[3830] WPX CW AK1W(K5ZD) SOAB HP

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Sun May 31 18:23:34 PDT 2009


                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: AK1W
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:    3
   80:  155
   40:  940
   20: 1631
   15:  492
   10:   18
------------
Total: 3239  Prefixes = 986  Total Score = 9,447,852

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

First off, my sincere congratulations to Alex at KC3R and Dick WC1M. They beat
me straight up.  I have some stories, but no excuses.  Great job guys!

Wasn't planning to operate the contest.  Sat down 30 mins before and decided I
would operate the first evening so I could compare notes with WC1M after it was
over.  I had no real plan and didn't even tell my wife I was going to be doing a
contest.

Slept 3 hours each night.  Used my breaks in the day to walk the dog. 

I had a few periods where signals from Europe got weak and I couldn't do
anything but tune around and call guys.  I think my lack of mental prep had me
playing DXer a bit too much.  Comparing breakdowns, it appears I spent too much
time enjoying the quiet on 15 meters rather than fighting for QSOs on 20m.  Same
with trying to run on 80m instead of on 40m.

On Sat morning, I opened the score database on cqwpx.com and filtered to only
show single op all band high power scores for W1.  I made it my mission to keep
working until I had passed the score of the next call on the list.  Was up into
the top 25 scores by the 18 hours of operation mark, so that's when I decided
to push all the way to 36 hours.  Its a fun way to keep motivated.  Ended up
getting past the #1 score, but so did Alex and Dick.  :(

I thought the quality of operating was superb.  Very few guys who couldn't send
their number in a coherent way.

Activity and conditions were great.  Nice to hear 20m open all night!  Seemed
like an endless number of European Russian and Ukraine stations to work on all
bands.  Fantastic opening to Japan on 20m this morning, but where were they?

I even got to use my European stack on 10 meters when I worked AO3T this
afternoon.  That was a pleasant suprise!

I think the extra weekend in May helped USA activity by moving the contest off
of the holiday weekend.  I was impressed how many stations I worked that had
numbers well over 1000 so activity must have been good everywhere.  

Some numbers.

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

    EU       0     82    540    934    182      1    1739    53.7
    AF       0      4      3     13      7      0      27     0.8
    NA       3     63    354    526    263     17    1226    37.9
    AS       0      0     14    135      5      0     154     4.8
    OC       0      2     12      5      5      0      24     0.7
    SA       0      4     17     18     30      0      69     2.1

QSO/Pref by hour and band

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

0000Z  --+--   --+--  124/109  17/13   --+--   --+--  141/122   141/122 
0100Z    -       -     26/23  117/82     -       -    143/105   284/227 
0200Z    -       -     44/32   90/40     -       -    134/72    418/299 
0300Z    -     53/22   47/20     -       -       -    100/42    518/341 
0400Z    -      8/3   115/56    1/0      -       -    124/59    642/400 
0500Z   2/0     6/4    68/38   10/2      -       -     86/44    728/444 
0600Z    -       -       -      4/4      -       -      4/4     732/448    57
0700Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     732/448    60
0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0     732/448    60
0900Z    -       -      2/2      -       -       -      2/2     734/450    58
1000Z    -       -     20/15   29/11   36/7      -     85/33    819/483 
1100Z    -       -       -    127/55    9/2      -    136/57    955/540 
1200Z    -       -       -     48/11   56/8      -    104/19   1059/559 
1300Z    -       -       -     22/7    54/13   11/3    87/23   1146/582 
1400Z    -       -       -     69/24   26/2      -     95/26   1241/608 
1500Z    -       -       -     31/12   77/17     -    108/29   1349/637 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   33/6    19/2    --+--   52/8    1401/645    12
1700Z    -       -       -      7/3     1/0      -      8/3    1409/648    60
1800Z    -       -       -     63/11    9/3      -     72/14   1481/662 
1900Z    -       -       -     90/18    2/1      -     92/19   1573/681 
2000Z    -       -       -     93/24     -       -     93/24   1666/705 
2100Z    -       -       -     79/26    2/1      -     81/27   1747/732 
2200Z    -       -       -    116/28     -      3/1   119/29   1866/761 
2300Z    -       -     11/1    90/16    3/1      -    104/18   1970/779 
0000Z  --+--   --+--  116/14    2/1    --+--   --+--  118/15   2088/794 
0100Z   1/0     4/1    92/13    3/1     2/2      -    102/17   2190/811 
0200Z    -     29/2    74/7      -       -       -    103/9    2293/820 
0300Z    -     37/4    27/5    13/2      -       -     77/11   2370/831 
0400Z    -      3/2    63/6     6/2      -       -     72/10   2442/841 
0500Z    -     12/1    32/9      -       -       -     44/10   2486/851    25
0600Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2486/851    60
0700Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2486/851    60
0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    2486/851    60
0900Z    -      3/0     2/1    11/5      -       -     16/6    2502/857    41
1000Z    -       -     12/3    45/8     2/0      -     59/11   2561/868 
1100Z    -       -       -     53/15   13/2      -     66/17   2627/885 
1200Z    -       -       -     44/11   28/1      -     72/12   2699/897 
1300Z    -       -       -     15/3    66/9      -     81/12   2780/909 
1400Z    -       -       -     34/6    44/8      -     78/14   2858/923 
1500Z    -       -       -      3/0     8/1      -     11/1    2869/924    44
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    2869/924    60
1700Z    -       -       -     22/1     1/0     3/0    26/1    2895/925    43
1800Z    -       -       -     47/6    13/5      -     60/11   2955/936 
1900Z    -       -       -     37/12   16/5      -     53/17   3008/953 
2000Z    -       -       -     50/6     3/2      -     53/8    3061/961 
2100Z    -       -       -     61/8     2/0     1/1    64/9    3125/970 
2200Z    -       -     22/2    40/4      -       -     62/6    3187/976 
2300Z    -       -     43/7     9/3      -       -     52/10   3239/986    20

Total:  3/0   155/39  940/363 1631/487 492/92   18/5  


Most worked countries:

     K       2     47    300    477    242     17    1085
    DL             21     78    153     30            282
    UA                    51    118     15            184
    UR              1     62     76      8            147
    OK             13     44     59     11            127
    VE       1     13     39     36     12            101

Only one six bander:  NR4M


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