ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 22.7
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 389
40: 357
20: 402
15: 114
10: 0
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Total: 1262 Sections = 83 Total Score = 209,492
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
My 40th consecutive year with over 1000 QSOs in SS CW!
Not very motivated to put in a full effort, but when I saw this was going to be
the 40th year, I had to give it a run. Stopped early and took most of my off
time all at once. Have never done that before. Sure removes the pressure on
Sunday since there is no escape except to keep CQing and tuning.
Have had an bad SWR on my 40m beam for over a year. Was motivated Sat morning
to diagnose the problem. On trip #1, found a bad coax connector at the top of
the tower. I strung together 400+ feet of extension cords and on trip #2, I
carried up the soldering iron and put on a new connector. Nice to have 40
working again.
Great runs from the start of the contest until 06Z. Then it was like someone
turned off the activity.
Now I know why I have tried to save offtime to avoid the Sunday evening 00z and
01z hours. Ugh. Almost quit it was so bad. 15 mins of CQing with no answer.
Last hour was good.
Operating quality seemed to be better. Almost everyone seemed to send the
right thing when I sent NR, PR, CK, SEC!
Way too many checks in the late 50s and early 60s, without enough in the last
few years. The traffic handlers that make SS special are all getting old.
QSO/Sec by hour and band
Hour 80 40 20 15 Total Cumm Off
D1-2100Z - - 18/10 78/33 96/43 96/43
D1-2200Z - 1/0 77/15 16/2 94/17 190/60
D1-2300Z - 37/3 50/4 - 87/7 277/67
D2-0000Z 35/7 52/4 --+-- --+-- 87/11 364/78
D2-0100Z 72/2 6/0 - - 78/2 442/80
D2-0200Z 80/1 3/0 - - 83/1 525/81
D2-0300Z 70/1 8/0 - - 78/1 603/82
D2-0400Z 44/0 16/0 - - 60/0 663/82
D2-0500Z 24/0 25/1 - - 49/1 712/83
D2-0600Z 8/0 7/0 - - 15/0 727/83 36
D2-0700Z - - - - 0/0 727/83 60
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 727/83 60
D2-0900Z - - - - 0/0 727/83 60
D2-1000Z - - - - 0/0 727/83 60
D2-1100Z 15/0 7/0 - - 22/0 749/83 28
D2-1200Z 15/0 25/0 - - 40/0 789/83
D2-1300Z 5/0 21/0 11/0 - 37/0 826/83
D2-1400Z - 17/0 27/0 - 44/0 870/83
D2-1500Z - 13/0 30/0 - 43/0 913/83
D2-1600Z --+-- 3/0 26/0 6/0 35/0 948/83
D2-1700Z - 23/0 33/0 - 56/0 1004/83
D2-1800Z - 5/0 5/0 - 10/0 1014/83 43
D2-1900Z - 2/0 32/0 5/0 39/0 1053/83
D2-2000Z - - 33/0 8/0 41/0 1094/83
D2-2100Z - 4/0 24/0 1/0 29/0 1123/83
D2-2200Z - 11/0 20/0 - 31/0 1154/83 37
D2-2300Z 2/0 13/0 14/0 - 29/0 1183/83
D3-0000Z 1/0 3/0 2/0 --+-- 6/0 1189/83 50
D3-0100Z 10/0 27/0 - - 37/0 1226/83
D3-0200Z 8/0 28/0 - - 36/0 1262/83
Total: 389/11 357/8 402/29 114/35
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