CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2023
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 44
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 156 15 60
80: 526 24 99
40: 1148 31 120
20: 1089 38 130
15: 1099 37 133
10: 1053 34 129
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Total: 5071 179 671 Total Score = 12,473,750
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Nothing like a high solar flux to bring out the fun. Best part was that it
didn't mess up the low bands. Never expected 60 countries on 160.
Bought a used C31xr to replace the TH7 the week before the contest. Was
installed last weekend with help from KW1X and AA1ON. A great addition to the
station.
Some intermittent problem on 40m. Transmit was ok, but on receive it would drop
10-20db in signal levels at times. I had to transmit to restore receiving.
Very annoying. Seemed to get worse as I transmitted more. Probably one of my
homemade hardline connectors.
Replaced one of the encoders in my K3 during the week. It had broken during the
V4 trip. When I tried to make my first QSO of the contest I hit the key and the
power went out. Quickly tracked it down to a loose connection at the power
supply (another thing that made the trip to V4 and back). So started the
contest 2 minutes late.
Surprise band the first night was 160. It was very quiet here. Must have been
quiet in Europe as I was having no trouble calling stations and having them come
right back. Even got some answers to CQs. Second night I could still hear Eu
well, but they couldn't hear me as easily.
Meant to take a short 20 minute nap on Sat morning. Woke up wide awake an hour
later. The alarm on the iPad showed it was going, but I didn't hear any sound.
Immediately jumped on the radio and found 20 already going. That would have
been a disaster.
Conditions on Sat were ok, just one band lower than expected. And by the time
15m winds down, everyone in Eu has left 20 to go to the low bands. I pushed to
20m early on Sunday to bring the totals up.
Took another 2 hour nap the next morning. More as a proactive measure since I
didn't really feel that tired. One of the 'benefits' of old age is that I don't
seem to need sleep as much.
When I woke up Sunday morning and sat down on 40m, could not believe how loud
the JA signals were. Several were 20 over with very little flutter.
The opening to Japan/Asia on Sunday evening was the best I have ever heard from
here. The JA signals on 20 were great. Then got really good on 15. Even
worked a few on 10.
Some nasty pileups. A few people seemed to be over-aggressive in their calling.
By that I mean I kept hearing the same guys be annoying. Also noticed a lot of
times when a guy would call and then not hear the DX come back to them. And not
just once. You need to be able to recognize your own call coming back through
the noise.
Did work 4W8X on 5 bands. Amazed to hear them on 80. Even more amazed they could
hear me.
Loved watching the scoreboard. I use the mode where it shows all single ops
regardless of Assisted or not. My goal on Saturday afternoon was to catch up
with the multiplier total of K1ZZ. And to not let N5DX get more than 1000 QSOs
ahead of me. I think I only finished 975 behind.
I am going to have to learn this 2BSIQ thing. Especially with multiple bands so
open at the same time. I did manage to put together one 2BSIQ period of about
40 minutes on Sat morning that showed the potential.
Great fun. Thanks to everyone who gets on for the best weekend of DXing in the
year.
Station
K3 + AL-1200
K3 + AL-1500
160m: 1/4-wave GP, shunt fed tower
80m: 4 square
40m: 2/2 @ 110'/70'
20m: 5/5 @ 100'/50'
15m: 5/5 @ 66'/33'
10m: 6/4/4 @ 100'/65'/30'
10-20m: C31xr @ 40'
By continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 99 435 977 821 908 873 4113 81.1
AF 5 9 13 16 18 17 78 1.5
NA 47 59 93 90 56 52 397 7.8
SA 3 10 17 33 32 71 166 3.3
AS 2 8 33 104 67 25 239 4.7
OC 0 5 15 25 17 15 77 1.5
Rates
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z --+-- --+-- 119/44 12/17 7/10 2/4 140/75 140/75
0100Z - 16/16 89/12 19/24 5/5 - 129/57 269/132
0200Z - 118/34 40/6 - - - 158/40 427/172
0300Z 2/4 90/11 25/19 - - - 117/34 544/206
0400Z 51/35 13/12 12/7 - - - 76/54 620/260
0500Z 34/17 18/14 17/18 5/5 - - 74/54 694/314
0600Z 25/5 39/3 8/8 - - - 72/16 766/330
0700Z - 20/6 87/7 20/11 - - 127/24 893/354
0800Z 6/2 1/0 104/1 21/12 --+-- --+-- 132/15 1025/369
0900Z - 3/0 57/9 13/4 - - 73/13 1098/382
1000Z - - 6/0 5/2 - - 11/2 1109/384 5
1100Z - - 5/3 61/10 33/23 - 99/36 1208/420 60
1200Z - - - 8/6 187/22 3/5 198/33 1406/453
1300Z - - - - 172/11 24/24 196/35 1602/488
1400Z - - - - 108/3 101/39 209/42 1811/530
1500Z - - - - 94/8 120/15 214/23 2025/553
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 44/17 115/4 159/21 2184/574
1700Z - - - 112/18 7/8 16/12 135/38 2319/612
1800Z - - - 96/13 14/13 8/10 118/36 2437/648
1900Z - - 1/2 3/3 12/10 9/6 25/21 2462/669 20
2000Z - - 10/0 23/9 6/5 19/5 58/19 2520/688
2100Z - - 45/1 27/4 7/3 13/0 92/8 2612/696
2200Z - 8/1 6/2 46/2 1/2 8/1 69/8 2681/704
2300Z - 34/7 2/3 7/6 11/4 9/4 63/24 2744/728
0000Z --+-- 2/0 48/2 12/3 1/0 --+-- 63/5 2807/733 20
0100Z 1/1 10/1 54/1 4/2 2/1 - 71/6 2878/739
0200Z 2/1 10/3 6/2 3/1 1/0 - 22/7 2900/746 20
0300Z 10/1 23/5 30/0 - - - 63/6 2963/752
0400Z 10/4 4/0 78/1 1/1 - - 93/6 3056/758
0500Z 8/4 4/6 70/0 3/0 - - 85/10 3141/768
0600Z 4/0 69/0 25/1 - - - 98/1 3239/769
0700Z 1/0 37/1 58/0 - - - 96/1 3335/770
0800Z --+-- --+-- 8/0 1/0 --+-- --+-- 9/0 3344/770 52
0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 3344/770 60
1000Z 2/1 6/2 11/2 11/1 - - 30/6 3374/776 8
1100Z - - 1/0 104/2 26/4 - 131/6 3505/782
1200Z - - - - 125/0 49/11 174/11 3679/793
1300Z - - - 5/5 7/8 155/3 167/16 3846/809
1400Z - - - 2/0 4/4 142/3 148/7 3994/816
1500Z - - - 6/3 2/1 139/2 147/6 4141/822
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 79/0 67/3 146/3 4287/825
1700Z - - - 35/1 72/2 13/2 120/5 4407/830
1800Z - - - 144/2 7/0 4/0 155/2 4562/832
1900Z - - - 122/1 - 12/3 134/4 4696/836
2000Z - - - 72/0 18/0 8/1 98/1 4794/837
2100Z - - - 62/0 14/1 12/3 88/4 4882/841
2200Z - - 73/0 17/0 15/1 5/3 110/4 4992/845
2300Z - 1/1 53/0 7/0 18/4 - 79/5 5071/850
Total:156/75 526/123 1148/151 1089/168 1099/170 1053/163
Best 60 minutes: 254 starting 25-Nov-2023 14:27
Worked on 6 bands (53):
8P5A 9A1A C37N C6AQQ CN3A CR3A CR3W CR6K D4C DF0HQ DF6QV DK1AX DK1KC DK5TX
DL1EFW DP9A DR4A ED1R ED8M EF6T EI7M EW5A HB9CA HG3N HG7T HQ9X II2S IO3F LA8OM
LN8W M6T M6W MI5I OM7M OT7T OX7AM P33W PJ2T PJ4K SN7O TI7W TK4W TM1A TM6M TO7A
V47T VC7M VO2AC VP5M XM3A YR8D YT5A ZF1A
Most worked entities:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 18 91 163 156 192 188 808
SP 6 29 54 50 66 50 255
I 5 23 56 61 45 63 253
F 5 20 48 48 41 45 207
UA 1 13 63 40 54 24 195
G 5 19 47 39 32 52 194
OK 6 27 42 32 47 39 193
EA 2 15 45 40 30 43 175
VE 22 28 42 41 17 14 164
PA 1 13 33 30 32 39 148
HA 3 14 41 32 31 26 147
JA 13 76 41 10 140
UR 5 10 37 20 41 25 138
S5 4 12 25 27 20 25 113
SM 2 14 34 19 18 15 102
YO 2 11 30 12 29 15 99
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