2014 CQ WW SSB Contest
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOAB(A) HP QTH: W1 Operating Time (hrs): 30 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 18 7 13 80: 208 14 61 40: 178 21 70 20: 640 37 127 15: 817 37 127 10: 1437 31 129 ------------------------------ Total: 3298 147 527 Total Score = 6,446,810 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Wow, that was fun! The new saying might be, “When there’s 10 meters, there’s no other meters!”
The whole world seemed to be on 10 meters all weekend. With the high MUF the other bands really suffered except for short periods around sunrise and sunset. I had a 200+ hour Sunday morning on 29022!! And there was plenty of activity all the way up to 29100. Gotta love having some elbow room!
40m was difficult. The band was open pretty well, but there just aren’t enough operating slots between 7125 and 7200. I tried multiple times to CQ listening down with no responses.
DX contests are fun when you aren’t trying to win anything. Lots of other things in life plus two long business trips left me unmotivated to operate full time. Decided to use the Cluster and chase multipliers. Slept when I was tired.
Walked the dog both days. Had a blast.
Station is starting to show signs of age. High SWR on some antennas. RF in the cable modem. This place used to feel really loud 20 years ago when first built, but the rest of the world has increased their hardware and power so I spent a lot of time waiting in line.
Highlights:
– Four hours over 200 QSOs! One of them when I finally got to 20m on Sunday evening.
– Asia on 15m and 20m. Never worked so many China stations before – and they were loud!
– Working DXCC on the 3 high bands.
– Signals were relatively clean (with a few exceptions) and with so much room on 10 meters, I didn’t get into any frequency squabbles.
Thanks to everyone who put me in their log. Always fun to spend a weekend of ham radio DXing with 40,000 of my best friends!
Station:
K3 + Alpha 76CA FT1000D + AL-1200 160m: Shunt fed tower (my GP failed on the second transmission) 80m: 4 square 40m: 40-2CD up 33m 20m: 205CA/205CA at 30m/15m 15m: 155CA/155CA at 20m/10m 10m: 6/4/4 at 30m/20m/10m Mult: TH7DXX at 10m fixed south
By Continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 5 166 98 427 608 1237 2541 77.0
AS 0 4 8 50 84 40 186 5.6
NA 9 28 50 68 43 58 256 7.8
AF 0 5 5 22 19 18 69 2.1
SA 3 4 11 52 44 64 178 5.4
OC 1 1 6 21 18 20 67 2.0
Rates:
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z -+-- --+-- --+-- 66/58 27/24 --+-- 93/82 93/82 8 0100Z - - 44/40 39/19 18/9 - 101/68 194/150 0200Z - 40/32 13/5 6/2 - - 59/39 253/189 0300Z 3/5 61/8 22/3 - - - 86/16 339/205 0400Z 1/1 27/7 13/5 28/20 - - 69/33 408/238 0500Z 8/7 25/12 - 16/5 - - 49/24 457/262 19 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 457/262 60 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 457/262 60 0800Z -+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 457/262 60 0900Z - 10/6 5/4 - - - 15/10 472/272 50 1000Z - - 17/15 42/15 37/29 - 96/59 568/331 1100Z - 2/2 - 6/1 157/28 12/14 177/45 745/376 1200Z - - - - 1/1 147/48 148/49 893/425 1300Z - - - - 17/5 189/17 206/22 1099/447 1400Z - - - - 30/7 80/13 110/20 1209/467 1500Z - - - - 4/3 231/4 235/7 1444/474 1600Z -+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 2/2 47/6 49/8 1493/482 43 1700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1493/482 60 1800Z - - - - 92/12 36/13 128/25 1621/507 6 1900Z - - - 5/0 107/8 23/13 135/21 1756/528 2000Z - - - 14/1 7/3 9/5 30/9 1786/537 40 2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 1786/537 60 2200Z - - - - - - 0/0 1786/537 60 2300Z - - - 3/1 20/5 - 23/6 1809/543 45 0000Z -+-- --+-- 5/2 32/11 37/9 16/5 90/27 1899/570 0100Z 2/3 8/0 14/6 1/0 14/1 - 39/10 1938/580 0200Z - 11/1 15/6 22/2 - - 48/9 1986/589 0300Z 3/2 21/3 5/1 6/3 - - 35/9 2021/598 15 0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 2021/598 60 0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 2021/598 60 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 2021/598 60 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 2021/598 60 0800Z -+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2021/598 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2021/598 60 1000Z 1/2 2/2 1/1 1/1 - - 5/6 2026/604 51 1100Z - 1/2 6/3 23/8 19/2 - 49/15 2075/619 1200Z - - - 7/7 52/0 49/9 108/16 2183/635 1300Z - - - - 8/2 192/0 200/2 2383/637 1400Z - - - - 20/3 118/2 138/5 2521/642 1500Z - - - 5/0 7/1 25/1 37/2 2558/644 26 1600Z -+-- --+-- --+-- 1/1 1/2 5/1 7/4 2565/648 60 1700Z - - - - 10/0 165/3 175/3 2740/651 1800Z - - - 15/0 20/2 47/2 82/4 2822/655 1900Z - - - 34/1 86/4 12/0 132/5 2954/660 2000Z - - - 209/4 1/1 - 210/5 3164/665 2100Z - - - 44/0 23/1 25/2 92/3 3256/668 2200Z - - - 6/0 - 9/2 15/2 3271/670 40 2300Z - - 18/0 9/4 - - 27/4 3298/674 45 Total: 18/20 208/75 178/91 640/164 817/164 1437/160
Worked 9 stations on 6 bands: 8P5A DF0HQ HK1NA IB9T KH7XX P40L PJ4X TM6M V26B
Worked 39 on 5 bands and 58 on 4 bands. 160m was the missing one most of the time.
Best 60 mins was 240 QSOs at Oct 25 1503-1602z
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 1 30 7 77 88 208 411
EA 1 13 5 32 48 71 170
F 2 7 4 24 32 64 133
G 8 4 33 43 77 165
I 8 10 34 49 116 217
PA 7 2 25 24 52 110
SP 6 7 20 33 66 132
UA 7 2 14 36 82 141
VE 4 15 21 20 11 11 82
Cool things
BY 9 9 18
JA 1 5 45 7 58
CM 2 3 5 4 3 17
YV 1 4 3 5 4 17