[3830] CQWW CW ZF9CW SO(A)AB HP

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Mon Nov 26 11:24:16 EST 2018


                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: ZF9CW
Operator(s): ZF9CW
Station: ZF9CW

Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: RazorBrac SeaEsta
Operating Time (hrs): 46

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  343    25       84
   80:  908    32      112
   40: 1046    36      137
   20: 1289    36      143
   15:  483    29       85
   10:   19     7       10
------------------------------
Total: 4088   165      571  Total Score = 7,373,248

Club: CARS

Comments:

Few random thoughts.

Conditions were outstanding on the low bands.  It was fun jumping across 5 bands
in the last hour or two to work multipliers.  Excited to work RM9A on 160 at
sunset.  Those guys did an outstanding M/M effort.  The SE Asia stations were
workable in the last hour on 20m and added some fun multipliers.

Speaking of sunset, there was something that happened which was new for me.  I
have a 800 foot beverage toward Europe.  I went to 40 meters very early - like
about 2 PM local (4 hours before sunset) in order to get away from the raging
pileup I was generating on 20 every time I called CQ :-) Until sunset on 160, 80
and 40 the little delta loop RX antenna I had pointed NW was MUCH better for the
Europeans than the Beverage.  I supposed that my beverage was either broken or
the signals were actually following the grey line coming from North to South.  I
think the later was the case since the Beverage came to life as soon as I had
darkness between me and Europe.  You learn something new every day.  

The work I did on horizontal antennas paid off in a big way when working places
where a salt water path is not available for a vertical.

African and Southeast Asia activity was great.  The only QSO I made in the
contest with a vertical was with the JD1 on 20m.  He was very weak.  I called
once with a 2L Yagi at 60 feet and didn't get him.  I switched to a quarter wave
vertical about 4 feet from the water and got him on the next call.  

The reason I entered assisted was not to come in second place out of two entries
from ZF :-). The score would probably have been better unassisted because I
would not spend the whole contest clicking on spots to try to work as many
countries as possible.  I realized I was just in it for my own enjoyment when I
would leave a rate meter of over 200 and go call hard to work multipliers when
N1MM was telling me that a multiplier was only worth 4 QSOS.  

At my current skill level I can work WAY more contacts per hour with a small,
steady pileup than with a raging one. Need to acquire some discipline in order
to stay in the chair and keep at it with a big pileup.  You would think I was
the only ZF on the air and had just gotten on 20 meters toward the end of the
contest. I took it for the first 2 hours of the contest and then looked at the
spots and got lazy.  I never let more than two or three workable multipliers
become available without leaving a CQ frequency to go to work them.  I don't
think my stack of tribanders is doing anything for me , and I need to hook up
the bottom tribander as a receive antenna in order to attempt to use two radios
on the high bands.  Even so, I have to learn to do it efficiently.  

One time I called CQ on 160 and the pileup was so big I just could not manage
it.  I turned the amplifier off jacked the power on my TS-590S up to 60W and
continued until the pileup got too small.  There were many Europeans who didn't
seem to have any problems hearing my 60W signal.

I would like to hear from other guys about how narrow or wide they set their
filter when the pileup is huge.  I think I learned Sunday afternoon that I do
better with the filter kinda wide open as opposed to narrow.

I had no idea what was going on at the time but I must have gone back to a
partial call sign ( perhaps AM ENN 8) several times?  Try turning the volume up
a little in the middle of a big WW contest on Sunday afternoon after no sleep
and see what it is like to have the radio switch to the AM mode two or three
times.  That will wake you up in a hurry!  

One thing that was great about this contest was there were very few dupes.  The
RBN network must have done something to fix the bad spots.  I don't know the
number but think there were probably fewer than a dozen people who are in my log
more than once on the same band.

Ok, enough of my random thoughts.  I appreciate all the contacts.  It is a fun
hobby and I am really enjoying it.

Statistics below from CBSW.

73...Stan, ZF9CW

Cabrillo Statistics           (Version 10g)           by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat

CALLSIGN: ZF9CW
CONTEST: CQ-WW-CW
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: ZF9CW

-------------- Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10    Rate Total    Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
0000       0      0    200      0      0      0    200    200    4.9
0100       0      0    200      0      0      0    200    400    9.8
0200       0      1     61      0      0      0     62    462   11.3
0300       0    112     18      0      0      0    130    592   14.5
0400       0    179      0      0      0      0    179    771   18.9
0500     115     13      0      0      0      0    128    899   22.0
0600      62      0     12      0      0      0     74    973   23.8
0700      13     63      1      0      0      0     77   1050   25.7
0800       3     68     12      0      0      0     83   1133   27.7
0900       0      0    162      0      0      0    162   1295   31.7
1000       1      0     28      0      0      0     29   1324   32.4
1100       1     68     11      0      0      0     80   1404   34.4
1200       0     53      0     93      0      0    146   1550   37.9
1300       0      0      0    156      0      0    156   1706   41.7
1400       0      0      0     28     36      0     64   1770   43.3
1500       0      0      0      0    176      0    176   1946   47.6
1600       0      0      0     17     62      1     80   2026   49.6
1700       0      0      0     89     20      0    109   2135   52.2
1800       0      0      0     82      6      0     88   2223   54.4
1900       0      0      1    106      0      0    107   2330   57.0
2000       0      0      1      9      1     14     25   2355   57.6
2100       0      0     20      6     12      0     38   2393   58.6
2200       0     67      0      1      0      0     68   2461   60.2
2300       2     36      1      1      0      0     40   2501   61.2
0000       0     71      2      0      0      0     73   2574   63.0
0100       4      1     57      0      0      0     62   2636   64.5
0200       0      3     92      0      0      0     95   2731   66.8
0300       4      8      6      0      0      0     18   2749   67.3
0400       1      4      3      0      0      0      8   2757   67.5
0500      10     33     23      0      0      0     66   2823   69.1
0600      47     28      1      0      0      0     76   2899   70.9
0700       1     25     16      0      0      0     42   2941   72.0
0800       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   2941   72.0
0900       0      0      1      0      0      0      1   2942   72.0
1000      75      3      1      0      0      0     79   3021   73.9
1100       0     70      3      0      0      0     73   3094   75.7
1200       0      0      0     51      0      0     51   3145   77.0
1300       0      0      0    101      3      0    104   3249   79.5
1400       0      0      0     11     29      0     40   3289   80.5
1500       0      0      0    117      1      0    118   3407   83.4
1600       0      0      0    160      0      0    160   3567   87.3
1700       0      0      0     94     10      0    104   3671   89.8
1800       0      0      0      0    113      4    117   3788   92.7
1900       0      0      0     93     11      0    104   3892   95.2
2000       0      0     69      9      1      0     79   3971   97.2
2100       0      0     44      3      1      0     48   4019   98.3
2200       3      1      0      5      1      0     10   4029   98.6
2300       0      1      0     57      0      0     58   4087  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total    342    908   1046   1289    483     19   4087

Gross QSOs=4116        Dupes=29        Net QSOs=4087

Unique callsigns worked = 2800

The best 60 minute rate was 209/hour from 0012 to 0111
The best 30 minute rate was 224/hour from 0042 to 0111
The best 10 minute rate was 240/hour from 1510 to 1519

The best 1 minute rates were:
 6 QSOs/minute    1 times.
 5 QSOs/minute   29 times.
 4 QSOs/minute  250 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  490 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  470 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  526 times.


----------------- C o n t i n e n t   S u m m a r y -----------------
                 160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
---------------------------------------------------------------------
North America    185    475    524    653    392      5   2234   54.7
South America     11     14     16     20     24     11     96    2.3
Europe           122    306    404    558     48      0   1438   35.2
Asia              11     94     66     26      2      0    199    4.9
Africa             6      9     15     19     12      0     61    1.5
Oceania            7      8     19     11      5      3     53    1.3
???                0      2      2      2      0      0      6    0.1
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total            342    908   1046   1289    483     19   4087

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3        29
   4      2006
   5      1373
   6       656
   7         2
   8         6
   9        14
  10         1

------------------ C o u n t r y   S u m m a r y ------------------
Country        160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3B8              0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.0
3D2              0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
3V               1      0      0      0      0      0      1    0.0
3W               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
4J               0      1      1      1      0      0      3    0.1
4L               0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.0
4O               0      1      1      1      0      0      3    0.1
4X               0      1      2      1      0      0      4    0.1
5B               1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
5H               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
5R               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
5U               0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
5W               0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
5X               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
5Z               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
6W               1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
6Y               1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
7Q               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
7X               0      1      1      0      0      0      2    0.0
8P               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.0
9A               1      4      6      7      2      0     20    0.5
9H               0      1      1      1      0      0      3    0.1
9L               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
9M6              0      1      1      1      0      0      3    0.1
9V               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
9X               0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
9Y               1      1      1      1      2      0      6    0.1
A3               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
A4               0      1      2      1      0      0      4    0.1
A6               0      1      1      1      0      0      3    0.1
A7               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
A9               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
BV               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
BY               0      1      1      1      0      0      3    0.1
C6               1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
CE               1      2      1      1      1      1      7    0.2
CM               1      1      1      1      0      0      4    0.1
CN               1      1      2      1      1      0      6    0.1
CP               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
CT               2      2      1      2      1      0      8    0.2
CT3              1      2      2      2      1      0      8    0.2
CU               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
CX               1      0      1      2      1      0      5    0.1
D4               1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
DL              10     38     64    101      3      0    216    5.3
DU               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
E7               1      3      4      1      1      0     10    0.2
EA               2      9      9     25      4      0     49    1.2
EA6              1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
EA8              1      2      1      2      2      0      8    0.2
EA9              0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
EI               2      2      1      2      0      0      7    0.2
EK               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
ER               0      0      2      1      0      0      3    0.1
ES               1      1      1      2      0      0      5    0.1
EU               2      3      3      9      1      0     18    0.4
F                4      9     17     27      3      0     60    1.5
FG               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
FK               0      1      1      0      0      0      2    0.0
FM               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
FY               0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
G                3     13     20     28      7      0     71    1.7
GD               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
GI               0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.0
GM               1      2      3      6      4      0     16    0.4
GU               0      1      1      2      0      0      4    0.1
GW               1      1      2      1      1      0      6    0.1
HA               4      6     10     12      2      0     34    0.8
HB               4      4      5      8      1      0     22    0.5
HB0              0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
HC               1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
HH               1      1      1      1      0      0      4    0.1
HI               1      1      0      1      0      0      3    0.1
HK               1      1      0      1      1      0      4    0.1
HL               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
HP               0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
HR               1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
HS               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
HZ               0      1      0      1      0      0      2    0.0
I                9     22     28     27      1      0     87    2.1
*IG9             0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
*IT9             1      1      1      5      1      0      9    0.2
J3               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
J6               1      1      1      2      1      0      6    0.1
J8               1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
JA               8     78     32      5      1      0    124    3.0
JD/o             0      1      1      1      0      0      3    0.1
K              156    422    469    585    340      2   1974   48.3
KG4              0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
KH2              0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
KH6              5      1      2      1      1      0     10    0.2
KL               0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
KP2              1      1      1      1      1      1      6    0.1
KP4              2      1      2      1      1      0      7    0.2
LA               2      6      9      3      1      0     21    0.5
LU               0      1      1      1      1      4      8    0.2
LX               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
LY               1      8      6     11      0      0     26    0.6
LZ               1      7     10     11      1      0     30    0.7
OA               0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
OE               1      1      3      3      2      0     10    0.2
OH              13     10      9      8      0      0     40    1.0
OH0              1      1      1      2      0      0      5    0.1
OK               7     12     15     23      1      0     58    1.4
OM               2      9      7      8      1      0     27    0.7
ON               1      3      5      7      0      0     16    0.4
OX               1      0      0      0      1      0      2    0.0
OY               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
OZ               1      6      3      7      0      0     17    0.4
P4               1      1      1      1      2      0      6    0.1
PA               4     10     14     20      1      0     49    1.2
PJ2              1      1      1      1      1      1      6    0.1
PJ4              2      2      2      2      1      0      9    0.2
PJ7              0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
PY               1      1      1      2      7      2     14    0.3
PY0F             0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
PZ               0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
S5               4      9     15     19      2      0     49    1.2
SM               6      6      3     12      0      0     27    0.7
SP               4     17     19     23      1      0     64    1.6
SV               1      3      3      3      0      0     10    0.2
SV9              1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
T8               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
TA               0      0      1      2      0      0      3    0.1
TF               1      1      0      1      0      0      3    0.1
TG               0      1      1      0      1      0      3    0.1
TI               1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
TK               1      1      2      1      1      0      6    0.1
TR               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
TU               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
UA              12     44     46     62      0      0    164    4.0
UA2              2      1      1      1      0      0      5    0.1
UA9              2      6     13      3      0      0     24    0.6
UK               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
UN               0      1      2      1      0      0      4    0.1
UR               1     10     29     35      1      0     76    1.9
V2               1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
V3               0      1      0      0      0      0      1    0.0
V4               0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
V5               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
V6               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
V7               0      1      1      1      0      0      3    0.1
V8               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
VE               9     30     29     38     29      0    135    3.3
VK               1      1      6      1      1      0     10    0.2
VP2E             1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
VP2V             1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
VP5              0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
VP9              1      1      1      1      0      0      4    0.1
VR               0      1      0      0      0      0      1    0.0
VU               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
XE               2      1      1      4      2      0     10    0.2
YB               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
YL               3      5      1      5      0      0     14    0.3
YO               1      3      6      8      0      0     18    0.4
YU               2      5      9      6      1      0     23    0.6
*Z6              0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
YV               1      1      2      3      1      3     11    0.3
Z3               0      1      2      1      0      0      4    0.1
ZA               0      1      1      1      0      0      3    0.1
ZF               1      1      1      1      1      1      6    0.1
ZL               1      1      1      1      1      3      8    0.2
ZS               0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
???              0      2      2      2      0      0      6    0.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total          342    908   1046   1289    483     19   4087

------------ M u l t i p l i e r   S u m m a r y ------------
Mult     160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
05        86    220    246    296    178      0   1026   25.1
04        54    176    179    243    159      2    813   19.9
14        44    114    160    258     28      0    604   14.8
15        58    122    146    169     16      0    511   12.5
03        25     56     74     85     32      0    272    6.7
16        15     57     81    109      2      0    264    6.5
25         8     78     33      6      1      0    126    3.1
08        14     15     18     20     14      3     84    2.1
20         5     16     24     27      3      0     75    1.8
09         7      8      9     11     10      4     49    1.2
33         4      6      8      6      4      0     28    0.7
11         1      2      2      3      8      2     18    0.4
21         0      4      7      6      0      0     17    0.4
07         2      4      4      3      4      0     17    0.4
35         2      2      4      5      3      0     16    0.4
32         1      3      4      3      2      3     16    0.4
31         5      2      3      2      1      0     13    0.3
13         1      1      2      3      2      4     13    0.3
17         1      4      5      1      0      0     11    0.3
27         0      2      5      3      1      0     11    0.3
18         0      1      9      0      0      0     10    0.2
06         2      1      1      4      2      0     10    0.2
10         1      1      2      2      3      0      9    0.2
30         1      1      4      1      1      0      8    0.2
12         1      2      1      1      1      1      7    0.2
02         1      2      1      2      1      0      7    0.2
28         0      1      2      4      0      0      7    0.2
24         0      2      2      2      0      0      6    0.1
01         0      1      1      2      1      0      5    0.1
40         2      1      0      1      1      0      5    0.1
19         1      2      1      1      0      0      5    0.1
37         0      0      1      3      1      0      5    0.1
36         0      1      1      2      1      0      5    0.1
38         0      0      1      1      2      0      4    0.1
39         0      0      0      2      1      0      3    0.1
26         0      0      2      1      0      0      3    0.1
29         0      0      2      0      0      0      2    0.0
22         0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total    342    908   1046   1289    483     19   4087

Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands    2036
2 bands     438
3 bands     180
4 bands      98
5 bands      45
6 bands       3

The following stations were worked on 6 bands:

PJ2T        ZF1A        ZM4T        

------- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O s ------
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs    150    452    532    714    177     11


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