at 09z.
Finally, after enjoying the brief 10m opening and with 15m still wide open, I
decide that I really should stop operating and go back to the family. Had
managed to get up to 13th place based on last year's scores, so maybe will be
close to the Top Ten.
See everyone in ARRL Phone...
*** The Numbers ***
The best 60 minute rate was 209/hour from 1315 to 1414. This is my personal best
hour ever from the USA.
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
00Z --+-- --+-- 23/17 --+-- --+-- --+-- 23/17 23/17 46
01Z - - 31/6 5/5 - - 36/11 59/28 39
02Z - - - - - - 0/0 59/28 60
03Z - - - - - - 0/0 59/28 60
04Z 8/6 86/23 9/6 1/1 - - 104/36 163/64 4
05Z 46/22 14/5 - - - - 60/27 223/91
06Z 5/1 97/10 - - - - 102/11 325/102
07Z 10/6 23/16 21/9 - - - 54/31 379/133
08Z 5/5 10/1 71/11 --+-- --+-- --+-- 86/17 465/150
09Z - 1/1 10/0 - - - 11/1 476/151 51
10Z - - - - - - 0/0 476/151 60
11Z - - 6/5 13/10 - - 19/15 495/166 46
12Z - - 1/0 177/31 - - 178/31 673/197
13Z - - - 31/3 165/36 - 196/39 869/236
14Z - - - - 64/3 - 64/3 933/239 41
15Z - - - - 2/0 - 2/0 935/239 59
16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 1/0 84/9 18/15 103/24 1038/263
17Z - - - 26/1 104/3 1/1 131/5 1169/268
18Z - - - 74/1 31/4 - 105/5 1274/273
19Z - - - 128/10 5/4 - 133/14 1407/287
20Z - - - 73/1 11/6 5/1 89/8 1496/295
21Z - - - 54/8 8/4 - 62/12 1558/307
22Z - - 44/2 8/1 18/7 - 70/10 1628/317
23Z - - 33/2 1/0 - - 34/2 1662/319 45
00Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1662/319 60
01Z 12/3 - 7/1 10/4 - - 29/8 1691/327 20
02Z - 60/4 10/1 - - - 70/5 1761/332
03Z 14/2 2/0 34/6 - - - 50/8 1811/340
04Z 7/0 28/1 28/0 - - - 63/1 1874/341
05Z 4/3 79/2 - - - - 83/5 1957/346
06Z 2/0 39/1 11/3 - - - 52/4 2009/350
07Z - 3/2 87/0 - - - 90/2 2099/352
08Z --+-- 4/3 77/4 5/0 --+-- --+-- 86/7 2185/359
09Z - - 9/1 120/1 - - 129/2 2314/361
10Z 2/2 3/2 7/1 38/1 - - 50/6 2364/367
11Z - - 4/1 91/1 2/0 - 97/2 2461/369
12Z - - - 112/2 3/0 - 115/2 2576/371
13Z - - - 79/2 12/3 2/2 93/7 2669/378
14Z - - - 80/2 1/0 - 81/2 2750/380
15Z - - - 16/1 106/1 - 122/2 2872/382
16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 101/0 16/10 117/10 2989/392
17Z - - - - 92/3 14/6 106/9 3095/401
18Z - - - - 47/1 8/1 55/2 3150/403 12
Tot: 115/50 449/71 523/76 1143/86 856/84 64/36
CW is alive and well in Europe!
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 88 407 459 1023 788 23 2788 88.5
SA 5 11 16 16 16 14 78 2.5
NA 21 20 20 19 28 20 128 4.1
AF 0 4 2 8 9 6 29 0.9
OC 1 4 5 6 2 1 19 0.6
AS 0 3 21 70 13 0 107 3.4
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
CU2M DL3YM 8P5A PJ2T 9Y4W V26G
P49Y PS2T PJ4R IR2C G4BUO V47Z
FM5BH F6KHM EI5DI V31TP PJ7/ND5S
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