[3830] CQWW CW K5ZD SOAB(A) HP
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Sun Nov 25 20:04:12 EST 2012
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs):
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 133 13 59
80: 609 23 95
40: 1066 32 118
20: 945 36 123
15: 1116 34 126
10: 790 29 110
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Total: 4659 167 631 Total Score = 10,745,868
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
I didn't feel like I had the motivation to do a serious SOAB entry. I have never
done Assisted before and it seemed like that would be a fun way to chase DX. On
Friday I figured out how to connect to a cluster and set filters to only get
Skimmer spots. I would learn on the job.
I now know that even being assisted doesn't always help with the people who
won't send their calls. People - it only takes 3 seconds to send your call!
Conditions were clearly down on Saturday, but that just meant all the action
was on 15m instead of 10m. Sunday things were better and 10 meters returned.
160m and 80m were good all weekend. Very quiet here in W1. 40m was wiped out
at the start of the contest, but got better through the weekend.
Bands didn't seem to be as crowded. Maybe it was just having room for everyone
to spread out across multiple bands. Sure nice having some space to hear the
weak ones.
Rates were fantastic. Best 60 minutes was 220 QSOs - a personal best on CW!
And part of the reason I couldn't stop operating once I started. What was
planned to be a casual effort became a full on push for maximum score. Two
hours off the first night and 4 hours the second. Probably could slept less,
but wanted to be fresh for the big runs in the daytime.
The Assisted category was fascinating. Always fun to learn new things. Like
how to chase spots without losing a run frequency. And how to decide when to
keep running and when to chase. Found some of my best multipliers when I was
tuning, so can't rely just on skimmer to find everything.
Hope everyone had as much fun as I did.
Station Description
Radio 1 - Elecraft K3 + Alpha 76CA
Radio 2 - Yeasu FT-1000D + Ameritron AL-1200 (~1200w)
Tower 1 - 100' Rohn 45G
40-2CD @ 110'
205CA @ 100' / 50'
5-el 15 @70' / 35'
160m 1/4-wave GP with 4 elevated radials
Tower 2 - 90' Rohn 25G
6-el 10 @90' with 4/4 @ 60'/30'
80m wire 4 square hanging from tower with 16 radials per vertical
160m shunt feed tower with 32 radials
Tower 3 - 40' Rohn 25G
TH7DXX at 40' pointed South
Continent Breakdown
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
AF 5 9 17 17 21 23 92 2.0
NA 31 61 102 72 56 45 367 7.9
OC 1 3 9 16 14 9 52 1.1
SA 5 12 28 35 32 40 152 3.3
EU 88 512 884 753 931 669 3837 82.4
AS 3 12 26 52 62 4 159 3.4
Rates
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
00Z --+-- --+-- 57/41 13/19 --+-- --+-- 70/60 70/60
01Z - 49/25 21/16 9/10 - - 79/51 149/111
02Z - 84/27 2/1 - - - 86/28 235/139
03Z 26/26 37/13 - - - - 63/39 298/178
04Z 28/9 - 41/23 - - - 69/32 367/210
05Z 41/13 34/7 - - - - 75/20 442/230
06Z 9/5 86/16 8/2 - - - 103/23 545/253
07Z 5/4 11/7 37/18 - - - 53/29 598/282
08Z 2/2 7/2 100/5 3/4 --+-- --+-- 112/13 710/295
09Z 2/2 2/2 36/5 36/21 - - 76/30 786/325
10Z - - 11/5 4/5 - - 15/10 801/335 43
11Z - - - - - - 0/0 801/335 60
12Z - - 3/0 138/15 - 1/2 142/17 943/352 2
13Z - - - 32/16 148/32 8/12 188/60 1131/412
14Z - - - - 185/24 20/16 205/40 1336/452
15Z - - - - 147/9 35/16 182/25 1518/477
16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 154/6 17/14 171/20 1689/497
17Z - - - 91/7 49/9 6/5 146/21 1835/518
18Z - - - 149/5 22/25 - 171/30 2006/548
19Z - - - 94/5 16/9 17/10 127/24 2133/572
20Z - - 8/1 38/16 - 4/5 50/22 2183/594
21Z - - 135/4 - 12/8 2/0 149/12 2332/606
22Z - - 108/2 - 10/6 5/5 123/13 2455/619
23Z - - 91/0 12/9 11/3 - 114/12 2569/631
00Z --+-- 13/4 57/6 6/7 --+-- --+-- 76/17 2645/648
01Z - 61/4 23/6 12/3 - - 96/13 2741/661
02Z 3/1 16/3 4/4 7/0 - - 30/8 2771/669
03Z 6/4 12/0 30/1 - - - 48/5 2819/674
04Z 1/0 37/3 1/1 4/3 - - 43/7 2862/681
05Z 7/3 77/1 4/1 - - - 88/5 2950/686
06Z 2/2 52/0 21/2 1/1 - - 76/5 3026/691
07Z 1/1 4/2 28/1 1/1 - - 34/5 3060/696 31
08Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 3060/696 60
09Z - - - - - - 0/0 3060/696 60
10Z - - - - - - 0/0 3060/696 60
11Z - 4/2 - 3/1 25/6 - 32/9 3092/705 40
12Z - - - - 156/7 24/14 180/21 3272/726
13Z - - - 3/1 5/3 188/13 196/17 3468/743
14Z - - - 1/1 8/2 171/8 180/11 3648/754
15Z - - - 10/4 - 142/5 152/9 3800/763
16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 37/0 96/7 133/7 3933/770
17Z - - - - 77/3 36/3 113/6 4046/776
18Z - - - 146/0 5/2 4/1 155/3 4201/779
19Z - - - 87/1 11/2 2/1 100/4 4301/783
20Z - - 22/0 25/1 9/2 - 56/3 4357/786
21Z - - 110/2 - 4/0 12/2 126/4 4483/790
22Z - - 76/2 10/1 13/1 - 99/4 4582/794
23Z - 23/0 32/1 10/2 12/1 - 77/4 4659/798
Tot: 133/72 609/118 1066/150 945/159 1116/160 790/139
Six bands: 8P5A 9A1A C5A CR2X CR6K D4C DF0HQ DH0GHU DL4MCF DL8ZAW DP9A DR1A
EA2EA EI7M EL2A F6KOP G5O HK1NA II1A IO5O LY2W LZ9W NP4Z OM8A OQ5M P33W PI4CC
PJ2T PJ4A PZ5T S50XX SP1NY TM4Q UW3U VP2MMM VP2V/AA7V VE2EKA VP5CW YT2W Z38N
Five bands: 84 !
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