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Subject: [3830] CQWW CW ZF5T(ZF9CW) SO(A)AB HP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: wa5rtg@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 19:10:07 +0000
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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2020

Call: ZF5T
Operator(s): ZF9CW
Station: ZF9CW

Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: Cayman Brac
Operating Time (hrs): 44

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  505    19       55
   80:  415    25       72
   40: 1296    32       96
   20: 1332    32       96
   15: 1335    26       91
   10:  540    21       49
------------------------------
Total: 5423   155      459  Total Score = 7,795,058

Club: BRCC

Comments:

This was the least effort I have had to make to get ready to operate a contest. 
When I arrived the computer did not work,  but I was able to use an old computer
and get everything working on it with the radio, amplifier, antenna switching,
etc.

We are here until the end of March and now on Day 10 of a 16 day mandatory
quarantine period, wearing a wrist bracelet and carrying a tracking device.  We
have a 30 meter radius from the center of the house which will allow me to go
most anywhere on my property including up the tower.  After all the radio over
the next four months I will be ready to go back, hopefully get a vaccine and
play golf every day.

I put up a couple of small triangle receiving antennas on the property and asked
a local to put a 1000 foot Beverage on the rocks pointed toward Europe.
 
The only drama during the contest was that my (Flex) amplifier would give a HIGH
SWR RFP message (whatever that means) on about half the transmissions on 80
meters.   It happened rarely on other bands but was not an issue because it was
so infrequent. When that message came on there was no power output until I
successfully keyed it again.  After struggling with it on 80 meters for a while
I turned the amplifier to standby and ran 100 watts.  I think my rate would be
better with 25 watts than 1500 anyway.  My biggest problem is not being able to
handle a raging pileup with everyone within about 250 Hz. of each other as well
as I would like.  Sometime on Saturday night I discovered that if I pressed the
transmit button on the IC-7610 the amplifier would work, so I used it to work
multipliers locking it in transmit for each transmission.  I assume it is an RF
overload problem.  If I can't figure it out, since I have a lot of time on my
hands, I may shunt feed the tower for 80 meters to see if that helps the
situation.

I like the assisted category but cannot muster the discipline to keep calling CQ
and use it effectively.  I will leave a big pileup and start busting pileups to
try to get the most multipliers.  


As compared to last year I picked up 9 zones and 36 countries on 10m and it was
good to finally work some Europe on that band again - but I lost 18 zones and
163 countries on 160-15!!  That was disappointing.  This year I operated four
hours less and made 300 more contacts.
  
73, happy holidays to everyone. and stay safe until you have a vaccine.  I want
to try to pull your callsign out of the pileup next year.

Stan, ZF9CW  

-------------- 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      0     71     76      0      0    147    147    2.7
0100       0      0    193      1      0      0    194    341    6.3
0200       0     62     91      0      0      0    153    494    9.1
0300      39    113      0      0      0      0    152    646   11.9
0400     167      0      0      0      0      0    167    813   15.0
0500      52     52      0      0      0      0    104    917   16.9
0600      81      0     35      0      0      0    116   1033   19.0
0700       0      0    160      0      0      0    160   1193   22.0
0800       0      3    103      0      0      0    106   1299   24.0
0900       2      2     86      0      0      0     90   1389   25.6
1000       0     37     14      0      0      0     51   1440   26.6
1100      37      3      0     80      0      0    120   1560   28.8
1200       0      0      0    178      0      0    178   1738   32.0
1300       0      0      0     33    127      0    160   1898   35.0
1400       0      0      0      0     46    127    173   2071   38.2
1500       0      0      0      0      0    216    216   2287   42.2
1600       0      0      0      0     95     18    113   2400   44.3
1700       0      0      0      0    169      0    169   2569   47.4
1800       0      0      0      0    127      8    135   2704   49.9
1900       0      0      0    124      0      7    131   2835   52.3
2000       0      0      0    101      0      0    101   2936   54.1
2100       0      0      0    184      0      0    184   3120   57.5
2200       0      0      0      1      0      0      1   3121   57.6
2300       0      0      0    118      0      0    118   3239   59.7
0000       0     14     61      0      0      0     75   3314   61.1
0100       0      4    119      0      0      0    123   3437   63.4
0200      53     10      0      0      0      0     63   3500   64.5
0300       0    105      0      0      0      0    105   3605   66.5
0400       2      3      0      0      0      0      5   3610   66.6
0500       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3610   66.6
0600       0      0      0      0      0      0      0   3610   66.6
0700      39      1     28      0      0      0     68   3678   67.8
0800       4      3     87      0      0      0     94   3772   69.6
0900       0      2     54      0      0      0     56   3828   70.6
1000       0      0    128      0      0      0    128   3956   72.9
1100      29      1      1     55      0      0     86   4042   74.5
1200       0      0      0    125      0      0    125   4167   76.8
1300       0      0      0      0    106      0    106   4273   78.8
1400       0      0      0      0    115      0    115   4388   80.9
1500       0      0      0      6     24     12     42   4430   81.7
1600       0      0      0      2      0    103    105   4535   83.6
1700       0      0      0      0     86     48    134   4669   86.1
1800       0      0      0      0    169      0    169   4838   89.2
1900       0      0      0      0    140      0    140   4978   91.8
2000       0      0      0    153      1      1    155   5133   94.7
2100       0      0      0     89     48      0    137   5270   97.2
2200       0      0      5      3     81      0     89   5359   98.8
2300       0      0     60      3      1      0     64   5423  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total    505    415   1296   1332   1335    540   5423

Gross QSOs=5462        Dupes=39        Net QSOs=5423

Unique callsigns worked = 3497

The best 60 minute rate was 220/hour from 1452 to 1551
The best 30 minute rate was 250/hour from 1750 to 1819
The best 10 minute rate was 258/hour from 1758 to 1807

The best 1 minute rates were:
 6 QSOs/minute    4 times.
 5 QSOs/minute   79 times.
 4 QSOs/minute  372 times.
 3 QSOs/minute  666 times.
 2 QSOs/minute  559 times.
 1 QSOs/minute  400 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    396    283    721    862    867    425   3554   65.5
South America      4      5      8     16     20     13     66    1.2
Europe            96    106    361    375    363     90   1391   25.7
Asia               0      7    156     47     46      0    256    4.7
Africa             2      4      4      4      9      7     30    0.6
Oceania            2      3     17      6      3      1     32    0.6
???                5      7     29     22     27      4     94    1.7
--------------------------------------------------------------
Total            505    415   1296   1332   1335    540   5423

Number of letters in callsigns
Letters  # worked
-----------------
   3        28
   4      2758
   5      1735
   6       887
   7         4
   8         8
   9         3

------------------ C o u n t r y   S u m m a r y ------------------
Country        160     80     40     20     15     10  Total    Pct
-------------------------------------------------------------------
3D2              0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.0
3V               0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.0
4L               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
4O               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
*4U1V            0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
4X               0      0      1      1      2      0      4    0.1
5B               0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
5H               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
5T               1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
7Q               0      0      0      0      1      1      2    0.0
8P               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
8Q               0      1      1      1      0      0      3    0.1
9A               3      1      3      5     10      2     24    0.4
9G               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
9H               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
9Y               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
A4               0      0      1      2      0      0      3    0.1
A6               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
A7               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
BY               0      0      1      2      0      0      3    0.1
C6               1      1      1      1      1      1      6    0.1
CE               0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
CM               1      2      1      0      1      0      5    0.1
CN               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
CT               0      1      3      3      3      7     17    0.3
CT3              1      1      1      1      2      2      8    0.1
CU               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
CX               0      1      1      1      2      1      6    0.1
D4               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
DL              10     21     66     69     70      4    240    4.4
E7               0      1      2      1      4      1      9    0.2
EA               6      2     15     14     18     18     73    1.3
EA6              1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
EA8              0      1      1      1      1      3      7    0.1
EA9              0      1      0      0      0      0      1    0.0
EI               1      1      2      2      2      4     12    0.2
ES               1      1      1      1      2      0      6    0.1
EU               1      1      7      2      5      0     16    0.3
EY               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
F                6      2     18      4     20     15     65    1.2
FG               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
FK               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
FM               0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
FY               1      1      1      1      1      1      6    0.1
G                5      4     25     16     25      9     84    1.5
GD               1      0      0      0      0      1      2    0.0
GI               0      1      1      1      1      0      4    0.1
GM               4      2      2      2      4      9     23    0.4
GU               0      0      2      1      1      0      4    0.1
GW               1      1      0      1      0      1      4    0.1
HA               3      2     15     12     11      1     44    0.8
HB               3      2      5      3      9      0     22    0.4
HB0              0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
HC               0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
HI               3      1      1      0      0      1      6    0.1
HK               0      1      0      1      1      0      3    0.1
HL               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
HP               0      0      0      1      1      0      2    0.0
I                1      3     29     20     32      6     91    1.7
IS               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
*IT9             0      1      1      1      2      1      6    0.1
J3               0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.0
JA               0      2    139     30     43      0    214    3.9
K              353    253    653    783    781    356   3179   58.6
KG4              0      0      1      2      1      0      4    0.1
KH6              2      1      4      1      1      1     10    0.2
KL               1      1      3      1      2      1      9    0.2
KP2              1      0      1      1      0      0      3    0.1
KP4              2      3      2      1      1      1     10    0.2
LA               2      1      8      5      3      1     20    0.4
LU               1      0      1      3      3      2     10    0.2
LX               0      0      1      1      1      0      3    0.1
LY               5      3      8     19      7      0     42    0.8
LZ               1      2      7      6      4      2     22    0.4
OA               0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
OE               0      1      1      4      1      0      7    0.1
OH               5      2      5     13     12      0     37    0.7
OH0              1      1      1      1      1      0      5    0.1
OK               4      3     22     16     17      3     65    1.2
OM               1      4      5      4      2      0     16    0.3
ON               3      1      5      2      5      4     20    0.4
OY               0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
OZ               3      1      3      1      4      0     12    0.2
P4               1      1      1      1      1      1      6    0.1
PA               3      2     16     15      9      0     45    0.8
PJ4              0      1      1      1      1      1      5    0.1
PY               1      0      1      5      7      3     17    0.3
PZ               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
S5               3      4     10      7      9      0     33    0.6
SM               5      4      8     10      8      0     35    0.6
SP               4      6     11     25     25      0     71    1.3
SV               0      0      1      1      2      0      4    0.1
SV5              0      0      1      0      1      0      2    0.0
SV9              0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
TA               0      0      0      2      0      0      2    0.0
*TA1             0      0      0      0      1      0      1    0.0
TF               1      1      1      2      0      0      5    0.1
TG               0      1      0      1      0      0      2    0.0
TI               1      1      1      1      1      1      6    0.1
UA               6     14     23     55     11      0    109    2.0
UA2              0      1      1      0      1      0      3    0.1
UA9              0      3      6      5      0      0     14    0.3
UN               0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
UR               2      6     20     24     16      0     68    1.3
V3               1      1      0      0      1      1      4    0.1
V5               0      0      0      0      0      1      1    0.0
V7               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
VE              30     15     50     65     71     61    292    5.4
VK               0      2      9      3      1      0     15    0.3
VP5              0      1      1      0      1      1      4    0.1
VP9              1      1      2      1      1      0      6    0.1
VU               0      0      1      0      0      0      1    0.0
XE               1      1      2      1      2      1      8    0.1
YA               0      0      0      1      0      0      1    0.0
YB               0      0      2      0      0      0      2    0.0
???              5      7     29     22     27      4     94    1.7
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total          505    415   1296   1332   1335    540   5423

------------ 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       213    145    325    379    343    231   1636   30.2
04       139     90    248    338    352    171   1338   24.7
14        54     47    181    153    186     74    695   12.8
15        33     40    134    144    147     15    513    9.5
03        31     33    132    134    156     13    499    9.2
25         0      2    140     29     43      0    214    3.9
16         9     21     50     82     32      0    194    3.6
20         2      4     23     15     23      2     69    1.3
08         9     10     10      7      7      5     48    0.9
09         3      4      4      5      6      4     26    0.5
33         1      3      3      2      5      5     19    0.4
11         1      0      1      6      7      3     18    0.3
13         1      1      2      4      5      3     16    0.3
07         2      3      1      3      3      2     14    0.3
01         1      1      3      2      3      2     12    0.2
31         2      1      4      2      1      1     11    0.2
30         0      1      7      2      1      0     11    0.2
17         0      1      4      4      0      0      9    0.2
06         1      1      2      1      2      1      8    0.1
32         0      1      3      2      2      0      8    0.1
21         0      0      3      4      0      0      7    0.1
10         0      0      1      2      2      2      7    0.1
02         1      1      1      1      2      1      7    0.1
35         1      1      1      2      2      0      7    0.1
40         1      1      1      2      0      0      5    0.1
22         0      1      2      1      0      0      4    0.1
12         0      0      1      1      1      1      4    0.1
29         0      1      2      1      0      0      4    0.1
38         0      0      0      1      1      2      4    0.1
19         0      1      2      1      0      0      4    0.1
36         0      0      0      1      1      1      3    0.1
37         0      0      0      0      2      1      3    0.1
24         0      0      1      1      0      0      2    0.0
18         0      0      2      0      0      0      2    0.0
28         0      0      2      0      0      0      2    0.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total    505    415   1296   1332   1335    540   5423

Multi-band QSOs
---------------
1 bands    2395
2 bands     610
3 bands     266
4 bands     144
5 bands      58
6 bands      24

The following stations were worked on 6 bands:

KC1XX       K1TTT       K4PI        VA3DF       NR3X        W1JQ        
K0RF        K5UR        K0JJR       AA7A        LZ5R        K9IMM       
W2CG        W2YK        AB3CX       N2GC        NA3M        FY5KE       
P40W        N6WM        C6AGU       TI7W        W7VJ        ZF1A        


------- S i n g l e   B a n d   Q S O s ------
Band    160     80     40     20     15     10
----------------------------------------------
QSOs    143    125    649    624    640    214


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