[3830] ARRLDX CW K5ZD SO Unlimited HP
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Sun Feb 16 19:46:17 EST 2020
ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2020
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 38.3
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 277 68
80: 690 89
40: 1106 103
20: 1831 115
15: 194 74
10: 18 15
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Total: 4116 464 Total Score = 5,729,472
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Station:
K3 + AL-1200
K3 + AL-1500
Writelog + MK2R+
160: Shunt fed tower, elevated 1/4-wave GP
80 : 4 square, dipole @ 80'
40: 40-2CD @ 110'
20: 205CA @ 100'/50'
15: 155CA @ 66'/33'
10: 6-ele @ 90'
South: TH7DXX @ 40'
A few notes:
Rates the first 18 hours or so were fantastic. Especially going down to 80
meters in the first hour and getting answers.
It felt like we ran out of people to work on the second day. No matter how good
the low bands (and they were really good), this contest needs the easy QSOs on
10 and 15. Maybe again some day!
Amazing runs on 160. There were times Sat night when the band hiss on 80 and
160 sounded like 10m. No QRN at all.
Very nice JA opening on 20m Sat evening. I actually got answers to my CQs!
I had planned a semi-serious effort to go for WRTC qualifying points. Decided
before the contest I would sleep both nights. First night went according to
plan, but didn't expect 20 to open so early. It was already rocking when I got
there.
I had planned to sleep Sat evening when the Europeans were sleeping. That
worked out well, but I could see on the scoreboard that AA3B gained 150+ QSOs
during that time. I made it my mission on Sunday morning to try to close the
gap.
I had also planned to sleep Sun morning at 09z. About that time I came down
with some kind food poisoning. Had to take a number of unplanned breaks for
that. Thought about quitting many times... Thanks to the incredibly close
scoreboard competition with AA3B (we were trading places every hour or so) I
was motivated to keep pushing. At the finish we are too close to call.
10m was completely empty on Saturday. Was surprised to see spots on Sunday
morning. It must have been e-skip because propagation was very spotlight. 8P5A
and VP2MSS were in all the time. Everyone else was nil until their 5 minutes of
propagation appeared.
DX contests are funny. I can run guys like crazy and then when I tune around a
call people, I am always getting beat out and have to stand my turn in line.
DXers are loud!
Fun contest. Thanks to everyone around the world who spent their weekend
chasing W/VE stations. You make the contest fun.
Randy K5ZD
Continents:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 237 611 983 1550 108 0 3489 84.8
SA 6 18 24 47 37 10 142 3.4
AF 6 10 15 16 8 0 55 1.3
AS 1 10 19 152 3 0 185 4.5
NA 25 36 41 51 34 8 195 4.7
OC 2 5 24 14 4 0 49 1.2
Breakdown:
QSO/DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumulative Off
0000Z --+-- 91/31 60/31 1/1 --+-- --+-- 152/63 152/63
0100Z - 80/7 46/15 - - - 126/22 278/85
0200Z 74/28 38/18 - - - - 112/46 390/131
0300Z 43/17 19/4 54/3 - - - 116/24 506/155
0400Z - 14/4 93/14 - - - 107/18 613/173
0500Z 50/12 62/7 2/2 - - - 114/21 727/194
0600Z 17/5 72/4 23/8 - - - 112/17 839/211
0700Z 6/2 14/3 114/8 - - - 134/13 973/224
0800Z --+-- 2/0 18/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 20/2 993/226 45
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 993/226 60
1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 993/226 60
1100Z - 2/1 - 121/33 - - 123/34 1116/260 24
1200Z - - - 212/11 - - 212/11 1328/271
1300Z - - - 196/5 11/9 - 207/14 1535/285
1400Z - - - 141/6 36/19 - 177/25 1712/310
1500Z - - - 70/25 34/9 - 104/34 1816/344
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 103/9 6/2 --+-- 109/11 1925/355
1700Z - - - 63/4 4/2 - 67/6 1992/361 20
1800Z - - - 78/4 8/4 - 86/8 2078/369
1900Z - - 8/1 35/4 22/12 - 65/17 2143/386
2000Z - - 113/2 4/0 2/0 - 119/2 2262/388
2100Z - - 51/0 43/3 4/3 - 98/6 2360/394
2200Z - - 10/9 59/1 - - 69/10 2429/404
2300Z - 6/0 74/1 25/1 - - 105/2 2534/406
0000Z --+-- 62/1 25/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 87/1 2621/407
0100Z 6/1 6/1 1/1 - - - 13/3 2634/410 50
0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2634/410 60
0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2634/410 60
0400Z 4/0 75/3 8/1 - - - 87/4 2721/414 20
0500Z 66/3 28/0 - - - - 94/3 2815/417
0600Z 7/0 69/2 14/0 - - - 90/2 2905/419
0700Z - 4/0 101/1 - - - 105/1 3010/420
0800Z --+-- 2/0 101/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 103/0 3113/420
0900Z - 1/1 18/1 - - - 19/2 3132/422 45
1000Z - - 2/1 9/0 - - 11/1 3143/423 60
1100Z - - 3/0 52/1 - - 55/1 3198/424 28
1200Z - - - 125/1 1/1 - 126/2 3324/426
1300Z - - - 136/2 1/0 - 137/2 3461/428
1400Z - - - 101/0 26/6 - 127/6 3588/434
1500Z - - - 67/1 15/2 2/2 84/5 3672/439
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 73/1 3/1 4/4 80/6 3752/445
1700Z - - - 59/0 4/0 6/5 69/5 3821/450 5
1800Z - - - 1/0 - 5/4 6/4 3827/454 48
1900Z - - 20/0 12/1 10/2 1/0 43/3 3870/457
2000Z - - 11/0 9/0 7/2 - 27/2 3897/459 15
2100Z - - 53/0 11/1 - - 64/1 3961/460 5
2200Z - - 66/2 18/0 - - 84/2 4045/462
2300Z 4/0 43/2 17/0 7/0 - - 71/2 4116/464
Totals: 277/68 690/89 1106/103 1831/115 194/74 18/15
Best 60 minutes: 218 QSOs 15-Feb-2020 11:28-12:28 UTC
Worked on 6 bands (thanks to 10m opening):
8P5A J42L KP3DX P40L P44W PJ2T PJ4A TO4A V26M V47T VP2MSS VP5K
Worked on 5 bands: 71
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 32 98 165 264 19 578
I 9 32 90 131 8 270
UA 15 43 41 151 1 251
G 7 28 59 99 10 203
UR 14 37 50 81 - 182
SP 12 37 58 63 1 171
OK 16 35 46 67 2 166
F 4 26 43 63 7 143
EA 9 18 49 54 8 138
HA 10 24 45 49 6 134
PA 8 14 38 68 3 131
SM 13 23 25 47 1 109
JA - 1 3 102 - 106
S5 9 18 29 36 8 100
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