[3830] CQWW SSB K5ZD SOAB HP

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Mon Oct 27 12:41:41 EDT 2008


                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

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

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 44.5
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  112    14       55
   80:  412    21       86
   40:  771    27      100
   20: 1905    36      127
   15:  462    23       90
   10:   44     6       12
------------------------------
Total: 3706   127      470  Total Score = 6,303,126

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Wow.  The CQ WW is so big and has so much activity that it doesn't seem to
matter what conditions we have.  

Activity Report

Only motivation for doing the contest was to gather a few more WRTC qualifying
points.  Also wanted to give K1DG some competition to see how his station
improvements were going.  Then learned that N2NT was going to be at K1EA.

First night was almost all S&P.  A few short runs on 75m listening split.

Took a 90 minute nap even though I wasn't tired.  Mostly needed a break to
mentally recharge and wanted to be awake for the rate on the high bands.

Normally it is easy to find a frequency on 20 when the band opens.  We are
first to get the sun here in North America so we are first on the band.  This
year, 20 was so crowded that it was already packed with stations as the band
opened -- often 2 or more per frequency!  I don't think I ever had a "clear"
run frequency on 20m until Sunday when 15m opened and some of the activity went
there.

15m was open the first morning but never really runnable.  I mostly called
stations on the second radio.  Had a good mult, but only 159 QSOs after day 1.

Very nice run on 40m transceive during the 21-22z hours.  When that stopped,
there was almost nothing to do for next 6 hours but tune around and call
anything I could find.  

At 24 hour mark, I had 2055/107/380 for 2.8M. This predicted a final score of
6.25M (usual rule is double the score plus 10%). Very happy with the mult, so
knew it was going to be a challenge unless 15m opened.  The winning score from
2007 was 6.3M and conditions didn't seem as good this year.

Rain came in and created bad rain static from 04z to 06z.  My original plan had
been to sleep 4.5 hours the second night and I almost used the rain static as an
excuse to go to bed.  However, kept thinking that if K1DG or N2NT beat me
because I slept...

At 07z I was hearing loud European signals on 40m.  Decided to call CQ and had
the most amazing run and conditions I have ever heard on that opening.  The
Northern Eu signals were very loud and there was no fading.  It sounded like 20
meters!  Finally made myself stop and take a one hour sleep even though I could
have made it through.  Again, knew I wanted to have some rest before attacking
20 meters.

Sunday morning I again had to fight for a frequency on 20.  With so little
sleep I was having trouble copying whole callsigns.  A rapid QSB didn't help. 
Many stations would say their call multiple times and I would miss the same
part each time!  

Heard 15m open to DL and quickly jumped to that band.  Nice run for 2 hours and
then it turned off like a switch.  The line of propagation was at Northern
Spain. South of that was loud all day.  North was non-existant.

Went back to 20m and continued to grind it out.  Never would have expected to
make 1900 contacts on a band that was so crowded.

>From W1, 10m always seems to open to the Carribbean in the 18z hour so was
checking it often.  We had about 1 good hour of propagation and even the
northern Carribean (like KP2M) were loud for a few minutes.

After that, the rest of the contest was a matter of pressing F1 over and over. 
Found some good African mults on 20.  Very very nice loud JA run around 21z. 
Then back to 40m for a another short run.

160 was the best of the contest during the last 15 minutes.  RU6LA was almost
S9 on the meter!  All the Europeans could be easily worked on the first call. 
UU7J and AO8A were two new mults for a very nice finish.

Worked on 5 bands: 8P5A, KP2M, PJ4E, TO4X, V26B.  (Had 88 stations on 4
bands.)

Comments

For the first time, it was possible to call CQ below 3700 and work Europe
transceive...  I predict this will continue to grow.

The change on 40m of Europe working above 7100 and the broadcast going away
will make this band like 20m in the future.  Great signals, but difficult to
find a frequency!  Never expected to make 800+ QSOs on the band!!

We need to decide on a strategy as a group for how to handle the stations that
splatter.  They are going to ruin the fun of contesting for everyone if we
don't find a way to make it just as painful for them to splatter as it is for
us to hear it.  I am not suggesting we interfere with them, but peer pressure
needs to be applied in real-time.

We can all hope that some sunspots return, because not sure 20m can handle this
level of crowding.  Reminds me of when I lived in Japan and they would hold a
domestic contest on 40 meters.  So many stations all you could hear was white
noise.

Audio streaming was running all weekend.  Have the recording files and will
post them to the web site in the coming weeks.  It was not the best contest for
listening.  Poor rates and many of the QSOs are almost unintelligible in the
QRM.

Continents

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

    EU      46    314    638   1537    324      0    2859    77.1
    SA       6     12     37     56     69     36     216     5.8
    NA      54     64     64    115     45      8     350     9.4
    AS       0      7     12    146      8      0     173     4.7
    AF       6     11     11     38     10      0      76     2.1
    OC       0      4      9     13      6      0      32     0.9

Rates

QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band

GMT   160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm     Off

00Z  --+--   --+--   66/43   25/17   --+--   --+--   91/60     91/60  
01Z   9/14   33/30   25/9     6/2      -       -     73/55    164/115 
02Z    -     41/26   25/12     -       -       -     66/38    230/153 
03Z  30/17   23/10    1/0      -       -       -     54/27    284/180 
04Z    -     68/6    10/8      -       -       -     78/14    362/194 
05Z  23/11   39/1     8/5      -       -       -     70/17    432/211 
06Z   2/3    46/18    6/2      -       -       -     54/23    486/234 
07Z   2/1    14/2    11/4      -       -       -     27/7     513/241 
08Z  --+--    8/1     6/6    --+--   --+--   --+--   14/7     527/248    36
09Z    -      1/0      -       -       -       -      1/0     528/248    59
10Z    -      1/2     6/5    65/35     -       -     72/42    600/290 
11Z    -       -       -    138/18    8/10     -    146/28    746/318 
12Z    -       -       -    125/5    13/8      -    138/13    884/331 
13Z    -       -       -     82/4    35/17     -    117/21   1001/352 
14Z    -       -       -     91/3    17/11     -    108/14   1109/366 
15Z    -       -       -    107/2    14/4      -    121/6    1230/372 
16Z  --+--   --+--   --+--  124/7    11/14   --+--  135/21   1365/393 
17Z    -       -       -    112/3    10/8      -    122/11   1487/404 
18Z    -       -       -     70/7     8/4     2/2    80/13   1567/417    15
19Z    -       -       -     94/5    14/6     1/2   109/13   1676/430 
20Z    -       -       -     82/27   18/4      -    100/31   1776/461 
21Z    -       -     94/8     9/2     5/0      -    108/10   1884/471 
22Z    -      4/0    78/5     2/0     6/2     1/2    91/9    1975/480 
23Z    -      5/0    73/4     5/3      -       -     83/7    2058/487 
00Z   7/4    --+--    1/0     2/1    --+--   --+--   10/5    2068/492    33
01Z   2/1    52/4     4/0      -       -       -     58/5    2126/497 
02Z   6/6     3/0     6/0      -       -       -     15/6    2141/503 
03Z   5/1    22/1     1/0      -       -       -     28/2    2169/505 
04Z   6/5     9/1      -       -       -       -     15/6    2184/511 
05Z  11/3     8/1      -       -       -       -     19/4    2203/515 
06Z   1/0      -     67/4      -       -       -     68/4    2271/519 
07Z    -      4/0   107/2      -       -       -    111/2    2382/521 
08Z   1/0     9/2    62/1    --+--   --+--   --+--   72/3    2454/524 
09Z    -       -      1/1      -       -       -      1/1    2455/525    56
10Z   1/0      -      5/0    21/0      -       -     27/0    2482/525    11
11Z    -       -      6/2    81/0      -       -     87/2    2569/527 
12Z    -       -       -     55/0    80/8      -    135/8    2704/535 
13Z    -       -       -      7/1   157/6      -    164/7    2868/542 
14Z    -       -       -     52/0    21/1      -     73/1    2941/543 
15Z    -       -       -    121/0     2/1      -    123/1    3064/544 
16Z  --+--   --+--   --+--  120/2     3/0    --+--  123/2    3187/546 
17Z    -       -       -    101/5     6/0     2/1   109/6    3296/552 
18Z    -       -       -     21/4    11/3    29/10   61/17   3357/569 
19Z    -       -       -     54/5     9/3     7/1    70/9    3427/578 
20Z    -       -      1/0    30/2    14/3     2/0    47/5    3474/583 
21Z    -       -      5/1    85/2      -       -     90/3    3564/586 
22Z    -      1/1    90/5     4/0      -       -     95/6    3659/592 
23Z   6/3    21/1     6/0    14/1      -       -     47/5    3706/597 

    112/69  412/107 771/127 1905/163 462/113  44/18 


Best hour: 201 QSOs from 1239-1338z on day 2 (15m to Europe)

Most worked countries:

    DL       2     47    111    236     61            457
     I       1     24     87    162     46            320
    EA       2     30     53    106     25            216
     G       3     21     60    123      5            212
    UA       2     11     19    110      7            149
    SP       2     15     34     67     12            130
     F       3     21      9     68     21            122
     K      13      7     29     47      7      2     105
    VE      26     32     11     28      7            104
    OK       2     13     17     47     16             95
    PA       3     11     24     52      6             96
    UR       1      6     14     55      5             81
    JA                           73                    73
    ON       2      7     18     37      2             66

See everyone on CW!


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