CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST -- 1997
Call: K5ZD Country: United States
Mode: SSB Category: Multi Single
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q PREFIXES 0-point QSOs
160 28 94 3.4 11 11
80 324 1222 3.8 168 106
40 218 1096 5.0 68 29
20 1650 4205 2.5 498 229
15 65 172 2.6 24 2
10 18 54 3.0 4
-------------------------------------- = 377
Totals 2303 6843 3.0 773 = 5,289,639
Operators: K5GA, W5ASP, K5ZD
Hours of operation: 43.7 (4.3 hours off to sleep!)
I will let K5GA and W5ASP write up their impressions of the weekend
since they did almost all of the operating. Here are a few things I
noticed:
- Easter hurts activity a lot. Solar disturbances hurt activity a
lot. Together, the combination made for some slow hours!
- Sunrise here is 1030Z. From 1030Z to 1200Z on Day 1 we made about
10 QSOs. Only slightly better on Day 2. That's beyond bad...normally
the band opens with the sun.
- Very noisy first night from storms in W8/W9. Second night we had a
thunderstorm pass very close (thunderstorms in New England in March
are somewhat rare). Rain static was almost worse than the static
crashes. Had to use the Beverage to hear on all bands.
- We logged everything that called. We did not search for USA QSOs.
If same country counted 1 point, score would have been 5.58M. About
5% increase (although you can be sure we would have worked more W's if
they counted for something).
Continent Statistics
K5ZD CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Single 30 Mar 1997 1658z
160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent
North America SSB 15 150 48 293 19 0 525 22.6
South America SSB 0 16 16 48 40 18 138 5.9
Europe SSB 11 152 135 1202 1 0 1501 64.5
Asia SSB 0 3 4 58 0 0 65 2.8
Africa SSB 2 4 1 36 5 0 48 2.1
Oceania SSB 0 2 14 34 0 0 50 2.1
- Only worked 3 JA's all weekend! All those Asians on 20m are UA9's and 4X4's.
- Thrilled to work JY9QJ on 75m with a big signal. Surprised to see
he only worked 98 QSOs on the band...
- Very difficult to hold a frequency on 20m and it wasn't because of
high USA activity/competition. The conditions were down a bit and
there must have been short skip in EU because it was almost impossible
to defend a frequency from loud Europeans. We were forced to change
frequencies quite often -- which always made it a challenge to find a
new spot!
- Wish I could have provided better conditions for my visitors from
Texas -- but I think they got the idea of what being a W1 is like!
They left mumbling something about only operating from the Carribbean
from now on...
73 - Randy, K5ZD
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K5ZD CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST Multi Single
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... 9/9 29/29 11/11 ..... 49/49 49/49
1 . . 23/23 32/28 . . 55/51 104/100
2 . 73/52 . 4/2 . . 77/54 181/154
3 . 57/34 . . . . 57/34 238/188
4 28/11 17/14 . . . . 45/25 283/213
5 . . 9/4 22/10 . . 31/14 314/227
6 . 30/18 2/0 10/0 . . 42/18 356/245
7 . 18/10 19/10 1/0 . . 38/20 394/265
8 ..... 9/3 19/8 2/2 ..... ..... 30/13 424/278
9 . 11/5 1/1 6/3 . . 18/9 442/287
10 . 13/7 3/0 6/3 . . 22/10 464/297
11 . . . 3/0 . . 3/0 467/297
12 . . . 104/59 . . 104/59 571/356
13 . . . 119/51 . . 119/51 690/407
14 . . . 119/39 . . 119/39 809/446
15 . . . 129/34 . . 129/34 938/480
16 ..... ..... ..... 123/24 ..... ..... 123/24 1061/504
17 . . . 110/16 . . 110/16 1171/520
18 . . . 103/27 . . 103/27 1274/547
19 . . . 39/13 14/4 . 53/17 1327/564
20 . . . 40/12 13/4 . 53/16 1380/580
21 . . 4/0 18/3 15/3 . 37/6 1417/586
22 . . 24/2 . . 18/4 42/6 1459/592
23 . . 35/2 9/4 . . 44/6 1503/598
0 ..... 24/5 10/2 3/1 ..... ..... 37/8 1540/606
1 . 24/2 . 3/1 . . 27/3 1567/609
2 . 19/5 . . . . 19/5 1586/614
3 . 2/1 10/3 . . . 12/4 1598/618
4 . 4/2 3/0 . . . 7/2 1605/620
5 . 16/7 2/1 . . . 18/8 1623/628
6 . 7/3 . . . . 7/3 1630/631
7 . . . . . . . 1630/631
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 1630/631
9 . . . . . . . 1630/631
10 . . 2/0 . . . 2/0 1632/631
11 . . . 31/6 . . 31/6 1663/637
12 . . . 84/26 . . 84/26 1747/663
13 . . . 69/16 . . 69/16 1816/679
14 . . . 57/9 . . 57/9 1873/688
15 . . . 27/5 5/1 . 32/6 1905/694
16 ..... ..... ..... 53/10 7/1 ..... 60/11 1965/705
17 . . . 67/7 . . 67/7 2032/712
18 . . . 61/22 . . 61/22 2093/734
19 . . . 65/10 . . 65/10 2158/744
20 . . . 69/11 . . 69/11 2227/755
21 . . 2/0 26/9 . . 28/9 2255/764
22 . . 28/3 2/2 . . 30/5 2285/769
23 . . 13/0 5/4 . . 18/4 2303/773
DAY1 28/11 228/143 148/59 1028/359 53/22 18/4 ..... 1503/598
DAY2 . 96/25 70/9 622/139 12/2 . . 800/175
TOT 28/11 324/168 218/68 1650/498 65/24 18/4 . 2303/773
DAY1 0.6/48 4.4/51 4.6/32 13.0/79 1.0/54 0.5/40 ..... 24.0/63
DAY2 . 3.8/25 4.0/17 11.2/55 0.5/23 . . 19.6/41
TOT 0.6/48 8.3/39 8.6/25 24.2/68 1.5/43 0.5/40 . 43.7/53
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Randy Thompson Amateur Radio Call: K5ZD
11 Hollis Street
Uxbridge, MA 01569
H (508) 278-2355 E-mail: k5zd@ultranet.com
W (617) 461-9100 x-150
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