2001 ARRL Sweepstakes CW K5ZD
ARRL Sweepstakes, CW
Call: K5ZD
Class: SO HP
QTH: WMA
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 74
40: 453
20: 355
15: 364
10: 82
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Total: 1328 x 80 = 212,480
Comments
Great start, but just ran out of new people to talk to. Wish I had noticed that there was going to be a World Series game 7 on Sunday night so I could have saved more off time. The bands were empty once the game started!
We have to thank the QRP guys for saving SS CW. They make the contest go.
When you see how great some of the QRP signals are, maybe we should just eliminate the high power category?!
Overall operating quality was excellent. Most guys seemed to know what PR? or PREC? meant. No real frequency fights and with so many bands open, it was always easy to find a place to CQ.
Surprising to see 40m completely dead by 10AM Sunday. Normally it rocks all day. But 20m sounded like 40 with loud stations from only 200 miles away.
This was my 25th consecutive SS CW with more than 1000 QSOs. Still my favorite contest!
Rates
QSO/Sec by hour and band Hour 80 40 20 15 10 Total Cumm OffTime D1-2100Z - - - 86/34 18/6 104/40 104/40 D1-2200Z - - - 65/9 20/1 85/10 189/50 D1-2300Z - - - 56/3 19/4 75/7 264/57 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 47/4 22/3 1/1 70/8 334/65 D2-0100Z - 3/0 51/2 20/2 - 74/4 408/69 D2-0200Z - 50/3 22/1 - - 72/4 480/73 D2-0300Z - 59/2 15/2 - - 74/4 554/77 D2-0400Z 7/0 57/1 4/0 - - 68/1 622/78 D2-0500Z 14/0 55/0 - - - 69/0 691/78 D2-0600Z 12/0 46/0 - - - 58/0 749/78 D2-0700Z 9/0 48/0 - - - 57/0 806/78 D2-0800Z 7/0 13/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 20/0 826/78 25 D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 826/78 60 D2-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 826/78 60 D2-1100Z - - - - - 0/0 826/78 60 D2-1200Z 9/0 22/0 3/0 - - 34/0 860/78 21 D2-1300Z - 32/0 20/0 - - 52/0 912/78 D2-1400Z - 13/1 25/0 - - 38/1 950/79 D2-1500Z - 12/0 26/0 - - 38/0 988/79 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 34/0 7/0 --+-- 41/0 1029/79 D2-1700Z - - 11/0 28/1 - 39/1 1068/80 D2-1800Z - - 7/0 9/0 - 16/0 1084/80 39 D2-1900Z - - 16/0 4/0 14/0 34/0 1118/80 2 D2-2000Z - - 20/0 11/0 4/0 35/0 1153/80 D2-2100Z - - 1/0 14/0 4/0 19/0 1172/80 35 D2-2200Z - 19/0 - 26/0 2/0 47/0 1219/80 D2-2300Z - 6/0 15/0 14/0 - 35/0 1254/80 D3-0000Z 1/0 3/0 12/0 --+-- --+-- 16/0 1270/80 31 D3-0100Z 5/0 9/0 3/0 2/0 - 19/0 1289/80 31 D3-0200Z 10/0 6/0 23/0 - - 39/0 1328/80 Total: 74/0 453/7 355/9 364/52 82/12