[3830] ARRLDX CW K5ZD SO Unlimited HP
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Mon Feb 17 08:33:22 EST 2014
ARRL DX Contest, CW
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 32.5
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 64 41
80: 376 70
40: 663 93
20: 1044 109
15: 1069 112
10: 913 105
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Total: 4129 530 Total Score = 6,565,110
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
I am little burned out on contesting. Just in the middle of CQWW results, made
trip to Estonia for the Contest Club of Finland meeting 2 weeks ago, and
WRTC2014. So couldn't get up for a full effort, but as it seems each time, the
great conditions lured me in for more operating than I planned.
It wasn't without challenges. Spent the first 90 minutes on 40m with the amp
tuned to 10m. I turned the amp on, but forgot to tune it. Still worked a
bunch of guys but couldn't figure out why I felt so weak. Duh! Discovered the
TH7 mult antenna would not turn and didn't seem to pointed exactly south.
Something to work on when the snow melts.
Started getting the sniffles on Friday evening. It had turned into a full on
cold with some fever by Sat morning. My whole station now needs to be
disinfected from the occasional sneeze...
All bands were good. 160m to 10m. I made myself take a nap the first night and
then took another off time at midday to go for a walk and get a haircut. The
rates during the morning were incredible. A personal best 60 minutes of 222!
Personal best clock hour of 219. Could have been better, but the zero beat
problem often caused some delay in getting a callsign.
Had just settled into a perfect run frequency on 40m Sat afternoon when the
snow static started. Wiped out 40 and pushed me back to 20m. Then I got the
dinner call and took a break.
With the cold, I figured it would be good to get some more sleep. Didn't set
the alarm and figured I would probably sleep 8 hours or so. I woke up at one
point and saw the clock said 10:43. In my fog, I thought that was GMT and it
was the perfect time to wake up. I was on the air making QSOs before I
realized it was local time and had only slept 3 hours.
It exposed me to the most incredible conditions of the weekend. I happened to
listen on 15m at 0400z. There were signals there! Lots of them from Asia and
very loud. Worked a JT1, BG2, XW0, UA0s, JAs. Even wilder, I was alternating
making QSOs on 15m and 160m. It was really noisy here on 160, but must have
been very quiet in Europe because everyone came right back on the first call.
About 0730z I ended up on 20m. The band was open to everywhere over the pole.
I had one beam NE and one NW. Started off with some Eu and then the JAs started
calling. JAs don't usually call me, much less have a real run. Signals had a
polar sound, but were loud enough to get the whole call each time. Even worked
some QRP JAs. This lasted until about 0930z. Must not have been much activity
on the band because I had lots of callers.
Took a 90 minute nap and then came back on at 1130z. 15m was already rocking so
I went there. More big hours. Kept waiting for 10m to open, but it didn't
sound as good at 15m. Heard K0DQ up in ME running guys before I could.
Finally made the jump around 1445z.
Some studly QSOs during the day. Plenty of VU2s on 10-20m. Several HS0 called
in on 15m over Europe. As did two VK6s. The amazing QSO was JA1BPA calling in
on 15m LP at 1337z.
Using the cluster was fun because it allowed me to run like a maniac all the
time without missing too much. Even with it, there weren't many new mults on
the second day. Mostly filling in band slots.
The ultimate proof of how good conditions were is the number of 5 and 6 band
QSOs.
Worked 44 stations on 6 bands:
6Y2T 9A1A CN2AA CR3L CS2C DF3FS DL1A E7DX EA5RS EC2DX ED7P EF5F HG1S HK1NA IR1Y
J38XX KH6LC KP2M LZ9W OE2S OL7M OM7RU OT2A P40W PI4TUE PJ2T PJ4X R22ALS S54W
SO9Q SV1DPJ TI5W TM6M UR7GO UW1M UW2M UW3U V26M V31TP VP2EZZ VP5S YU0T YU5R
ZF35A
Worked 86 on 5 bands.
It also means there isn't as much pressure on any one band. With everyone
spread out across 3+ bands at a time, it was never difficult to find a
frequency. No frequency fights the whole weekend!
Thanks to everyone who called in. This was a great one for having fun running
rate and chasing DX.
Rates:
QSO/DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z --+-- --+-- 87/34 24/21 --+-- --+-- 111/55 111/55
0100Z - - 72/12 20/15 - - 92/27 203/82
0200Z 1/1 80/34 5/1 2/0 - - 88/36 291/118
0300Z 20/17 10/2 - 42/11 - - 72/30 363/148
0400Z 5/5 74/14 2/2 19/4 - - 100/25 463/173
0500Z 1/1 16/11 17/16 35/4 - - 69/32 532/205
0600Z 2/2 76/4 7/3 32/5 - - 117/14 649/219
0700Z 4/4 1/1 48/5 82/12 - - 135/22 784/241
0800Z 3/3 --+-- 54/2 3/0 --+-- --+-- 60/5 844/246 28
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 844/246 60
1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 844/246 60
1100Z - 2/2 9/4 - 109/33 - 120/39 964/285 9
1200Z - - - 11/5 169/11 28/19 208/35 1172/320
1300Z - - - - 8/4 211/23 219/27 1391/347
1400Z - - - - 14/9 175/9 189/18 1580/365
1500Z - - - - 4/4 21/18 25/22 1605/387 44
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1605/387 60
1700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1605/387 60
1800Z - - - - 70/3 21/12 91/15 1696/402 22
1900Z - - - 140/5 27/11 2/1 169/17 1865/419
2000Z - - 27/0 87/3 12/6 6/3 132/12 1997/431
2100Z - - - 78/2 16/3 13/6 107/11 2104/442
2200Z - - - 19/0 12/2 8/0 39/2 2143/444 35
2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2143/444 60
0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2143/444 60
0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2143/444 60
0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2143/444 60
0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2143/444 60
0400Z 15/4 2/0 68/4 8/3 8/3 - 101/14 2244/458
0500Z 11/2 68/1 10/1 6/5 - - 95/9 2339/467
0600Z 2/2 15/1 98/1 1/0 - - 116/4 2455/471
0700Z - 3/0 40/0 70/1 - - 113/1 2568/472
0800Z --+-- --+-- 4/1 129/4 --+-- --+-- 133/5 2701/477
0900Z - 3/0 1/1 46/0 - - 50/1 2751/478 12
1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 2751/478 60
1100Z - - 2/1 - 59/0 - 61/1 2812/479 36
1200Z - - - 3/2 173/5 6/3 182/10 2994/489
1300Z - - - 1/0 152/5 11/2 164/7 3158/496
1400Z - - - - 83/5 54/1 137/6 3295/502
1500Z - - - 4/1 5/2 147/3 156/6 3451/508
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 1/1 17/2 113/1 131/4 3582/512
1700Z - - - 6/0 77/1 61/2 144/3 3726/515
1800Z - - - 85/2 26/0 18/0 129/2 3855/517
1900Z - - - 60/0 1/1 12/1 73/2 3928/519 23
2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 3928/519 60
2100Z - - 4/1 1/1 - - 5/2 3933/521 54
2200Z - - 80/2 29/2 - 2/0 111/4 4044/525
2300Z - 26/0 28/2 - 27/2 4/1 85/5 4129/530 7
Total: 64/41 376/70 663/93 1044/109 1069/112 913/105
By continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 45 337 589 806 904 791 3472 84.1
AF 2 3 7 12 11 11 46 1.1
NA 12 22 26 25 25 27 137 3.3
SA 4 8 15 24 25 42 118 2.9
OC 1 5 7 15 13 9 50 1.2
AS 0 1 19 162 91 33 306 7.4
Station:
Elecraft K3 + Alpha 76CA
FT1000D + AL-1200
160m: 1/4-wave GP, shunt fed tower
80m: 4 square
40m: 2-el Yagi @ 110'
20m: 5-el/5-el @ 100'/50'
15m: 4-el/4-el @ 66'/33'
10m: 6-el/4-el/4-el @90'/60'/30'
South: TH7DXX @40'
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