[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
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160: 96 54
80: 639 85
40: 1120 103
20: 1331 103
15: 750 103
10: 36 22
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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
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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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