[3830] ARRLDX CW ZF5T(@ZF9CW) M/S LP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2021

Call: ZF5T
Operator(s): ZF9CW ZF9DX
Station: ZF9CW

Class: M/S LP
QTH: AR
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Remote Operation

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:  461    54
   80: 1006    58
   40: 1358    60
   20: 1529    60
   15: 1263    60
   10:  136    33
-------------------
Total: 5753   325  Total Score = 5,609,175

Club: Brac Radio Contest Club

Comments:

Last year this station entered the contest in the same category.  We had enough
fun that W5SJ, K4UEE, and I planned to do it again this year but the pandemic
put a stop to our plans.

Before we came down in November I contacted Marty, NN1C, and he gave me a
shopping list for what I might need to set the station up for remote.  The plan
was to see if we could get it done before we return to the states in April.  I
was not looking forward to 48 hours and asked my son, Kevin, if he would like to
try the remote if Marty could get it going for us.  He said he would like that
and Marty came through with a last minute request.  We had the TS-590S working
on Thursday.

The main radio was an ICOM-7610 and the TS-590 was set up so it could interrupt
the IC-7610 and work stations in-band or go separately.  My receiving antennas
are not ideal for this (yet) but we managed to use both radios.  For the first
several hours we were on the same frequency (partner mode, I guess it’s
called) and whoever pressed enter first was the one who worked the station
calling.  Kevin was handicapped with the latency and about 75% of the time we
copied the same guy and I was first to take over the transmitter by a tiny
fraction of a second.  However, there were some times  we copied a different
caller and whoever won the battle would send something like R NW at the end of
the first contact and the other would press enter to work the other station. 
That was fun.  We averaged over 200 per hour for the first 6.5 hours of the
contest which got us off to a good start.

I did not have any expectation regarding how well we might do given that the
remote was a new thing here and I had the place in disarray with lots of cables
to relay boxes, etc.  Fortunately everything worked and we came pretty close to
the all time record - either 50 QSOs or 3 multipliers would have done the
trick.  This year the schedules we made on Sunday didn’t pan out and we
weren’t able to make a last minute comeback.  Unfortunately ten meters 
didn’t open on Sunday like it did for a couple hours last year.  We had 37
stations on 6 bands but another 196 that were worked on 5 bands.

I will leave the  serious effort in the phone contest to the guys at ZF1A and
they will be relatively rare for that one.  I get more enjoyment out of working
on stuff and thinking about it than actually operating.  I did, however, enjoy
working this one with Kevin.

Some statistics follow from CBS program.

73... Stan, ZF9CW (K5GO)


-------------- 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      7      0    203      0      0    210  
 210    3.7
0100       0     26    178      0      0      0    204  
 414    7.2
0200      60      0    147      0      0      0    207  
 621   10.8
0300      61    148      0      0      0      0    209  
 830   14.4
0400      64    145      1      0      0      0    210  
1040   18.1
0500      25    158      2      0      0      0    185  
1225   21.3
0600      36     12    101      0      0      0    149   1374
  23.9
0700       0     17    106      0      0      0    123   1497
  26.0
0800       9     16     28      0      0      0     53   1550
  26.9
0900      12      2     26      2      0      0     42  
1592   27.7
1000      29     14     20      0      0      0     63   1655
  28.8
1100      22     75      0      0      0      0     97  
1752   30.5
1200       0      0    130      0      0      0    130  
1882   32.7
1300       0      0      0    113      0      0    113  
1995   34.7
1400       0      0      0    100      0      0    100  
2095   36.4
1500       0      0      0     75     28      0    103   2198
  38.2
1600       0      0      0     40    169      8    217   2415
  42.0
1700       0      0      0      2    136      3    141  
2556   44.4
1800       0      0      0     59    110      1    170   2726
  47.4
1900       0      0      0      0     74    114    188   2914
  50.7
2000       0      0      0      0    168      8    176  
3090   53.7
2100       0      0      0     26    113      0    139   3229
  56.1
2200       0      0      3    143      1      0    147  
3376   58.7
2300       0      0      5    139      0      0    144  
3520   61.2
0000       5      0    125      7      0      0    137  
3657   63.6
0100       9     37    118      0      0      0    164   3821
  66.4
0200      43     20     54      0      0      0    117   3938
  68.5
0300      48     77      0      0      0      0    125  
4063   70.6
0400       7     82      0      0      0      0     89  
4152   72.2
0500       9     49     50      0      0      0    108   4260
  74.0
0600      10     15     24      0      0      0     49   4309
  74.9
0700       0     27     27      0      0      0     54   4363
  75.8
0800       5      3     32      0      0      0     40  
4403   76.5
0900       0      8     29      0      0      0     37  
4440   77.2
1000       2     52      7      0      0      0     61  
4501   78.2
1100       0     10     49      0      0      0     59   4560
  79.3
1200       0      0     19     45      0      0     64   4624
  80.4
1300       0      0      0     84      0      0     84  
4708   81.8
1400       0      0      0    113      5      0    118  
4826   83.9
1500       0      0      0     22    101      0    123   4949
  86.0
1600       0      0      0      7     85      0     92  
5041   87.6
1700       0      0      0      4    101      0    105  
5146   89.4
1800       0      0      0      0     81      2     83  
5229   90.9
1900       0      0      0      5     79      0     84  
5313   92.4
2000       0      0      0    124     12      0    136   5449
  94.7
2100       0      0      5    109      0      0    114  
5563   96.7
2200       0      0      7    103      0      0    110  
5673   98.6
2300       5      6     65      4      0      0     80  
5753  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total    461   1006   1358   1529   1263    136   5753
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:

WW3S        W8MJ        K9NW        VE3DZ       KI1G      
 K1TTT       
K9CT        K0RF        VE3EJ       VE9AA       K9IMM      
W2FU        
XL3A        K9ZO        N2WK        NA8V        W0ETT      
KT7E        
WE9V        K5ZD        N2NT        KY7M        K0PC      
 AC0W        
N7DX        N0IJ        K8MFO       VE3VN       K0YR      
 N7IR        
K0JP        KG9X        NX6T        K0TT        N3CW      
 WT9Q        
N9CK        


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