CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: AK1W
Operator(s): K5ZD W1UJ
Station: K5ZD
Class: M/S HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 19
80: 387
40: 766
20: 1436
15: 1709
10: 99
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Total: 4416 Prefixes = 1365 Total Score = 17,583,930
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
We finally got good conditions for a contest weekend! There was more activity
than the bands could hold. Stations were stacked 2 and 3 deep on 15 and 20
meters. 10 meters was an oasis of quiet with loud signals from the South. 40
was excellent, but 75 Khz is not enough. No one listens split any more.
Jay did most of the operating. We did it tag team style. Only one operator at
a time. When one got tired we would switch and the off duty op would get some
sleep. We did not do a good job of managing the band changes to get
multipliers.
We found the first night to be difficult. 75m working split was the only place
we could penetrate the European wall of QRM.
Couple of really great hours to start the morning on 20m, but 15m never really
seemed to get going. Band was open, but signals were weak, so hard to hold a
frequency. Sat afternoon though the bands really came alive. Running on 15m
and having Europeans and loud JAs coming back at the same time. For hours!
Sunday the bands were better. Even the UA9's on 15 meters were booming in.
Always fun to get called by a YB0 or 4S7 at an unexpected time.
The score really takes off in this contest. Never made 17 million points in a
contest before! :)
We chased the WW2DX guys on getscores all weekend. Couldn't get the score
poster to work so did it manually when one of us thought about it.
Log checking could be painful. There were many QSOs where it was difficult
enough to get the callsign, much less a QSO number. Lots of requests for
repeats (only to have the missing digit obliterated by QRM each time).
Between ARRL DX, RDXC, and now WPX, both Jay and I are contested out. Good
thing WPX CW is 2 months away so we can recover. Thanks to Jay for coming
over. Thanks to everyone for helping us have so much fun.
Station Description
Radio 1 - Elecraft K3 + Alpha 76CA
Radio 2 - Yeasu FT-1000D + Ameritron AL-1200
Tower 1 - 100' Rohn 45G
40-2CD @ 110'
205CA @ 100' / 50'
5-el 15 @70' / 35'
160m 1/4-wave GP with 4 elevated radials
Tower 2 - 90' Rohn 25G
6-el 10 @90' with 4/4 @ 60'/30'
40m 1/2-wave sloper to west
80m wire 4 square hanging from tower with 16 radials per vertical
160m shunt feed tower with 32 radials
Tower 3 - 40' Rohn 25G
TH7DXX at 40'
As always, some numbers to help tell the story.
QSOs by Continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 3 188 250 982 1301 4 2728 61.8
NA 16 184 430 283 216 32 1161 26.3
SA 0 6 43 31 48 55 183 4.1
AS 0 1 10 119 114 0 244 5.5
OC 0 3 25 10 19 6 63 1.4
AF 0 5 8 11 11 2 37 0.8
Rates
QSO/Pref by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
0000Z --+-- --+-- 4/4 105/82 21/20 --+-- 130/106 130/106
0100Z - - 28/26 12/10 - - 40/36 170/142
0200Z - 38/32 5/5 - - - 43/37 213/179
0300Z - 51/40 9/4 - - - 60/44 273/223
0400Z - 44/32 14/10 8/5 - - 66/47 339/270
0500Z - 100/62 - - - - 100/62 439/332
0600Z - 36/16 40/18 - - - 76/34 515/366
0700Z 4/4 28/11 56/27 - - - 88/42 603/408
0800Z --+-- 1/1 91/45 --+-- --+-- --+-- 92/46 695/454
0900Z 1/1 20/6 57/22 5/2 - - 83/31 778/485
1000Z - - - 168/91 - - 168/91 946/576
1100Z - - - 75/38 70/27 - 145/65 1091/641
1200Z - - - - 122/46 - 122/46 1213/687
1300Z - - - 1/1 90/27 - 91/28 1304/715
1400Z - - - 29/14 59/18 - 88/32 1392/747
1500Z - - - - 133/34 - 133/34 1525/781
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 112/36 --+-- 112/36 1637/817
1700Z - - - - 69/15 9/5 78/20 1715/837
1800Z - - - 85/16 - 2/0 87/16 1802/853
1900Z - - - 54/12 30/7 - 84/19 1886/872
2000Z - - - 1/1 129/22 - 130/23 2016/895
2100Z - - - - 129/38 - 129/38 2145/933
2200Z - - - 10/1 56/24 43/17 109/42 2254/975
2300Z - - - 96/21 1/1 2/2 99/24 2353/999
0000Z --+-- --+-- 3/0 59/17 19/4 --+-- 81/21 2434/1020
0100Z - - 15/2 41/9 - - 56/11 2490/1031
0200Z - - 38/9 27/9 - - 65/18 2555/1049
0300Z - 39/11 30/5 - - - 69/16 2624/1065
0400Z - 15/3 37/6 - - - 52/9 2676/1074
0500Z - 5/0 64/10 - - - 69/10 2745/1084
0600Z 14/0 - 51/7 6/1 - - 71/8 2816/1092
0700Z - 1/0 74/11 - - - 75/11 2891/1103
0800Z --+-- 9/1 37/4 --+-- --+-- --+-- 46/5 2937/1108
0900Z - - 14/4 35/9 - - 49/13 2986/1121
1000Z - - - 68/10 - - 68/10 3054/1131
1100Z - - - 101/14 - - 101/14 3155/1145
1200Z - - - 47/6 57/11 - 104/17 3259/1162
1300Z - - - - 147/25 - 147/25 3406/1187
1400Z - - - 1/1 132/20 - 133/21 3539/1208
1500Z - - - - 95/16 - 95/16 3634/1224
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 2/2 70/10 1/1 73/13 3707/1237
1700Z - - - 3/3 64/8 - 67/11 3774/1248
1800Z - - - 1/1 40/8 19/7 60/16 3834/1264
1900Z - - - 119/11 - 4/4 123/15 3957/1279
2000Z - - - 125/19 - 7/7 132/26 4089/1305
2100Z - - - 122/15 - 3/3 125/18 4214/1323
2200Z - - - 27/3 45/11 9/4 81/18 4295/1341
2300Z - - 99/18 3/2 19/4 - 121/24 4416/1365
Total: 19/5 387/215 766/237 1436/426 1709/432 99/50
Two stations on 6 bands: WC6H NX5M
Five bands: F4FLQ HG2011N P40M YN2ET
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