2003 CQ WW CW Contest K5ZD
K5ZD, Single Op All Band, High Power
By Randall A. Thompson, K5ZD
k5zd@contesting.com
Summary Sheet
CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 2003
Call: K5ZD Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Single Operator
High Power
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
160 22 54 2.45 8 18
80 289 820 2.84 16 70
40 726 2100 2.89 30 93
20 753 2182 2.90 34 109
15 756 2217 2.93 29 101
10 628 1847 2.94 29 96
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Totals 3174 9220 2.90 146 487 => 5,836,160
(Above is before log checking.)
Station Description
- Radio 1 – Yeasu FT-1000D + Alpha 76CA
- Radio 2 – Yeasu FT-1000D + Ameritron AL-1200
Tower 1 – 100′ Rohn 45G
- 40-2CD @ 110′
- 205CA @ 100′ / 50′
- 5-el 15 @70′ / 35′
- 80m Inv Vee with top at 95′
- 160m 1/4-wave GP with 4 elevated radials
Tower 2 – 90′ Rohn 25G
- 6-el 10 @90′ with 4/4 @ 60’/30′
- 40m 1/2-wave sloper to west
- 80m wire 4 square hanging from tower with 16 radials per vertical
- 160m shunt feed tower with 32 radials
Tower 3 – 40′ Rohn 25G
- TH7DXX at 40′
Comments…
A truly fun weekend!
With a heavy work travel schedule and trying to take two MBA classes, I let my wife talk me into not doing the contest seriously. Operated the first 3 hours and then went to bed. Woke up early, did some DXing on the low bands and then CQed for awhile. Took the dog for a walk and ran some errands. Worked more guys. Then went off to meet a classmate to work on a school project. Came back and had dinner. Now almost 23 hours into the contest and I had already taken 12 hours off.
Decided to see how the bands were. Still good! Decided I would stay up late and see what I had missed by sleeping the first night. Set goal of working 300 countries. Finally made myself quit at 3AM and went to bed. By now, the contest bug is starting to bite. Woke up 3 hours later and decided to crank up the QSO machine and see what I could do to get the QSO totals respectable on all bands. At the 24 hour mark of operating time I had 4Meg. Almost quit then, but still having too much fun.
Still 8 hours of the contest to go. Can’t stop because YCCC president N1XS has exhorted everyone to keep their butt in the chair. Got this crazy idea that maybe I could sneak into the Top Ten box. Kept CQing and doing the SO2R thing. Score kept going up. Ended with an exhilarating run on 7000.6.
Almost wish I had done the whole thing, but probably wouldn’t have had as much fun. Winning CQ WW is hard. You have to keep pushing all the time and make sure you get good frequencies on the hot band. There is no time to rest or relax. By sleeping the first night, I had no pressure and was able to go DXing when I got tired of CQing. It actually helped me be more on the right band than if I had been trying. Not to mention how much more fun (and accurate) it is to operate with enough sleep.
Only ran into a few packet pileups. Most of the time I would just keep tuning. Did work TO4WW on 40. Had no idea where it was other than zone 39. Turns out to be an ALL TIME new one for me! (He was listening up 1-2 KHz and it was exactly the right thing to do. Who says you can’t work split in a contest?)
7S2E was still loud on 40m at 1130Z. Wow. On Sunday morning, 40m was the best I have ever heard over the pole to Japan. 40 was wall to wall all the way up to 7100. My best runs Sat night were on 7085 and 7076.
Managed to work 2 JA stations on 80 Saturday morning.
160 was funny. Heard lots of stuff Friday night but it couldn’t hear me. Saturday managed to work a few Eu, but it wasn’t worth it. Didn’t matter because 80 and 40 were so good.
Overall operating was excellent. No real frequency fights. Less than the usual number of dupes. Most people got my call right. Didn’t seem like I got spotted as KH7D this year.
As always, amazing how many stations made big QSO totals that I never even heard. Was really searching for N5TJ at KP3Z and only worked him on 1 band! He had over 6000 QSOs! Worked VP9I, A45XR, and JY8YB on only one band. ZD8Z on 2 bands. Heard A61AJ on 160, but only worked him on 2 bands. That’s part of what makes this contest great. But also why packet is such an advantage of the multi-ops. It is just too easy for the good stuff to get lost in the noise.
Breakdown below. I assume rates were better than normal on day 2 because I hadn’t worked everyone on day 1.
Continent Statistics
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 8 230 601 572 613 536 2560 80.7
NA 10 39 57 54 43 29 232 7.3
AF 1 7 14 23 18 11 74 2.3
AS 0 4 31 69 50 13 167 5.3
SA 3 8 12 25 28 32 108 3.4
OC 0 1 9 9 4 7 30 0.9
Rate Sheet
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime 0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 71/58 11/6 --+-- 82/64 82/64 0100Z - - 85/56 24/12 2/2 - 111/70 193/134 0200Z 3/6 50/36 4/1 16/14 - - 73/57 266/191 0300Z 1/2 50/10 11/7 4/4 - - 66/23 332/214 10 0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 332/214 60 0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 332/214 60 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 332/214 60 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 332/214 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 332/214 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 332/214 60 1000Z 1/1 13/11 14/13 - - - 28/25 360/239 22 1100Z 3/5 3/3 10/5 28/5 58/23 - 102/41 462/280 1200Z - - - 9/5 164/20 4/6 177/31 639/311 1300Z - - - - 21/5 127/38 148/43 787/354 1400Z - - - - 79/9 51/7 130/16 917/370 5 1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 917/370 60 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 917/370 60 1700Z - - - 63/9 5/2 32/24 100/35 1017/405 6 1800Z - - - 91/4 39/23 1/2 131/29 1148/434 1900Z - - - - - 6/5 6/5 1154/439 55 2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1154/439 60 2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 1154/439 60 2200Z - - - - 1/2 9/8 10/10 1164/449 47 2300Z - - 35/8 20/3 13/4 4/0 72/15 1236/464 0000Z --+-- --+-- 81/18 7/5 --+-- --+-- 88/23 1324/487 0100Z 7/7 33/4 20/0 2/0 - - 62/11 1386/498 0200Z - 35/6 28/4 - - - 63/10 1449/508 0300Z 6/4 43/6 6/0 1/1 - - 56/11 1505/519 0400Z - 17/3 67/4 4/2 - - 88/9 1593/528 0500Z - 22/4 91/3 - - - 113/7 1706/535 0600Z - 10/2 62/0 2/1 - - 74/3 1780/538 0700Z - 6/1 81/2 3/1 - - 90/4 1870/542 0800Z 1/1 5/0 8/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 14/1 1884/543 43 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1884/543 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1884/543 60 1100Z - 2/0 9/2 2/0 - - 13/2 1897/545 38 1200Z - - - 101/9 30/8 - 131/17 2028/562 1300Z - - - - 16/1 140/9 156/10 2184/572 1400Z - - - - 14/2 132/5 146/7 2330/579 1500Z - - - - 67/3 78/3 145/6 2475/585 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 130/2 8/3 138/5 2613/590 1700Z - - - 48/0 56/2 8/1 112/3 2725/593 1800Z - - - 109/2 18/7 1/0 128/9 2853/602 1900Z - - - 52/3 6/0 15/4 73/7 2926/609 10 2000Z - - - 26/0 8/7 5/4 39/11 2965/620 20 2100Z - - 11/0 36/3 4/0 3/2 54/5 3019/625 2200Z - - 35/0 10/1 14/2 4/4 63/7 3082/632 2300Z - - 68/0 24/1 - - 92/1 3174/633 Total: 22/26 289/86 726/123 753/143 756/130 628/125 Unique callsigns worked = 2174 The best 60 minute rate was 180/hour from 1203 to 1302 The best 30 minute rate was 192/hour from 1256 to 1325 The best 10 minute rate was 222/hour from 1316 to 1325 The best 1 minute rates were: 5 QSOs/minute 8 times. 4 QSOs/minute 100 times. 3 QSOs/minute 350 times. 2 QSOs/minute 543 times. 1 QSOs/minute 598 times. There were 553 band changes and 260 probable 2nd radio QSOs. Multi-band QSOs ---------------- 1 bands 1591 2 bands 331 3 bands 132 4 bands 81 5 bands 33 6 bands 6 The following stations were worked on 6 bands: 9A1A HC8N P40E PJ2T VP5X VE3EJ ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 QSOs 10 129 379 381 391 301
Breakdown by Zone
Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 14 5 81 222 271 259 274 1112 34.7 15 3 107 250 219 240 211 1030 32.1 16 0 34 105 59 90 30 318 9.9 20 0 10 31 24 27 20 112 3.5 4 4 13 25 15 11 8 76 2.4 8 4 12 13 16 15 10 70 2.2 17 0 0 9 28 23 2 62 1.9 25 0 2 7 16 15 9 49 1.5 5 2 10 10 15 4 3 44 1.4 33 1 5 9 12 11 5 43 1.3 9 2 5 5 8 10 7 37 1.2 13 0 0 0 9 10 15 34 1.1 11 0 2 6 7 7 7 29 0.9 3 0 2 5 2 6 2 17 0.5 35 0 2 2 6 3 2 15 0.5 7 0 2 1 2 4 3 12 0.4 18 0 0 4 7 0 0 11 0.3 30 0 0 4 4 0 1 9 0.3 38 0 0 2 4 1 2 9 0.3 32 0 0 2 2 2 3 9 0.3 31 0 1 2 2 2 2 9 0.3 10 1 1 1 2 1 2 8 0.2 40 0 0 1 3 2 2 8 0.2 21 0 0 2 1 5 0 8 0.2 6 0 0 2 3 1 2 8 0.2 19 0 0 0 3 2 1 6 0.2 36 0 0 0 2 1 1 4 0.1 28 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.1 24 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0.1 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1 26 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 27 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1 37 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1 34 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.1 29 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 39 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 23 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 12 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 22 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 22 289 726 753 756 628 3174
Breakdown by Country
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
3V 1 2 1 2 6
4J 1 1
4L 1 1
4U1I 1 1
4X 1 1 2 4
5B 2 3 3 2 1 11
5N 1 1
5U 1 1 1 1 1 5
5W 1 1
5X 1 1 2
6Y 1 2 1 1 1 1 7
7X 1 1
8P 1 1 1 1 1 5
9A 1 5 5 6 10 7 34
9G 1 1
9H 1 2 3
9K 1 1
9M2 3 3
9Y 1 2 1 1 1 6
A4 1 1
A6 1 1 2
CE 1 1
CE9 1 1
CM 2 3 1 1 1 8
CN 1 1 2
CT 2 5 3 4 14
CT3 1 3 4 3 2 13
CU 1 1
CX 1 4 2 7
D4 1 1 1 1 4
DL 1 24 92 94 103 86 400
DU 1 1
EA 4 8 26 14 15 67
EA6 1 2 1 4
EA8 1 2 4 6 5 3 21
EI 1 1 2 4
EK 1 1
EL 1 1 2
ER 1 1 2
ES 1 1 3 3 6 14
EU 3 6 2 7 4 22
EX 2 2
EY 1 1
F 8 25 34 27 29 123
FJ 1 1
FM 1 1 2
FY 1 1 2
G 13 28 32 36 44 153
GD 1 1
GI 1 1 2
GJ 1 1 1 1 4
GM 1 4 3 5 6 6 25
GM/s 1 1 1 1 4
GU 1 1 2 1 1 6
GW 3 5 7 3 5 23
HA 7 19 16 18 21 81
HB 1 7 9 6 4 27
HC8 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
HI 1 1 1 1 4
HK 1 1 1 3
HP 1 1
HS 2 2
HZ 1 1
I 7 18 21 18 19 83
IS 1 2 1 4
IT9 2 1 2 2 7
J3 1 2 1 4
J8 1 1 1 1 4
JA 2 7 16 15 9 49
JT 1 1
JY 1 1
K 1 4 10 10 4 4 33
KH2 1 1
KH6 1 2 1 1 5
KL 1 1 1 3
KP2 1 1 1 2 5
KP4 1 3 1 1 6
LA 1 3 5 5 4 11 29
LU 5 6 13 24
LX 1 2 1 2 1 7
LY 7 9 11 7 6 40
LZ 4 12 11 11 11 49
OA 1 1
OE 3 2 7 4 7 23
OH 4 19 27 20 13 83
OH0 1 1 1 1 1 5
OK 20 59 47 60 54 240
OM 11 16 13 18 12 70
ON 3 5 11 8 10 37
OY 1 1
OZ 5 5 6 5 13 34
P4 1 1 2 2 3 1 10
PA 3 11 15 18 16 63
PJ2 1 2 1 2 2 2 10
PJ7 1 1 2
PY 2 5 7 7 7 28
PY0F 1 1
S5 1 10 17 9 16 11 64
S9 1 1 2
SM 6 18 17 19 23 83
SP 1 16 42 26 33 27 145
SU 1 1 2
SV 2 1 5 4 12
SV5 1 1
SV9 1 1
T32 1 1 1 1 4
T7 1 1
T9 7 3 2 2 14
TA 3 1 1 5
TF 1 3 2 2 8
TG 1 1 2
TI 1 1 1 1 1 5
TK 1 1 1 1 4
TU 1 1 2
UA 14 52 44 44 17 171
UA2 1 1 1 2 1 6
UA9 8 33 15 3 59
UK 1 1 2
UN 5 3 7 15
UR 16 47 13 39 8 123
V2 1 1 2 1 5
V3 1 1
V4 1 1 1 1 1 5
V5 1 1
VE 5 21 30 23 18 9 106
VK 5 4 1 10
VP5 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
VP8 1 1
VP8/h 1 1
VP9 1 1
VR 1 2 3
VU 1 1
XE 2 3 1 2 8
YL 4 3 5 2 3 17
YN 1 1 1 3
YO 4 8 7 6 3 28
YU 6 21 19 18 12 76
YV 1 1 3 1 6
Z3 1 2 5 2 10
ZA 1 2 1 1 1 6
ZD8 1 1 2
ZF 1 1 1 1 1 5
ZL 2 2 2 2 8
ZS 2 2 1 2 7