ARRL DX Contest, SSB - 2023
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOUAB HP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 28.5
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 33 25
80: 159 54
40: 182 69
20: 763 106
15: 943 105
10: 1162 103
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Total: 3242 462 Total Score = 4,493,412
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Considered going unassisted, but didn't want to spend the weekend listening to
people not send their calls...
All bands were open at the start, but I didn't want to mess with 40. Ended up
calling CQ on 20. Amazing where the band is open to at 00z. A71KK called in at
59+20 and said he was running 80w. Same with HZ1DS who was running 100w. Then a
ZS.
I did have one good run on 40m. I was tx on 7205 and listening on 7089. RW9USA
called in and he was 40 over S9. Amazing! That was my only real success
working split. Don't know why people don't do that anymore.
Snow static started around 0130z. By 0230z it was so bad I could not hear any
signals on any band. Went off to watch TV for a while. Came back and the
static was still bad. The only band with no snow static (160m) had some kind of
electronic noise that was S6 across the band (probably from a neighbor). Went
to bed and hoped for better in the morning.
Saturday was fun. Started on 15m at 1145z and it was off to the races. Jumped
to 10m at 1246z and it got even wilder. After several hours took a break to do
some errands, then took my wife out to dinner later that afternoon. Watched the
Formula 1 qualifying in the evening. Got back on for Eu sunrise and caught up
on the low band multipliers I missed the first night. Did more CQing on 20m and
was rewarded with a 3DA0 station calling in and asking what I needed for the
contest.
Took a short sleep and got up to catch some of the Asia and Pacific mults on 40.
The JAs were S9 on 40.
More running on Sunday morning. Really struggled to get or keep a frequency.
Bands were slow to open. I spent all day Sunday getting beat out by stations in
PA, MD, and VA. Which makes sense since the bands were great to Italy and
southern Europe all day but marginal to northern Eu.
As sunset passed to Western Eu the conditions improved. Had a great run on 10m
of stations that were solid S9 and yet were running less than 50W.
20m was finally good for running when I went there early around 1900z. That
meant I could get a frequency. Definitely helped boost the score since I was
missing some easy mults there.
Spent the last part of the contest chasing multipliers. Learned more humility.
Had some great tail end wins with HH2AA and 9V1YC.
The last hour did have a good run to JA on 15m which was a pleasant surprise.
Then jumped across all bands the last hour looking for anything I could work.
Nice to have so many PY stations available.
TM6M once again wins the award for widest signal. There were lots of other wide
splattering signals from Europe. The good propagation makes the splatter even
more noticeable. It is great for them to help keep the frequency clear, but not
so good for the rest of us. Very poor sportsmanship.
Overall a fun contest. Thanks to those around the world that chase us across
the bands.
Station:
K3 + AL-1200
K3 + AL-1500
160m: 1/4-wave GP, shunt fed tower
80m: 4 square, dipole
40m: 2-el @110′. 2/2 @ 110’/65′
20m: 5/5 @100’/50′
15m: 5/5 @66’/33′
10m: 6-el @100′, 4/4 @62’/32′
TH7DXX @40′ (south)
Rates
QSO/DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z --+-- --+-- 57/28 26/18 16/12 --+-- 99/58 99/58
0100Z 1/1 27/16 5/1 30/24 12/4 10/5 85/51 184/109
0200Z - 2/1 4/4 29/10 7/5 - 42/20 226/129 33
0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 226/129 60
0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 226/129 60
0500Z 12/8 24/11 16/13 1/1 - - 53/33 279/162 15
0600Z 3/3 19/7 - 2/1 - - 24/11 303/173 17
0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 303/173 60
0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 303/173 60
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 303/173 60
1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 303/173 60
1100Z - - 1/0 - 55/23 - 56/23 359/196 41
1200Z - - - 5/1 147/18 35/17 187/36 546/232
1300Z - - - - - 224/29 224/29 770/261
1400Z - - - - 128/6 58/10 186/16 956/277
1500Z - - - - 12/4 41/7 53/11 1009/288 26
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 2/2 27/5 29/7 1038/295 43
1700Z - - - 21/4 10/4 135/5 166/13 1204/308
1800Z - - - 122/19 10/3 15/3 147/25 1351/333
1900Z - - - - 145/5 9/6 154/11 1505/344
2000Z - - - 14/1 - - 14/1 1519/345 50
2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 1519/345 60
2200Z - - - 12/2 7/2 19/1 38/5 1557/350 42
2300Z - - 7/0 11/2 7/3 49/4 74/9 1631/359 13
0000Z --+-- 3/1 15/3 1/1 9/1 --+-- 28/6 1659/365 29
0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 1659/365 60
0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 1659/365 60
0300Z 9/7 20/7 10/8 12/4 3/1 - 54/27 1713/392 3
0400Z 2/1 17/3 4/2 2/0 - - 25/6 1738/398 22
0500Z 3/2 41/6 14/3 4/1 - - 62/12 1800/410
0600Z 2/2 1/0 29/2 32/3 - - 64/7 1864/417
0700Z - 2/1 2/1 1/0 - - 5/2 1869/419 49
0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1869/419 60
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1869/419 60
1000Z - 1/1 7/2 - - - 8/3 1877/422 46
1100Z - - 3/1 167/3 1/0 - 171/4 2048/426
1200Z - - - 42/2 95/1 6/0 143/3 2191/429
1300Z - - - - 117/2 14/2 131/4 2322/433
1400Z - - - - 66/2 26/2 92/4 2414/437
1500Z - - - 3/0 8/2 138/2 149/4 2563/441
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 2/1 115/0 117/1 2680/442
1700Z - - - - 6/0 120/1 126/1 2806/443
1800Z - - - 6/1 9/1 73/2 88/4 2894/447
1900Z - - - 132/3 8/0 1/0 141/3 3035/450
2000Z - - - 60/1 4/1 26/2 90/4 3125/454 9
2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 3125/454 60
2200Z - - 1/1 19/3 15/1 14/0 49/5 3174/459 21
2300Z 1/1 2/0 7/0 9/1 42/1 7/0 68/3 3242/462
Total: 33/25 159/54 182/69 763/106 943/105 1162/103
Best 60 mins: 234 starting at 04-Mar-2023 13:13
Worked on 6 bands: 25
8P5A 9A1A 9A1P CQ8M CU2AA E7DX ED5R ED8W EI9E IO8V IR4X J68HZ KP2M NP4Z PJ2T
PJ4G SP8R TI1K TM0R TM6M TM7A TO3Z VP5M ZF1A ZF5T
Worked on 5 bands: 43
Most worked entities:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
I 2 19 21 88 99 145 374
DL 15 9 65 101 145 335
F 5 20 11 50 46 84 216
G 6 8 48 60 85 207
PA 1 3 3 55 45 91 198
EA 1 8 8 40 36 52 145
SP 1 7 9 34 44 30 125
JA 7 18 42 52 119
UA 4 20 40 23 87
PY 2 17 22 38 79
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