2017 CQ WW CW Contest K5ZD

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD

Class: SOAB(A) HP
Operating Time (hrs): 23.8
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:   68    13       42
   80:  310    22       90
   40:  387    31      116
   20: 1044    33      122
   15:  708    27      117
   10:   13     9       10
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Total: 2530   135      497  Total Score = 4,632,560

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments

Part time fun. Business trip leaving on Sunday afternoon and my son was home for the holidays. Decided to avoid trying to do anything competitive. Was serious when I was on, but walked away when it wasn’t fun or the family wanted to do something.

Friday night was tough. Even the loud Eu on 80m couldn’t hear me. 160 was even tougher. I am concerned that my 40m beam is now acting like a dipole, the 80m 4 square has high dump power beaming Eu, and got beat out by everyone and his brother on 160m. Time for some maintenance.

Woke up late Sat morning and 20m was already packed. Tuned the radio up on 15m ad heard signals so called CQ. Started slow but then became a raging pileup. Fun!!

Sunday morning I got up earlier and found spot on 20m. Always fun when the Russians are coming in. Although a snarl of callers all on the same frequency really slows things down.

Weird to have 9 zones and 10 countries on 10m. Saw lots of spots for Caribbean stations, but I only heard band noise when I checked them out. Band was very spotlight.

Did much better than expected. Conditions were interesting and entertaining, although frustrating with lower than normal signal levels. Signal quality (with a few exceptions) was better than ever.

Always great to hear so many friends from around the world. Thanks for the QSOs.

I think I am done with truly competitive single ops. Time for the younger guys to take over.

Some numbers…

By Continents

          160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total      %

    NA      29     37     43     50     41      4     204     8.1
    SA       6     11     24     30     40      7     118     4.7
    OC       1      2      9      7      6      0      25     1.0
    EU      28    246    280    909    596      0    2059    81.4
    AF       4      9     19     25     22      2      81     3.2
    AS       0      5     11     22      3      0      41     1.6

By hour

QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band

 Hour     160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm     Off


D1-0000Z  --+--   --+--   68/46   20/26   --+--   --+--   88/72     88/72  
D1-0100Z    -     65/46   35/21    3/1      -       -    103/68    191/140 
D1-0200Z    -     36/12    5/2      -       -       -     41/14    232/154 
D1-0300Z  14/16   29/5     5/5      -       -       -     48/26    280/180 
D1-0400Z   5/4    41/4    38/8      -       -       -     84/16    364/196 
D1-0500Z   6/5    39/10   24/13     -       -       -     69/28    433/224 
D1-0600Z   3/0      -      4/2      -       -       -      7/2     440/226    55
D1-0700Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     440/226    60
D1-0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0     440/226    60
D1-0900Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     440/226    60
D1-1000Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     440/226    60
D1-1100Z   1/0     6/5    15/14   10/13     -       -     32/32    472/258    31
D1-1200Z    -       -       -     50/27  122/37     -    172/64    644/322 
D1-1300Z    -       -       -     14/6   201/14     -    215/20    859/342 
D1-1400Z    -       -       -     48/13   54/42     -    102/55    961/397 
D1-1500Z    -       -       -    144/17   15/9     3/6   162/32   1123/429  
D1-1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    1123/429    60
D1-1700Z    -       -       -     59/16    6/0     4/5    69/21   1192/450    26
D1-1800Z    -       -      1/0    26/4    12/10    1/2    40/16   1232/466 
D1-1900Z    -       -       -      6/4     9/1      -     15/5    1247/471    25
D1-2000Z    -       -       -       -      4/3     2/2     6/5    1253/476    60
D1-2100Z    -       -    125/5     9/3      -       -    134/8    1387/484 
D1-2200Z    -      3/3    15/9     3/3     2/3      -     23/18   1410/502    29
D1-2300Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1410/502    60
D2-0000Z  --+--    4/3     8/5     1/0    --+--   --+--   13/8    1423/510    31
D2-0100Z    -      7/2      -       -       -       -      7/2    1430/512    49
D2-0200Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1430/512    60
D2-0300Z  20/14    6/7     7/6      -       -       -     33/27   1463/539     6
D2-0400Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1463/539    60
D2-0500Z  10/9    40/7    10/6     1/2      -       -     61/24   1524/563     7
D2-0600Z   9/7    27/7    22/2      -       -       -     58/16   1582/579 
D2-0700Z    -      7/1     2/1      -       -       -      9/2    1591/581    52
D2-0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    1591/581    60
D2-0900Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1591/581    60
D2-1000Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1591/581    60
D2-1100Z    -       -      3/2   122/6      -       -    125/8    1716/589    
D2-1200Z    -       -       -    191/0    11/8      -    202/8    1918/597 
D2-1300Z    -       -       -     63/4   110/3     1/2   174/9    2092/606 
D2-1400Z    -       -       -     22/2   133/6     1/1   156/9    2248/615 
D2-1500Z    -       -       -    151/3    13/1      -    164/4    2412/619 
D2-1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   83/0     7/2     1/1    91/3    2503/622    14
D2-1700Z    -       -       -      6/1     5/5      -     11/6    2514/628    48
D2-1800Z    -       -       -     12/4     4/0      -     16/4    2530/632    42
D2-1900Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2530/632    60
D2-2000Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2530/632    60
D2-2100Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2530/632    60
D2-2200Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2530/632    60
D2-2300Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2530/632    60

Total:    68/55 310/112 387/147 1044/155 708/144  13/19 

Best 60 minutes: 216 a personal best from USA (sending call almost every QSO)

Worked on 6 bands:
TI7W

Worked on 5 bands:
6Y0W 6Y3M 9A1A 9A7A 9Y4/VE3EY CE3CT CN2AA CN2R CR3OO EF8R ES9C HG7T HQ9X IR4M LN8W LY4A LZ9W M6T P40C P40L PJ2T PJ4Y TK0C TO2SP V26K V47T VP5M VY2TT YT5A ZF2MJ