CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 45
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 49 12 29
80: 504 21 80
40: 1305 33 107
20: 1145 33 112
15: 964 34 118
10: 1014 27 104
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Total: 4981 160 550 Total Score = 10,242,460
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
This contest revealed that the station and the operator are starting to show
some signs of aging. Multiple hardware issues and an inability to set the alarm
clock were all part of the game.
Given the great conditions expected I decided at the last minute not to use the
DX Cluster, but do it on my own. There was stiff competition, but perhaps a new
record to be set.
Discovered Friday night that both of my 160m antennas were intermittent. Was
having trouble working anyone and the other bands were so good that I didn't
try to spend much time there.
Felt good the first night and decided to skip taking a nap. It was a good move
because 20m was open early at 0900z.
Fantastic rates on Sat morning. Had 3 consecutive hours over 190! Don't think
I have had more than 1 ever before. SH5 says the best 60 minutes was 204.
Wow! And I sent my call after EVERY QSO.
Noticed that the signal levels were dropping on 10m. I assume a bad connection
somewhere in the feedline or StackMatch. Something to work on.
Was on record pace at the 24 hour mark. 2908/147/453 at 5.03M. Potential to
make 11 Meg! USA record was 10.2M.
Was running Sat evening around 0100z on 40m when the noise level suddenly went
to 20 over 9. Looked outside and it was a very light snow flurry! Took a break
for some food and a shower. When I got back 20 minutes later the noise was
gone. Lucky! Added bonus - the 160 antennas seemed to be working.
Was feeling good on Sat evening so had thoughts of going the full 48 hours.
Knew that might be the only way to beat the tough competition. Started getting
loopy (i.e., falling asleep during QSOs) around 0800z. Decided to take a short
nap at 0845z.
I set the alarm on my iPhone, but didn't notice the phone was set to silent
mode. Amazingly, I woke up on my own at 1200z. Surprised I didn't sleep for
more given how long I had been awake. Of course, 20m was already wide open so
I probably gave up a big chunk of QSOs.
Conditions on Sunday were OK, but didn't feel quite as good as Saturday. Rates
collapsed around 1800z and I lost focus. Went into DXer mode and chased
multipliers. Had given up on any chance for the record when I arrived on 40m
at 2030z. Found a clear spot at 7004.7 and was rewarded with a steady stream
of callers for the next 3 hours. Chased mults as I could on the second radio.
Broke the record, but it will not survive the log checking. Sure wish I had
just stayed awake or set the alarm correctly. All part of the game and why
setting records is not easy...
One final comment (rant?). It has become almost a waste of time for an
unassisted single op to tune across a band looking for mults. No one sends
their call sign any more. If you aren't in a rare zone, I have no way to know
that I should stop. And if you don't send your call I can't tell how long it
will be until you do. I worked VP2MMM once and had to wait more than 4 minutes
before he sent his call to see who I had worked.
There was many other times on Sunday when a guy would sent dit-dit or TU and
there were no callers. We would both wait for awhile and then he would call
CQ. If he had just sent his call, he would have had a QSO with me in less than
half of that time! It pays to advertise your call!!
Great to see CW so alive and well. Also to see the increase in activity from
China and India.
As always, it is amazing to see the score reports and realize how many active
multipliers I never heard. With activity spread out across hundreds of Khz
across 3-4 bands at at time, it is impossible to find them all.
Thanks to everyone who found their way into my log. And congratulations to
everyone who took advantage of the conditions to set a new score record.
Station Description:
Radio 1 �" Elecraft K3 + Alpha 76CA
Radio 2 �" Yeasu FT-1000D + Ameritron AL-1200
Tower 1 �" 100′ Rohn 45G
40-2CD @ 110′
2x 205CA @ 100′ / 50′
2x 105CA @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′
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′
WriteLog v11.17B + W5XD keyer for SO2R
Continental Breakdown
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 18 398 1115 930 778 890 4129 82.9
SA 5 16 23 31 29 51 155 3.1
NA 19 70 105 52 49 40 335 6.7
AS 2 8 31 98 83 7 229 4.6
AF 4 6 21 20 13 14 78 1.6
OC 1 6 9 14 12 11 53 1.1
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z --+-- --+-- 124/61 15/26 --+-- --+-- 139/87 139/87
0100Z 2/4 - 80/10 22/19 - - 104/33 243/120
0200Z 4/6 54/41 37/5 - - - 95/52 338/172
0300Z - 31/10 73/8 - - - 104/18 442/190
0400Z 13/12 15/8 34/1 - - - 62/21 504/211
0500Z - 60/6 22/8 - - - 82/14 586/225
0600Z 10/7 46/5 33/3 - - - 89/15 675/240
0700Z - 8/4 146/7 - - - 154/11 829/251
0800Z 1/1 12/5 77/7 4/5 --+-- --+-- 94/18 923/269
0900Z 1/2 8/8 14/8 50/20 - - 73/38 996/307
1000Z - - 11/6 69/12 - - 80/18 1076/325
1100Z - - 4/2 69/16 10/9 - 83/27 1159/352
1200Z - - - - 187/35 3/4 190/39 1349/391
1300Z - - - - 85/10 112/37 197/47 1546/438
1400Z - - - - 9/4 186/11 195/15 1741/453
1500Z - - - - 15/5 158/6 173/11 1914/464
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 46/13 95/8 141/21 2055/485
1700Z - - - - 116/2 35/16 151/18 2206/503
1800Z - - - 87/2 42/5 7/3 136/10 2342/513
1900Z - - - 147/9 9/7 - 156/16 2498/529
2000Z - - - 96/3 20/16 2/3 118/22 2616/551
2100Z - - - 82/3 10/7 20/15 112/25 2728/576
2200Z - - - 73/8 34/2 - 107/10 2835/586
2300Z - - 46/0 3/2 23/12 - 72/14 2907/600
0000Z --+-- --+-- 97/0 6/1 --+-- --+-- 103/1 3010/601
0100Z - 35/3 15/1 2/0 - - 52/4 3062/605 20
0200Z - 49/5 14/2 - - - 63/7 3125/612
0300Z 7/4 22/2 8/1 - - - 37/7 3162/619
0400Z 9/5 2/1 44/1 1/0 - - 56/7 3218/626
0500Z 2/0 50/0 - - - - 52/0 3270/626
0600Z - 75/0 2/0 - - - 77/0 3347/626
0700Z - 15/1 74/4 - - - 89/5 3436/631
0800Z --+-- 4/0 29/0 5/1 --+-- --+-- 38/1 3474/632 15
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 3474/632 60
1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 3474/632 60
1100Z - 1/2 - 98/1 15/4 - 114/7 3588/639 7
1200Z - - - 30/2 136/2 7/3 173/7 3761/646
1300Z - - - - 132/3 16/5 148/8 3909/654
1400Z - - - - 21/3 134/7 155/10 4064/664
1500Z - - - - 11/1 113/0 124/1 4188/665
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 12/0 13/1 79/1 104/2 4292/667
1700Z - - - 165/3 - 6/1 171/4 4463/671
1800Z - - - 68/2 11/4 17/5 96/11 4559/682
1900Z - - - 16/2 4/1 22/3 42/6 4601/688
2000Z - - 42/0 4/1 14/5 - 60/6 4661/694
2100Z - - 121/1 - 1/1 1/1 123/3 4784/697
2200Z - - 93/3 6/3 - 1/2 100/8 4884/705
2300Z - 17/0 65/1 15/4 - - 97/5 4981/710
Total: 49/41 504/101 1305/140 1145/145 964/152 1014/131
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 4 77 214 175 131 162 763
EA 14 43 37 27 25 146
F 2 18 42 41 27 45 175
G 1 23 67 53 36 60 240
HA 1 12 30 24 20 24 111
I 13 61 54 37 52 217
OK 2 23 68 56 49 40 238
S5 1 9 35 22 17 23 107
SM 14 27 21 26 27 115
SP 1 28 60 44 51 41 225
UA 17 97 79 91 68 352
UR 28 68 38 37 47 218
VE 13 37 29 15 16 7 117
Best rate
60 mins 204 23-Nov-2013 12:26 - 23-Nov-2013 13:26
6 Banders:
8P5A 9A1P CN2AA CR3L D4C DM5TI DR1A HK1NA LZ9W OL4A P3N P40L PJ2T PJ4Q
5 Banders: 74
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