CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2021
Call: ZF1A
Operator(s): W9KKN KI6RRN N2NL WD6T KN8U NT6V
Station: ZF1A
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Grand Cayman
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Remote Operation
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 378 17 61
80: 1100 25 89
40: 2064 35 115
20: 1926 37 119
15: 2253 33 117
10: 127 21 32
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Total: 7848 168 533 Total Score = 13,440,974
Club: Multiple
Comments:
First of all, thanks again to our always generous host Andrew / ZF1EJ for
letting us use his station remotely. The Cayman border has been closed for most
of the pandemic to outside visitors, only recently opening up. We really miss
in-person multiops and can't wait to visit again. We also have a growing list of
minor things we want to fix; being unable to access the station it has held
together surprisingly well given the harshness of the Caribbean weather.
But here we are, folks, CQ WW CW, the pinnacle of the contest season, the one we
look forward to all year. Typically at ZF1A, this contest belongs to ZF2MJ/N6MJ,
who, after several years operating ZF1A in person (and a few remote
appearances), decided that he'd try out this year TI7W with Chris at NP4Z. It
was exciting watching the race and preparation leading up to that, and
congratulations to both, despite the confusion of #whosucks :) But with nobody
else operating ZF, we elected to host a rare remote M/S effort for WW CW (as had
previously occurred for WW SSB), and we put together a team that seemed to work
together as well as we could have hoped.
Our goals were simple:
1) Have fun -- a few of us had never had the chance to operate WWCW from the DX
side. It was terrific to be able to welcome a few guys over to that world. A few
deer-in-headlights moments indeed occurred from the mind-blowing pileups, but we
survived unscathed.
2) Do well -- we tried to maximize the station's capabilities with two operating
positions (Run and Mult) along with a distributed DXLog setup using a
combination of the Gab, Slack, and Zoom. We managed to keep the operating
positions staffed for the whole thing with many family obligations and such for
various team members being satisfied.
Goals Achieved. We're really quite happy with the result. Not sure if exactly
this band of ops or circumstance will repeat itself, but I'd operate with any of
these dudes again any time. We also had a lot of help from N6MJ and NN1C leading
up to the contest, so thanks for the scheduling help and advice and such.
We had a few minor hiccups, as you might expect. Some internet peering issues
caused some packet loss to a few of our team members, but we were largely able
to work around them. We also got some reports of some less-than-perfect CW
keying sometimes -- some of us were using the RRC winkeyer, and others were
using RTS/CTS keying. It seems that both had their advantages and disadvantages
as well as quirks. The jury is still out on which of the two is actually
better.
In terms of propagation, the expectations were high, but we didn't quite get
everything that we wanted out of 10m. The news wasn't all bad, though, with some
of the 160m openings into Europe being quite stellar -- our beverages were
particularly quiet this weekend and made the difference several times for the
QSO.
Amps, Radios, and GHE held together pretty well -- the packet cluster managed to
break our logger a few times.
Anyway, thanks for the Q's, everyone, and we'll see you in the next one!
Vy 73, from Bill/W9KKN/ZF2WF on behalf of team ZF1A.
And now, for some cab stats:
Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV
http://bit.ly/cabstat
CONTEST: CQ-WW-CW
CALLSIGN: ZF1A
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: MULTI-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: W9KKN KI6RRN N2NL WD6T KN8U NT6V
--> 4U9A has an unknown country prefix.
-------------- 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 2 107 139 1 0 249 249 3.2
0100 6 28 243 1 0 0 278 527 6.7
0200 6 14 240 0 0 0 260 787 10.0
0300 101 7 128 0 0 0 236 1023 13.0
0400 123 53 0 0 0 0 176 1199 15.3
0500 4 178 9 0 0 0 191 1390 17.7
0600 10 138 3 0 0 0 151 1541 19.6
0700 1 37 98 0 0 0 136 1677 21.4
0800 1 8 122 0 0 0 131 1808 23.0
0900 0 1 125 7 0 0 133 1941 24.7
1000 0 132 11 0 0 0 143 2084 26.6
1100 0 28 92 45 0 0 165 2249 28.7
1200 0 0 0 197 60 1 258 2507 32.0
1300 0 0 0 23 230 1 254 2761 35.2
1400 0 0 0 7 221 8 236 2997 38.2
1500 0 0 0 101 92 1 194 3191 40.7
1600 0 0 0 2 181 56 239 3430 43.7
1700 0 0 0 5 166 22 193 3623 46.2
1800 0 0 0 3 169 15 187 3810 48.6
1900 0 0 0 193 19 2 214 4024 51.3
2000 0 0 0 78 120 0 198 4222 53.8
2100 0 0 0 195 2 0 197 4419 56.3
2200 0 0 3 46 93 0 142 4561 58.1
2300 0 1 2 170 0 0 173 4734 60.3
0000 1 1 167 6 0 0 175 4909 62.6
0100 1 2 137 0 0 0 140 5049 64.4
0200 3 104 25 0 0 0 132 5181 66.0
0300 2 190 2 0 0 0 194 5375 68.5
0400 74 56 1 0 0 0 131 5506 70.2
0500 38 65 0 0 0 0 103 5609 71.5
0600 6 27 59 1 0 0 93 5702 72.7
0700 1 1 130 0 0 0 132 5834 74.4
0800 0 1 109 0 0 0 110 5944 75.8
0900 0 26 35 0 0 0 61 6005 76.5
1000 0 0 86 0 0 0 86 6091 77.6
1100 0 0 72 77 2 0 151 6242 79.6
1200 0 0 0 82 116 0 198 6440 82.1
1300 0 0 0 11 148 1 160 6600 84.1
1400 0 0 0 23 110 1 134 6734 85.8
1500 0 0 0 1 119 1 121 6855 87.4
1600 0 0 0 106 3 16 125 6980 89.0
1700 0 0 0 26 76 0 102 7082 90.3
1800 0 0 0 67 32 0 99 7181 91.5
1900 0 0 0 78 17 2 97 7278 92.8
2000 0 0 2 86 42 0 130 7408 94.4
2100 0 0 0 0 170 0 170 7578 96.6
2200 0 0 0 78 61 0 139 7717 98.4
2300 0 0 55 71 2 0 128 7845 100.0
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Total 378 1100 2064 1925 2252 127 7846
Gross QSOs=7986 Dupes=140 Net QSOs=7846
Unique callsigns worked = 4654
The best 60 minute rate was 280/hour from 0058 to 0157
The best 30 minute rate was 296/hour from 0000 to 0029
The best 10 minute rate was 324/hour from 0000 to 0009
The best 1 minute rates were:
8 QSOs/minute 1 times.
7 QSOs/minute 11 times.
6 QSOs/minute 83 times.
5 QSOs/minute 268 times.
4 QSOs/minute 523 times.
3 QSOs/minute 693 times.
2 QSOs/minute 642 times.
1 QSOs/minute 467 times.
----------------- C o n t i n e n t S u m m a r y -----------------
160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
---------------------------------------------------------------------
North America 261 637 1062 1169 1131 89 4349 55.4
South America 9 15 31 26 36 15 132 1.7
Europe 105 400 734 579 900 14 2732 34.8
Asia 1 39 208 128 150 0 526 6.7
Africa 1 4 10 12 18 7 52 0.7
Oceania 1 5 19 11 16 2 54 0.7
??? 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
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Total 378 1100 2064 1925 2252 127 7846
Number of letters in callsigns
Letters # worked
-----------------
3 46
4 3640
5 2551
6 1575
7 12
8 16
9 5
10 1
------------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------
Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3B8 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
3D2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
3V 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
4J 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
4L 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.0
4O 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
*4U1V 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
4X 0 2 2 1 3 0 8 0.1
5B 1 1 2 2 4 0 10 0.1
5W 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
5Z 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
8P 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
9A 4 9 7 12 20 0 52 0.7
9G 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
9H 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
9K 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
9V 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
9X 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
9Y 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
A4 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
A6 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
BY 0 0 1 3 1 0 5 0.1
C5 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
C6 1 2 1 1 0 0 5 0.1
CE 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
CM 1 2 1 1 1 0 6 0.1
CN 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
CT 1 1 3 3 7 4 19 0.2
CT3 1 3 4 3 3 2 16 0.2
CU 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
CX 0 1 1 2 1 2 7 0.1
DL 19 79 140 114 172 0 524 6.7
DU 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
E7 2 2 8 3 5 0 20 0.3
EA 2 12 32 17 29 6 98 1.2
EA6 1 2 1 2 4 0 10 0.1
EA8 0 1 1 2 5 1 10 0.1
EA9 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
EI 1 2 2 3 6 0 14 0.2
EL 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
ER 0 2 2 1 1 0 6 0.1
ES 1 1 1 1 2 0 6 0.1
EU 2 2 7 6 8 0 25 0.3
EY 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
F 1 19 39 18 47 1 125 1.6
FK 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
FM 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
FR 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
FY 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
G 2 10 33 22 58 0 125 1.6
GD 0 1 2 1 1 0 5 0.1
GI 1 1 1 1 2 0 6 0.1
GJ 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
GM 1 5 4 6 12 1 29 0.4
GU 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
GW 0 1 1 2 6 0 10 0.1
HA 3 12 26 17 28 0 86 1.1
HB 1 8 9 8 7 0 33 0.4
HB0 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
HC 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
HH 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
HI 2 1 2 1 1 0 7 0.1
HK 0 1 1 3 1 0 6 0.1
HL 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 0.1
HP 0 1 1 1 2 0 5 0.1
HR 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
HS 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
HZ 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
I 4 30 58 40 71 0 203 2.6
IS 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
*IT9 1 2 3 4 5 0 15 0.2
JA 0 30 176 97 136 0 439 5.6
JW 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.0
K 229 571 958 1053 1021 69 3901 49.7
KG4 0 0 1 3 2 0 6 0.1
KH2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
KH6 1 4 2 2 4 1 14 0.2
KL 1 1 1 3 4 1 11 0.1
KP2 2 2 2 1 0 1 8 0.1
KP4 1 4 5 4 1 2 17 0.2
LA 4 2 9 3 10 0 28 0.4
LU 1 1 3 3 9 2 19 0.2
LX 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
LY 2 12 17 18 19 0 68 0.9
LZ 1 6 10 7 17 0 41 0.5
OA 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
OE 0 4 6 7 9 0 26 0.3
OH 3 12 21 8 19 0 63 0.8
OH0 0 1 2 1 1 0 5 0.1
OK 5 23 23 22 47 0 120 1.5
OM 4 5 10 10 11 0 40 0.5
ON 3 7 9 10 10 0 39 0.5
OX 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
OY 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.0
OZ 1 4 7 6 7 0 25 0.3
P4 2 2 3 1 1 1 10 0.1
PA 1 11 28 19 40 1 100 1.3
PJ2 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
PJ4 3 2 2 2 1 1 11 0.1
PJ7 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
PY 0 2 11 5 15 3 36 0.5
PZ 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.1
S5 2 2 14 14 21 0 53 0.7
S7 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
SM 3 10 20 11 15 0 59 0.8
SP 4 27 35 26 37 0 129 1.6
SV 0 4 9 3 8 0 24 0.3
SV5 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
SV9 0 1 1 1 2 0 5 0.1
TA 0 1 1 1 2 0 5 0.1
*TA1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0
TF 0 1 1 3 1 0 6 0.1
TG 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
TI 1 1 2 1 1 1 7 0.1
TK 1 1 1 1 2 1 7 0.1
UA 9 27 57 68 58 0 219 2.8
UA2 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 0.0
UA9 0 3 16 14 1 0 34 0.4
UK 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
UN 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.0
UR 8 18 28 25 35 0 114 1.5
V2 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
V3 1 1 2 1 1 0 6 0.1
V4 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
VE 16 42 76 88 83 14 319 4.1
VK 0 0 7 3 2 0 12 0.2
VK9N 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0
VP8 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
VP9 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.1
VU 0 1 1 2 0 0 4 0.1
XE 1 2 2 3 3 0 11 0.1
YB 0 0 2 1 2 0 5 0.1
YL 1 6 3 5 4 0 19 0.2
YO 2 4 11 9 11 0 37 0.5
YS 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
YU 3 7 18 9 13 0 50 0.6
Z6 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
YV 0 0 3 2 1 0 6 0.1
Z3 1 0 6 2 2 0 11 0.1
ZD7 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
ZF 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1
ZL 0 1 5 3 5 1 15 0.2
ZP 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.1
ZS 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.0
??? 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
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Total 378 1100 2064 1925 2252 127 7846
------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------
Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------
05 133 313 504 460 459 36 1905 24.3
04 94 235 383 454 445 19 1630 20.8
14 42 176 343 250 437 13 1261 16.1
15 41 158 262 205 322 1 989 12.6
03 18 63 148 226 203 27 685 8.7
25 0 30 178 98 137 0 443 5.6
16 19 49 94 99 102 0 363 4.6
20 4 19 38 24 48 0 133 1.7
08 10 15 16 14 10 4 69 0.9
09 7 8 12 12 7 5 51 0.7
11 0 3 12 6 16 3 40 0.5
33 1 4 7 6 11 3 32 0.4
07 3 5 7 6 6 1 28 0.4
13 1 2 4 5 10 5 27 0.3
17 0 0 8 12 1 0 21 0.3
32 0 1 7 4 7 1 20 0.3
18 0 1 9 4 0 0 14 0.2
31 1 4 2 2 3 1 13 0.2
01 1 1 1 4 4 1 12 0.2
06 1 2 2 3 3 0 11 0.1
21 0 1 4 3 2 0 10 0.1
02 1 3 2 2 1 1 10 0.1
10 1 2 2 2 2 1 10 0.1
30 0 0 6 2 2 0 10 0.1
40 0 2 1 4 2 0 9 0.1
35 0 0 1 3 2 1 7 0.1
39 0 0 1 2 2 1 6 0.1
28 0 0 2 2 2 0 6 0.1
19 0 2 2 1 0 0 5 0.1
22 0 1 1 2 0 0 4 0.1
36 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
12 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1
24 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 0.1
27 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.0
29 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.0
38 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.0
37 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0
26 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
23 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0
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Total 378 1100 2064 1925 2252 127 7846
Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands 2940
2 bands 826
3 bands 451
4 bands 306
5 bands 109
6 bands 22
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
K5TR TI7W ZF5T P44W PJ2T PJ4K
TK0C VE2IM W9SN K1TTT K0RF AA7A
N1RR CR6K W6YX KC1XX K9CT ND7K
K0MD FY5KE VA2UR ED1R
------- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O s ------
Band 160 80 40 20 15 10
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QSOs 120 270 817 730 973 30
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