[3830] WPX CW AK1W(K5ZD) SOAB HP

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Mon May 27 23:44:00 EDT 2013


                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

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

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:   10
   80:   96
   40:  638
   20: 1338
   15:  738
   10:   67
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Total: 2887  Prefixes = 1005  Total Score = 7,759,605

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

This is the real AK1W score report...

You never know what you will get for conditions at the end of May.  Summer is
not like the Fall or Spring events.  WPX seems to be cursed with solar storms
over the past few years.

I was enticed into operating when I heard that K0DQ and K1LZ were going to have
a shoot out with their scores posting in real time on the cqcontest.ru site. I
also knew Kevin, N5DX, was going to be operating from W5WMU in Maine and doing
the same.  No Scot or Krassy, but Kevin was posting his score so it was fun to
keep track of how he was doing.

I operated full speed for the first 18 hours with just a 3 hour nap. Since I
had not planned on a serious operation, it was time to walk the dog and watch
the European Football Championship match. It was an exciting match and worth
missing some contesting.

Got back on, but conditions were not improving.  Effectively quit at the 24
hour mark when my family informed me that I needed to cook dinner.  Everything
after that was operating for fun and trying to stay ahead of Kevin on the
scoreboard.

As the K index fell on Sunday afternoon, the conditions did start to improve.
The UA9s started calling in on 20 meters and I worked some JA on 15m.  If only
it had been like this all weekend...

Best QSO was P29NO calling in on 15 meters with just a few minutes left to go
in the contest.  Biggest surprise was having B7M call in on 15m with a booming
signal over Europe at 1530z Sunday.  Never heard any Europe on 10m, but the
band was full of South Americans.

With the high bands open, it made it much easier to get a frequency on 40
meters.  Unfortunately, not much DX there.  My points per QSO was way down from
previous years.

The rapid QSB made copying numbers difficult at times.  I asked for lots of
repeats just to make sure I got it right, but still don't expect this to be one
of my more accurate contests.  But, it was fun.

Thanks to all who activated those unusual prefixes!

Continental breakdown:

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

    NA      10     63    327    427    258     20    1105    38.3
    OC       0      0      5      6      9      7      27     0.9
    EU       0     32    283    799    415      0    1529    53.0
    SA       0      0     11     22     29     40     102     3.5
    AS       0      0      6     74     16      0      96     3.3
    AF       0      1      6     10     11      0      28     1.0


Rates:

QSO/Pref by hour and band

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

0000Z  --+--   --+--   96/88   --+--   19/19   --+--  115/107   115/107 
0100Z    -       -     33/27   96/61   12/12     -    141/100   256/207 
0200Z    -       -     99/50   45/29     -       -    144/79    400/286 
0300Z    -      4/2   117/49    8/7     1/1      -    130/59    530/345 
0400Z    -     11/3   101/40    5/3      -       -    117/46    647/391 
0500Z   2/0    18/2    47/23   11/6      -       -     78/31    725/422 
0600Z    -       -     13/4      -       -       -     13/4     738/426   49
0700Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     738/426   60
0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0     738/426   60
0900Z    -       -      6/5    59/36    2/2      -     67/43    805/469   16
1000Z    -       -       -     87/44    6/2      -     93/46    898/515 
1100Z    -       -       -     73/28   20/4      -     93/32    991/547 
1200Z    -       -       -     55/20   48/10     -    103/30   1094/577 
1300Z    -       -       -      1/0   102/35    9/4   112/39   1206/616 
1400Z    -       -       -      6/3   101/25    5/3   112/31   1318/647 
1500Z    -       -       -     14/5    85/23     -     99/28   1417/675 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--  100/24   16/5    --+--  116/29   1533/704 
1700Z    -       -       -     62/17    9/2     5/1    76/20   1609/724   13
1800Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1609/724   60
1900Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1609/724   60
2000Z    -       -       -     10/3      -      1/0    11/3    1620/727   53
2100Z    -       -       -    122/34    8/4     1/1   131/39   1751/766 
2200Z    -       -       -     91/21   24/8      -    115/29   1866/795 
2300Z    -       -     28/4    52/8    15/5      -     95/17   1961/812 
0000Z  --+--   --+--    5/0    --+--   --+--   --+--    5/0    1966/812   57
0100Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1966/812   60
0200Z    -     15/1      -       -       -       -     15/1    1981/813   53
0300Z    -     40/5    25/4    11/5      -       -     76/14   2057/827 
0400Z   8/1     2/0    56/6     3/2      -       -     69/9    2126/836    2
0500Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2126/836   60
0600Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2126/836   60
0700Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2126/836   60
0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    2126/836   60
0900Z    -      6/0     6/1    43/10     -       -     55/11   2181/847    4
1000Z    -       -      4/0    53/18    1/0      -     58/18   2239/865 
1100Z    -       -       -     58/16     -       -     58/16   2297/881 
1200Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2297/881   60
1300Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2297/881   60
1400Z    -       -       -      9/2    50/9      -     59/11   2356/892   24
1500Z    -       -       -     12/2    75/17    2/0    89/19   2445/911 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--    2/0    44/2    16/6    62/8    2507/919    8
1700Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2507/919   60
1800Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2507/919   60
1900Z    -       -       -     47/11    3/0    11/4    61/15   2568/934   13
2000Z    -       -       -     74/13    7/2      -     81/15   2649/949 
2100Z    -       -       -     60/15   11/3     5/2    76/20   2725/969 
2200Z    -       -      2/0    13/6    57/10   11/2    83/18   2808/987 
2300Z    -       -       -     56/13   22/5     1/0    79/18   2887/1005

Total: 10/1    96/13 638/301 1338/462 738/205  67/23 

Worked on 6 bands: WW4E, NR4M


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