[3830] CQWW CW K5ZD SO(A)AB HP

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Sun Nov 24 22:10:47 EST 2019


                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2019

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

Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  267    17       77
   80:  655    27      101
   40:  979    34      134
   20: 1691    34      146
   15:  202    24       87
   10:   36    11       25
------------------------------
Total: 3830   147      570  Total Score = 7,769,412

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

I wanted to do the contest, but didn't do the mental prep work to commit for a
full effort.  I "quit" for the first time after just 4 hours.  But, as
always, the contest and online scoreboard sucked me in.  Didn't hurt that the
weather outside was raining and cold. That meant no line noise, but we did have
rain static on Sunday afternoon. Part of my 40m run was listening on a dipole
that was up 30 feet.

Slept 90 mins the first night.  Then 3 hours and then another 90 mins the
second.

Never felt loud all weekend.  There were no other daytime bands besides 20m so
spent most of my time there.  Lots of spot chasing on the second radio.

That was surely the best 160m conditions we have ever had for a WW CW. I had
some short runs to Eu both nights.  Sat night the signal levels were great and
there was NO noise.  Even the last hour had good signals from Eu.  Sure never
expected to have a better line score on 160 than on 15!

As good as 80m was at Eu sunrise, what happened to 40m?  It was empty even as I
worked Europeans on 160 and 80 well past their sunrise.

15 opened very early both mornings, then faded, and then came back as sunset
passed the eastern stations.  Glad I got most of my mults on Sat, because was
not as good on Sun morning.

Never felt loud all weekend.  And never had the really big rates, but it was
always interesting and entertaining.  Had to keep reminding myself not to fall
into DXing.  Rate is king in this contest!

The list of broken stuff keeps getting longer.  No rotatable antenna on 15m. 
Direction indicator on the tribander is out. Tribander showed high SWR on 20m
Sunday (never had that before).  20m stack system has a control cable short
somewhere...  I should have addressed all this during the nice Summer and Fall
weather, but what's the fun in that?

I did record the contest if anyone wants to hear something.

Thanks to everyone who traveled to give out a multiplier.  I have never had
anywhere close to 140 countries on a band as a single op - and half the world
was out of range due to propagation.  Missed zones 23, 24,28 and 34.

Some numbers:

QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band

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

0000Z  --+--   --+--   47/54   38/27   --+--   --+--   85/81     85/81  
0100Z    -      2/3   126/24    3/3      -       -    131/30    216/111 
0200Z    -     29/28   85/15     -       -       -    114/43    330/154 
0300Z    -     49/19   65/3      -       -       -    114/22    444/176 
0400Z    -     64/12   22/13     -       -       -     86/25    530/201  15
0500Z  66/53    6/1     7/3      -       -       -     79/57    609/258 
0600Z  67/4    47/7     6/5     3/3      -       -    123/19    732/277 
0700Z  16/12   65/13    1/0      -       -       -     82/25    814/302 
0800Z   6/6    11/9    45/9     6/9    --+--   --+--   68/33    882/335 
0900Z    -      2/3     9/3     8/7      -       -     19/13    901/348  35
1000Z    -       -      2/0      -       -       -      2/0     903/348  60
1100Z   1/1     4/0     7/3    98/23    3/6      -    113/33   1016/381 
1200Z    -       -       -    186/14    8/13     -    194/27   1210/408 
1300Z    -       -       -    175/3    18/18     -    193/21   1403/429 
1400Z    -       -       -    165/6    25/19     -    190/25   1593/454 
1500Z    -       -       -    128/10   42/8     1/2   171/20   1764/474 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   43/35   22/18    4/8    69/61   1833/535 
1700Z    -       -       -    111/2    18/9     4/2   133/13   1966/548 
1800Z    -       -       -     64/12    4/5    17/16   85/33   2051/581 
1900Z    -       -       -     13/1     3/2     3/3    19/6    2070/587 
2000Z    -       -    111/1     4/4      -      1/1   116/6    2186/593 
2100Z    -      3/1   138/1     8/3      -       -    149/5    2335/598 
2200Z    -      7/5    48/16    3/0      -       -     58/21   2393/619 
2300Z   6/2    22/6     9/6     4/0      -       -     41/14   2434/633 
0000Z   2/1    11/3    --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   13/4    2447/637  47
0100Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2447/637  60
0200Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2447/637  60
0300Z   6/3    26/2     1/1      -       -       -     33/6    2480/643  28
0400Z   3/3    82/7    11/1      -       -       -     96/11   2576/654 
0500Z  24/4    86/2      -       -       -       -    110/6    2686/660 
0600Z  39/1    51/3     2/1      -       -       -     92/5    2778/665 
0700Z  19/4    48/1     3/0      -       -       -     70/5    2848/670 
0800Z  --+--   14/0     1/0    --+--   --+--   --+--   15/0    2863/670  43
0900Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2863/670  60
1000Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2863/670  60
1100Z    -      6/1    13/2    42/2      -       -     61/5    2924/675   6
1200Z    -       -      4/2    90/5     2/1      -     96/8    3020/683 
1300Z    -       -       -    124/1     2/0      -    126/1    3146/684 
1400Z    -       -       -    113/0    11/3     2/1   126/4    3272/688 
1500Z    -       -       -     83/1    22/3      -    105/4    3377/692 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   88/2     3/2     1/2    92/6    3469/698 
1700Z    -       -       -     71/2     8/0      -     79/2    3548/700 
1800Z    -       -      3/0     4/1     4/1     1/1    12/3    3560/703 
1900Z    -       -     11/0     7/2      -      2/0    20/2    3580/705  30
2000Z    -       -     56/3     3/1     3/1      -     62/5    3642/710 
2100Z    -      1/0    81/0     5/1     4/2      -     91/3    3733/713 
2200Z   3/0    12/0    55/2     1/0      -       -     71/2    3804/715 
2300Z   9/0     7/2    10/0      -       -       -     26/2    3830/717  15

Total:267/94  655/128 979/168 1691/180 202/111 36/36 


Best 60 mins: 208 starting @ 23-Nov-2019 12:45

Worked on 6 bands:
PJ4K VE3EJ 6V7A 8P5A 8R1/AG6UT D4C HI3CC P40W PJ2T PZ5W TI7W V26K V47T

Lots of 5-banders that covered 160-15m.


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