2017 CQ WW SSB Contest K5ZD

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

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

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 22.3
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:   33     9       17
   80:  156    16       67
   40:  219    23       78
   20: 1037    33      121
   15: 1325    27      119
   10:  117    12       35
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Total: 2887   120      437  Total Score = 4,672,673

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Casual effort. After 3 weeks away from home in the last 4, didn’t have the rest or motivation to do a full effort. Operated while it was fun and walked away when it wasn’t. It was fun most of the time.

Friday night was an SWL contest listening to Eu work each other. I took my first break after just an hour!

Sat morning was cool. Amazing rates on 15 meters. I remember when having a 100 hour was a big deal. This weekend I had 3 hours over 200!!

SH5 says best 60 minutes was 266. Sent my call after every QSO.

Worked EU on 10m both days. Sure didn’t expect that.

Conditions were improving on Sunday. Finally worked some JAs in the final hour. Had a bunch of VU call in on 20m during the afternoon. That’s what I love about this game – you never know.

Have never felt so weak on the low bands. I don’t think I had a single answer to a CQ on 75m. Called lots of Eu that were more than 20 over 9 and they just CQed in my face.

The CQ WW is an amazing event. Love all the activity from around the world.
Happy to work two different KP2 and KP4 stations. Hope the contest offered a break from their reality.

Funny moment. 2330z Sunday. KC4AAA announces he doesn’t want to do any more contesting and was going to QSY to 17 meters.

Thanks to everyone that got on the air and made QSOs in the contest.

Rates:

QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band

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

0000Z   3/4     6/8    40/33    1/2    --+--   --+--   50/47     50/47      4
0100Z    -      2/4      -       -       -       -      2/4      52/51     60
0200Z    -     25/22   25/19    9/4      -       -     59/45    111/96  
0300Z    -       -      7/1      -       -       -      7/1     118/97     56
0400Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     118/97     60
0500Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     118/97     60
0600Z   3/2    25/15   41/13     -       -       -     69/30    187/127     6
0700Z   6/6    12/7    10/7      -       -       -     28/20    215/147    22
0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0     215/147    60
0900Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     215/147    60
1000Z    -      3/2     7/5     2/4      -       -     12/11    227/158    49
1100Z    -       -       -    186/41    1/2      -    187/43    414/201 
1200Z    -       -       -     25/16  183/41     -    208/57    622/258 
1300Z    -       -       -       -    263/16     -    263/16    885/274 
1400Z    -       -       -     20/9   152/6     1/2   173/17   1058/291 
1500Z    -       -       -     11/3    28/23    3/5    42/31   1100/322    20
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    1100/322    60
1700Z    -       -       -     23/10   35/10   10/9    68/29   1168/351    13
1800Z    -       -       -     23/9    19/21    9/7    51/37   1219/388 
1900Z    -       -       -    114/11   13/5     8/3   135/19   1354/407 
2000Z    -       -      9/4    18/11   22/9    22/1    71/25   1425/432     4
2100Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1425/432    60
2200Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1425/432    60
2300Z    -      3/3    11/6    20/10     -       -     34/19   1459/451    22
0000Z  --+--   12/2    --+--    1/1    --+--   --+--   13/3    1472/454    45
0100Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1472/454    60
0200Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1472/454    60
0300Z   5/6    32/13    6/2      -       -       -     43/21   1515/475    19
0400Z  10/6    29/5    32/4      -       -       -     71/15   1586/490 
0500Z   4/2      -      8/2      -       -       -     12/4    1598/494    38
0600Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1598/494    60
0700Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1598/494    60
0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    1598/494    60
0900Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1598/494    60
1000Z   1/0      -      3/0     4/0      -       -      8/0    1606/494    41
1100Z    -       -      1/2   171/3     4/1      -    176/6    1782/500 
1200Z    -       -       -      5/3   234/6      -    239/9    2021/509 
1300Z    -       -       -     18/0   129/1      -    147/1    2168/510 
1400Z    -       -       -       -     43/0      -     43/0    2211/510    22
1500Z    -       -       -      7/1     6/0     3/1    16/2    2227/512    60
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--    3/2   151/1     7/2   161/5    2388/517 
1700Z    -       -       -    145/3     4/2      -    149/5    2537/522 
1800Z    -       -       -    124/5     5/0    12/8   141/13   2678/535 
1900Z    -       -       -     64/0    21/2    26/5   111/7    2789/542 
2000Z    -       -      2/1    10/1      -     12/2    24/4    2813/546    16
2100Z    -       -      7/1      -     12/0     4/2    23/3    2836/549    60
2200Z    -       -      2/0    10/3      -       -     12/3    2848/552 
2300Z   1/0     7/2     8/1    23/2      -       -     39/5    2887/557 

Total: 33/26  156/83 219/101 1037/154 1325/146 117/47 

Most worked countries:

          160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total
    DL              8     16    149    188            361
    EA       1      7      6     49     75      1     139
     F       1     11      5     45     66            128
     G       2      4      4     76    126            212
     I              4     17     80     89            190
    PA              6      3     58     51            118
    UA              1      4     47     80            132
    UR              1      2     21     66             90

Worked on 6 bands:
8P5A CU4DX EF8R HG7T PJ4G PJ4K PZ5K V26B ZF9CW