CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB - 2020
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 34
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 54 9 24
80: 318 13 57
40: 355 21 71
20: 1671 29 104
15: 1409 25 98
10: 172 11 36
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Total: 3979 108 390 Total Score = 5,609,472
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Conditions were so bad 28 days earlier for CQ WW RTTY, I did not have high
expectations for this one. Wow, was I wrong. Conditions exceeded my wildest
hopes.
Operated in Classic mode for the whole contest. One radio. No cluster.
Since I was focused on a Classic entry I took 2 hours off to watch a movie
Friday night. When the rates exploded on Sunday morning, I went from #50 on the
scoreboard to closing in on the top ten. That changed my attitude and I shifted
from managing off times to trying to make the best score.
The contest was obviously different with fewer multi-ops and no expeditions. It
was a bit easier to find a frequency on 20 and 40. (Just a little, those bands
were still crowded!) But, it really hurt the multiplier. Decided I would just
focus on QSOs. Was still fun to have to make operating decisions about when to
run and when to tune for mults. The way contesting was before the cluster
connected everyone to everything. Missed some mults as a result, but figured if
I could keep close the assisted guys on the scoreboard I would be ok.
The rates on Sat morning were amazing. It matched what I did from the Caribbean
last year. Thanks to all the Italians, Germans, and Netherlanders that filled
the log. Not many Russians or JAs as the band just didn't open that deep.
Was running so much I didn't even check 10m on Sat morning. I did happen to go
there on Sun morning and was amazed to find some Eu signals. VO1CH was pinning
the s-meter so it must have been sporadic E. It sure sounded like a VHF contest
for awhile with lots of QSB and spotlight openings. Sure helped the score and
was fun to run without splatter.
CQ WW is always amazing and fun. Thanks to everyone who helped fill the bands
with excitement.
My score at 24 hours was somewhere around 3M.
Randy K5ZD
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z 1/2 25/20 40/32 9/13 --+-- --+-- 75/67 75/67
0100Z 6/6 27/9 8/1 19/5 - - 60/21 135/88
0200Z - 5/2 - - - - 5/2 140/90 55
0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 140/90 60
0400Z 11/8 4/2 77/20 - - - 92/30 232/120 1
0500Z 15/9 35/12 25/5 - - - 75/26 307/146
0600Z 8/3 61/5 - - - - 69/8 376/154
0700Z - 7/2 27/12 40/25 - - 74/39 450/193
0800Z 1/1 2/0 54/6 17/6 --+-- --+-- 74/13 524/206 13
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 524/206 60
1000Z 2/1 1/2 3/0 1/0 - - 7/3 531/209 49
1100Z - - 5/0 159/17 5/7 - 169/24 700/233
1200Z - - - 155/5 38/15 - 193/20 893/253
1300Z - - - - 225/19 - 225/19 1118/272
1400Z - - - - 212/11 - 212/11 1330/283
1500Z - - - - 224/11 - 224/11 1554/294
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 85/20 12/8 97/28 1651/322
1700Z - - - 104/5 32/1 6/0 142/6 1793/328
1800Z - - - 186/4 - - 186/4 1979/332
1900Z - - - 86/11 30/5 3/0 119/16 2098/348
2000Z - - - 133/9 - - 133/9 2231/357
2100Z - - - 145/4 5/3 - 150/7 2381/364
2200Z - - 13/0 16/4 4/5 - 33/9 2414/373 21
2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2414/373 60
0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2414/373 60
0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2414/373 60
0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2414/373 60
0300Z 5/2 20/5 14/4 - - - 39/11 2453/384 3
0400Z - - 6/1 - - - 6/1 2459/385 1
0500Z 2/1 81/5 - - - - 83/6 2542/391 60
0600Z - 47/5 10/2 - - - 57/7 2599/398
0700Z - 1/0 - - - - 1/0 2600/398 58
0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2600/398 60
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2600/398 60
1000Z 3/0 2/1 - - - - 5/1 2605/399 52
1100Z - - 2/0 130/6 - - 132/6 2737/405
1200Z - - - 36/0 97/8 - 133/8 2870/413
1300Z - - - - 177/9 - 177/9 3047/422
1400Z - - - - 14/1 99/24 113/25 3160/447
1500Z - - - - 131/2 4/1 135/3 3295/450
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 104/4 1/0 8/2 113/6 3408/456
1700Z - - - 21/1 56/1 7/6 84/8 3492/464
1800Z - - - - 13/1 25/4 38/5 3530/469 25
1900Z - - - 12/0 39/4 5/2 56/6 3586/475
2000Z - - - 134/2 - - 134/2 3720/477
2100Z - - - 94/3 10/0 3/0 107/3 3827/480
2200Z - - - 59/7 7/0 - 66/7 3893/487
2300Z - - 71/9 11/2 4/0 - 86/11 3979/498
Total: 54/33 318/70 355/92 1671/133 1409/123 172/47
Best 60 mins: 230 QSOs (24-Oct-2020 13:20 to 24-Oct-2020 14:19)
Worked on 6 bands: TM3R
Worked on 5 bands: CR6K DF0HQ DL0CS DM1A DP7D E7DX EA2W EC2DX EW5A F6KOP G0BNR
G6XX GM6NX HG5A HG7T II2S IQ4FA P40W PA9M PI4COM PJ4DX TM5A TM6M VE5MX VO1GRC
ZF1A
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 4 36 27 235 237 22 561
EA 3 27 24 104 101 10 269
F 1 28 32 64 82 23 230
G 2 17 20 151 147 8 345
I 25 28 147 169 8 377
K 9 16 33 75 20 3 156
ON 2 11 3 50 40 6 112
PA 1 14 3 69 53 7 147
SP 1 9 9 42 45 1 107
VE 14 26 28 29 19 1 117
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