[3830] ARRLDX CW K5ZD M/S HP

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Mon Feb 20 09:12:08 EST 2006


                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD, N5KO
Station: K5ZD

Class: M/S HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   96    54
   80:  639    85
   40: 1120   103
   20: 1331   103
   15:  750   103
   10:   36    22
-------------------
Total: 3972   470  Total Score = 5,600,520

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Trey, N5KO, was in Boston on business and accepted the invitation to do a
multi-single effort.  Trey did most of the operating and we had a great time
doing a "tag team" effort.  I.e., one guy operated until he was tired and then
tag, the other op was "it"!

Conditions were excellent here in 'New Europe'.  We spent most of our time
running or CQing, because the 6 band change per hour restriction limited the
ability to chase QSOs or multipliers on the less active bands.  There were many
hours we would save our band changes and then do all 6 in the last 10 minutes. 
Note to ARRL CAC: Please change rule to allow 10 band changes per hour!

160 - Conditions were very good.  HA5JI was consistently the loudest European. 
Didn't seem to be much activity as we got very few answers to CQs.

80 - Good both nights, although we probably didn't spend enough time there on
Friday night.  Made up for it on Sat night. Happy to work JA2ZJW on Sunday
morning. Very nice signals from Europe during the last hour.  Heard HS0ZDJ on LP
very strong during that time, but he wasn't hearing anyone.

40 - Open all the time it seemed.  Amazing how far past European sunrise we
could still get answers to CQs.  At one point on Sunday morning I was working
Europe and had a very loud HS0ZDJ call on LP (from the southwest)!

20 - Opened right on schedule both days with excellent European signals. 
Usually the band with the highest multiplier, 20 was lagging 40 and 15 until the
last hour of the contest!

15 - Went to 15 early on Sat morning because couldn't believe the band was so
open, or that it would be so good the second day.  It ended up being better than
expected both days.  Even had several VU and HS0 call in on Sunday afternoon. 
No JA on Fri or Sat, but the big JA stations had good signals on Sun right to
the end of the contest.

10 - Ugh.  2 QSOs on Sat (CU2A and LR2F).  Band opened better on Sunday, but the
Carribbean and Central America never got very loud so it took time to work
through each pileup.  Causing some difficult band change decisions since 20 was
still runnable to Europe at the time.

We had one equipment failure.  The 40m beam became intermittent on receive
Sunday morning. Seemed to be OK on transmit, but there is a loose connection or
broken coax connector shield out there somewhere. Way tooooo cold to figure it
out now!

With 4 hours to go, we were hoping to break 4000 QSOs.  Unfortunately, the
mental wheels came off (or we ran out of people to work) and we limped home with
some pretty slow hours.  The 40m beam problem caused us not to stay committed to
40m as much as we probably should have, but its hard to keep calling CQ when you
aren't getting any answers!

Not as many bad signals this year as in the past, but still too many. 
Especially from some very large (and loud) Eastern European stations.  Only a
few lid frequency fights.

I don't normally get to use Packet so it was interesting to see how it helped
and hurt the score.  Since we could only get one operator at the radio at a time
(this is an SO2R station - not multi-op), we relied on packet a lot to be the
"second op".  With all the busted calls, sometimes it was dangerous as the
station we found was not the call that was spotted.  Amazing to see how fast one
spot could instantly bring hundreds of frenzied contesters to one frequency! 
Even so, we almost always could find more QSOs (and even new mults) by tuning
around ourselves.  The worst case was on Sunday when several spots blew our call
sign (KH7D and K5ZB).  The KH7D resulted in lots of W/VE calling us (many of
them were stations that should have been able to copy our CW and known
better...) and K5ZB bringing a round of European dupes.

Thanks to all the DX stations that spend time to give us so much fun!

Special thanks to P40W, 8P9PA, and the other DX stations who signed their call
on a regular basis...

The Numbers

 Hour     160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm 

D1-0000Z  --+--   10/9   122/34   --+--   --+--   --+--  132/43    132/43  
D1-0100Z    -     29/11   44/6      -       -       -     73/17    205/60  
D1-0200Z    -     68/12   22/2      -       -       -     90/14    295/74  
D1-0300Z   2/2    72/22     -       -       -       -     74/24    369/98  
D1-0400Z  36/28    5/0    17/3     3/3      -       -     61/34    430/132 
D1-0500Z  13/8     2/1    80/3      -       -       -     95/12    525/144 
D1-0600Z   8/3    41/4    22/10     -       -       -     71/17    596/161 
D1-0700Z    -      1/1   104/4      -       -       -    105/5     701/166 
D1-0800Z   1/1     2/2    62/4    --+--   --+--   --+--   65/7     766/173 
D1-0900Z    -      1/1    59/3    35/14     -       -     95/18    861/191 
D1-1000Z    -       -       -    155/18     -       -    155/18   1016/209 
D1-1100Z    -       -      3/3   189/17     -       -    192/20   1208/229 
D1-1200Z    -       -       -     37/1   141/36     -    178/37   1386/266 
D1-1300Z    -       -       -       -    164/11     -    164/11   1550/277 
D1-1400Z    -       -       -       -    115/5     1/1   116/6    1666/283 
D1-1500Z    -       -       -     26/2    54/18     -     80/20   1746/303 
D1-1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--  128/1     3/3    --+--  131/4    1877/307 
D1-1700Z    -       -       -     81/8     3/3      -     84/11   1961/318 
D1-1800Z    -       -       -     60/8     1/1     1/1    62/10   2023/328 
D1-1900Z    -       -     30/1    19/10   17/6      -     66/17   2089/345 
D1-2000Z    -       -     59/1     3/2      -       -     62/3    2151/348 
D1-2100Z    -       -     86/1     2/2     1/1      -     89/4    2240/352 
D1-2200Z    -      1/1    74/3     2/2      -       -     77/6    2317/358 
D1-2300Z    -     61/0    30/2     2/2      -       -     93/4    2410/362 
D2-0000Z   1/1    57/6     9/9    --+--   --+--   --+--   67/16   2477/378 
D2-0100Z   5/1    33/3     3/2      -       -       -     41/6    2518/384 
D2-0200Z  15/1     6/0    25/0      -       -       -     46/1    2564/385 
D2-0300Z    -     37/1      -      1/1      -       -     38/2    2602/387 
D2-0400Z   9/3    20/1    15/2      -       -       -     44/6    2646/393 
D2-0500Z   2/2    58/4    13/0      -       -       -     73/6    2719/399 
D2-0600Z   2/2    64/1     1/1      -       -       -     67/4    2786/403 
D2-0700Z    -     12/0    69/1      -       -       -     81/1    2867/404 
D2-0800Z  --+--    1/1    56/0    --+--   --+--   --+--   57/1    2924/405 
D2-0900Z   1/1      -     57/2      -       -       -     58/3    2982/408 
D2-1000Z   1/1     4/2    21/3      -       -       -     26/6    3008/414 
D2-1100Z    -       -      4/1   103/1      -       -    107/2    3115/416 
D2-1200Z    -      1/1     1/1   124/4     1/1      -    127/7    3242/423 
D2-1300Z    -       -       -     21/0   101/2      -    122/2    3364/425 
D2-1400Z    -       -       -       -     87/6      -     87/6    3451/431 
D2-1500Z    -       -       -     45/1    29/3     1/1    75/5    3526/436 
D2-1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   86/1    --+--    1/0    87/1    3613/437 
D2-1700Z    -       -       -     54/1     3/3    14/9    71/13   3684/450 
D2-1800Z    -       -       -     35/0     3/0    14/8    52/8    3736/458 
D2-1900Z    -       -      5/0    48/1     2/2     3/2    58/5    3794/463 
D2-2000Z    -       -      4/0    35/1     1/0     1/0    41/1    3835/464 
D2-2100Z    -       -     12/1    11/0    13/2      -     36/3    3871/467 
D2-2200Z    -       -     11/0    25/1    11/0      -     47/1    3918/468 
D2-2300Z    -     53/1      -      1/1      -       -     54/2    3972/470 

Total:    96/54  639/85 1120/1031331/103 750/103  36/22 

The best 60 minute rate was 194/hour from 1104 to 1203
The best 30 minute rate was 202/hour from 1127 to 1156
The best 10 minute rate was 216/hour from 1127 to 1136

          160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total      %

    EU      65    584   1033   1195    650      1    3528    88.8
    AF       1      6     13     15     18      1      54     1.4
    AS       1      8     25     76     25      0     135     3.4
    NA      23     26     26     25     29     16     145     3.7
    SA       6     12     15     14     19     18      84     2.1
    OC       0      3      8      6      9      0      26     0.7

"Only" 88% Europe...  most worked countries were

          160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total
    DL      14     82    163    202    102            563
    OK       2     59     75     79     55            270
     G       4     49     89     91     21            254
    UA       1     44     68     96     44            253
     I       3     21     69     72     66            231

Multi-band QSO's
----------------
1 bands    1486
2 bands     422
3 bands     269
4 bands     152
5 bands      25
6 bands      17

(During the contest I would have thought we had many more multi-band QSOs as it
seemed many stations were on 3 or 4 bands, but guess not!)

The following stations were worked on 6 bands:

V31PP       CU2A        J7OJ        VP2MVX      TI5N        TO9A        
WP2Z        8P9PA       P49Y        VP9/W6PH    PJ4R        P40W        
PJ2T        HI3TEJ      HQ9H        FG/N0YY     V26G


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