CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K4ZW
Operator(s): K4ZW
Station: N3HBX
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 47
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 102 19 61
80: 617 28 84
40: 984 36 110
20: 970 36 108
15: 783 27 94
10: 125 20 54
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Total: 3581 166 511 Total Score = 6,876,289
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
First, a HUGH thanks to John Evans N3HBX for the use of his new station for the
weekend. John has engineered and built a very competitive station that will no
doubt be making plenty of noise in the years to come. I approached John this
summer about the possibility of using it for CQ WW CW. For single ops, CQ WW
CW is the most competitive in my opinion. I wanted to see how I would fare
going into battle with a vastly superior antenna farm compared to what I have
at my home station. No doubt it helped but K5ZDâ??s score, and maybe others,
show I still have a ways to go to close the gap. Randyâ??s numbers are
phenomenal and, he got 3 hours of sleep to boot!
Mark KD4D, my 40-meter partner at W3LPLâ??s for ARRL CW, helped me set up
Johnâ??s station on Monday night prior to the contest. I wanted to stick with
Writelog and my SO2R box. I arrived Johnâ??s at 2 PM Friday. After booting
everything up and taking the station for a test spin, I decided it was time for
a pre contest nap. I have a hard time sleeping during the day, even at home. I
may have dozed off for a few minutes on the cot but that was about it until I
took an hour break at 07Z on the second day.
I started the contest running on 40 and the second radio S&Ping on 20. 20
yielded just 3 QSOâ??s and the rate on 40 was pretty slow. I decided to jump
to 80 with the 3-element wire beam on Europe and bingo; I was off to the races!
The 10-meter opening to Europe was fun. Many of the signals were just above
the noise. I should have made more than one attempt at running stations on 160
with the 3-element wire beam when signals from Europe were loud. The one time I
did, someone scolded me for bad key clicks. Sorry but my radios at home are
modified. Iâ??ll mention it to John.
By early Sunday morning, I had worked every zone (aggregate of all bands)
except 23 & 36. After I snagged JT1C on 40, I thought hey, maybe I have a
chance to get them all this weekend. As the day went on, no sign of zone 36
anywhere. I kept hoping my fellow IBB employee S9SS would show up but time was
winding down. Finally at 20:21Z I came across a 5NN 36 on the second radio and
there was S9SS. A minute later he was in the log!
To echo K5ZDâ??s comment, there were numerous times during the weekend when
I asked myself why Iâ??m doing this. It happens when operating from home too.
Yet in the aftermath, I realize just what a blast I had and Iâ??m sure Iâ??ll be
back for more.
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
OffTime
D1-0000Z --+-- 37/28 37/33 3/2 --+-- --+-- 77/63 77/63
D1-0100Z - 90/19 14/17 - - - 104/36 181/99
D1-0200Z - 88/7 23/16 - - - 111/23 292/122
D1-0300Z - 62/3 16/10 - - - 78/13 370/135
D1-0400Z 13/14 61/0 6/3 - - - 80/17 450/152
D1-0500Z 12/15 57/5 - - - - 69/20 519/172
D1-0600Z 21/18 19/2 - - - - 40/20 559/192
D1-0700Z - 44/16 2/0 - - - 46/16 605/208
D1-0800Z 5/4 --+-- 27/13 --+-- --+-- --+-- 32/17 637/225
D1-0900Z 4/2 4/4 12/11 - - - 20/17 657/242
D1-1000Z - 3/4 9/4 - - - 12/8 669/250
D1-1100Z 3/0 5/3 3/2 31/19 - - 42/24 711/274
D1-1200Z - - 4/2 127/27 2/4 - 133/33 844/307
D1-1300Z - - - 74/6 60/28 - 134/34 978/341
D1-1400Z - - - 7/2 155/20 1/2 163/24 1141/365
D1-1500Z - - - - 125/8 8/15 133/23 1274/388
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 105/5 8/10 113/15 1387/403
D1-1700Z - - - 125/5 12/10 - 137/15 1524/418
D1-1800Z - - - 81/4 20/16 - 101/20 1625/438
D1-1900Z - - 34/2 29/10 4/2 4/4 71/18 1696/456
D1-2000Z - - 105/8 17/10 - - 122/18 1818/474
D1-2100Z - - 95/4 2/2 9/3 - 106/9 1924/483
D1-2200Z - - 80/2 - 5/5 - 85/7 2009/490
D1-2300Z - - 39/2 30/6 - - 69/8 2078/498
D2-0000Z 21/14 --+-- --+-- 11/7 --+-- --+-- 32/21 2110/519
D2-0100Z - 9/3 67/0 3/1 - - 79/4 2189/523
D2-0200Z 3/3 7/1 48/1 - - - 58/5 2247/528
D2-0300Z 8/5 21/3 - - - - 29/8 2276/536
D2-0400Z 2/2 59/6 1/0 - - - 62/8 2338/544
D2-0500Z 2/1 7/0 12/2 - - - 21/3 2359/547
D2-0600Z 7/2 34/0 - - - - 41/2 2400/549
D2-0700Z - - 51/3 - - - 51/3 2451/552
15
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 9/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 9/0 2460/552
60
D2-0900Z 1/0 1/0 66/1 - - - 68/1 2528/553
D2-1000Z - - 24/3 5/5 - - 29/8 2557/561
D2-1100Z - 4/5 1/0 48/5 - - 53/10 2610/571
D2-1200Z - - 2/4 99/3 20/0 - 121/7 2731/578
D2-1300Z - - - - 32/2 77/21 109/23 2840/601
D2-1400Z - - - - 69/1 9/7 78/8 2918/609
D2-1500Z - - - - 124/1 9/8 133/9 3051/618
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 85/6 10/2 3/4 98/12 3149/630
D2-1700Z - - - 67/3 15/7 - 82/10 3231/640
D2-1800Z - - - 69/6 6/2 1/1 76/9 3307/649
D2-1900Z - - 24/0 22/9 - 3/0 49/9 3356/658
D2-2000Z - - 64/2 - 9/5 2/2 75/9 3431/667
D2-2100Z - - 62/0 6/0 - - 68/0 3499/667
D2-2200Z - 5/2 12/0 4/2 1/0 - 22/4 3521/671
D2-2300Z - - 35/0 25/4 - - 60/4 3581/675
Total: 102/80 617/111 984/145 970/144 783/121 125/74
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 51 477 793 746 666 77 2810 78.5
AS 1 7 27 74 5 0 114 3.2
SA 7 9 25 32 40 20 133 3.7
NA 33 99 99 84 47 18 380 10.6
AF 7 17 20 23 19 10 96 2.7
OC 3 8 19 10 6 0 46 1.3
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
3B8 1 2 1 1 5
3X 1 1 2
4L 1 1 2
4X 1 4 2 3 4 14
5A 1 1 1 1 4
5B 1 2 3
5H 1 1 2 1 5
5Z 1 1
6W 1 1 2 1 2 1 8
6Y 1 1 2
8P 1 1 2 1 1 1 7
8Q 1 1
9A 7 19 17 10 3 56
9G 1 1 2
9H 1 1
9K 1 1
9M6 1 1 1 3
9V 1 1
9Y 1 1 1 1 1 5
BY 1 1
C3 1 1
C6 1 1 2 3 1 8
CE 1 2 1 4
CM 1 2 1 1 5
CN 1 1
CT 2 1 1 1 2 7
CT3 1 3 2 2 2 1 11
CU 1 2 1 1 5
CX 1 2 1 4
DL 6 87 145 162 162 12 574
EA 1 13 34 31 26 1 106
EA6 1 2 2 1 1 7
EA8 1 5 5 7 5 1 24
EA9 1 1
EI 1 2 3 5 1 12
ER 1 3 1 5
ES 1 2 3 1 7
EU 4 5 5 3 17
F 2 22 47 48 51 13 183
FK 1 1
FM 1 1
FO 1 1
FR 1 1
FY 1 1
G 2 27 49 51 59 10 198
GD 2 2 1 2 3 10
GI 1 1 3 1 1 7
GJ 1 1 1 3
GM 2 7 5 8 5 27
GM/s 1 1
GU 1 1 2
GW 4 4 8 3 2 21
HA 16 19 19 21 4 79
HB 8 13 10 13 2 46
HB0 1 1
HC 1 1 1 3
HC8 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
HI 1 1 1 3
HK 1 1 2 1 5
HK0/a 1 1 1 1 4
HP 1 1 2
HR 1 1
HS 2 2
I 1 13 42 36 37 7 136
IG9 1 1 1 1 1 5
IS 1 3 1 3 1 9
IT9 1 1 1 3
J7 1 1 1 1 4
JA 1 6 52 1 60
JT 1 1
K 2 36 24 26 6 7 101
KH2 1 1 1 1 4
KH6 3 4 2 1 2 12
KL 1 1 2
KP2 1 1 2
KP4 1 1 1 1 3 1 8
LA 2 3 4 3 1 13
LU 1 3 2 9 5 20
LX 1 1
LY 1 12 6 12 5 36
LZ 14 17 5 14 1 51
OE 4 16 3 9 32
OH 8 9 9 2 28
OH0 2 1 1 1 5
OK 3 60 69 54 57 243
OM 2 10 23 11 12 3 61
ON 1 4 8 11 8 3 35
OX 1 1 2 4
OY 1 1
OZ 5 6 3 7 21
P4 2 3 4 5 5 2 21
PA 1 7 23 22 34 4 91
PJ2 1 1 1 2 2 1 8
PY 2 1 10 13 10 5 41
PZ 1 1 1 1 1 5
S5 2 22 27 13 18 2 84
S9 1 1 2
SM 2 4 8 16 6 36
SP 2 20 41 32 28 123
ST 1 1
SV 1 3 5 1 1 1 12
SV5 1 1
SV9 1 1
T9 2 2 4 3 1 12
TF 2 4 6
TI 1 1 2 3 2 1 10
TK 1 1 1 3
TU 1 1
TZ 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
UA 1 22 36 56 6 121
UA2 1 2 3 1 7
UA9 1 8 10 19
UN 3 2 5
UR 2 31 40 33 12 118
V2 1 1 1 1 4
V3 1 1 1 1 4
V4 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
V5 1 1 2
VE 18 47 51 33 18 3 170
VK 2 9 1 12
VP2M 1 1 2
VP2V 1 1 2
VP5 1 1 1 1 4
VP8/h 1 1 2
VP9 1 1
VR 1 1
VU 1 1
XE 1 2 4 5 3 1 16
XU 1 1
YB 1 1
YL 2 5 5 1 1 14
YN 1 1 1 3
YO 3 13 15 11 42
YU 1 14 18 22 22 1 78
YV 1 2 2 1 6
Z3 3 1 2 1 7
ZA 2 1 3
ZC4 1 1
ZF 1 1 1 1 4
ZK1/n 1 1
ZL 1 4 4 2 11
ZP 1 1 2
ZS 1 2 3 3 4 1 14
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