2004 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 -- 2004
Call: K5ZD Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Single Operator
High Power
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES
160 62 141 2.27 13 34
80 418 1157 2.77 21 83
40 615 1680 2.73 29 106
20 1174 3313 2.82 37 124
15 803 2330 2.90 31 108
10 131 334 2.55 23 68
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Totals 3203 8955 2.80 154 523 => 6,062,535
(Above is after 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
This contest suffered from two unusual failures: operator and antennas.
I wanted to do the contest. I prepared for the contest. But, when it started, I just didn’t seem to have the necessary motivation. Decided to sleep 90 minutes the first night in an effort to reduce the pain of the poor conditions. Have never slept during the first night a serious effort before.
Discovered the first antenna problem when I tried to turn the side mounted 15m beam to Europe Sat morning. It would get stuck at due North. Decided to push on using just the antenna fixed on Europe at 30′ and would try to determine the problem later in the day.
Nothing fixes motivation like some high rates. Managed a best 60 minutes of 195 QSOs on Sat morning. Maybe I should just use the low antenna all the time!
Ran out to the tower later and found one leg of the 80m inverted Vee had fallen into the 15m beam. Pulled it back out and was fully rotatable again.
Second antenna problem occurred around 02Z. Turned the 40/20m beam due south to work CP6CW on 40m. Then couldn’t get the Tailtwister to rotate back again. We had a full moon and good weather, but didn’t want to take a chance climbing the tower. Kept trying to play with it but no wind, so it wasn’t moving. This leaves my only 40m antenna fixed south.
Told my wife that this effectively ended the contest for me. Decided to play DXer on the low bands and try to make what score I could. 80m was great Sat night at Eu sunrise. Gave up the normal 40m opening (maybe 100 QSOs) and went to bed.
Sunday morning, got up and decided to do what I could with the fixed 20m beam to Europe at 50′. Conditions on 20m were great. Band was wide open across Europe and into zone 16. Worked lots of UA3 stations with great signals. Again, maybe I need to do all my 20m running with the low antenna only!
15m and 10m never did much on Sunday. 20m was always more productive.
Was windy on Sunday and I could play with the rotator where I could see it through the shack window. Finally got it off the stop and rotary again. Kept me in the contest and was worth a lot of multipliers in the last several hours.
Definitely a contest for SO2R (and to be in W1). No 10m, yet managed to work lots of countries. One advantage of calling CQ on 20m all day is that lots of strange and interesting things call in. Thus the big mult. Never heard zone 23 or 24 on any band.
Learned that sleep makes DX contests more fun. Also that sleep sure helps your mental ability to handle high rates. As conditions go down, we are going to find the activity is super concentrated into specific openings. May be worth sleeping more to maximize rate production.
Another lesson is that motivation is often a matter of managing expectations. When conditions were bad the first night, it was hard to imagine continuing all weekend. Best not to try competing with past rate sheets and just deal with what is happening now.
Lots of great operators out there. Just wish they would sign their calls more often. Not all of us are using packet.
Continent Statistics
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
SA 4 10 23 37 36 32 142 4.4
NA 32 57 82 88 60 42 361 11.2
EU 26 339 482 930 639 37 2453 76.1
AS 0 4 16 75 40 0 135 4.2
AF 1 9 14 30 21 14 89 2.8
OC 0 3 5 21 8 5 42 1.3
Rate Sheet
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band - K5ZD CQ WW CW 2004 Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z --+-- --+-- 56/51 25/33 --+-- --+-- 81/84 81/84 0100Z - 31/21 44/14 7/3 - - 82/38 163/122 0200Z - 9/7 62/19 - - - 71/26 234/148 0300Z 9/13 48/20 13/3 - - - 70/36 304/184 0400Z 11/6 59/15 - - - - 70/21 374/205 0500Z 10/7 53/3 - - - - 63/10 437/215 0600Z 9/7 26/8 10/6 1/1 - - 46/22 483/237 0700Z - 30/11 13/2 - - - 43/13 526/250 0800Z 2/1 7/5 35/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 44/9 570/259 0900Z - 5/1 8/6 4/5 - - 17/12 587/271 25 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 587/271 60 1100Z 4/0 1/2 8/3 66/37 5/7 - 84/49 671/320 9 1200Z - - - 73/8 86/41 - 159/49 830/369 1300Z - - - - 180/13 9/14 189/27 1019/396 1400Z - - - - 145/6 25/25 170/31 1189/427 1500Z - - - - 105/3 21/15 126/18 1315/445 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 40/17 18/11 58/28 1373/473<-ant work 1700Z - - - 86/4 16/9 15/5 117/18 1490/491 1800Z - - - 59/6 20/10 2/2 81/18 1571/509 1900Z - - - 42/13 8/3 8/3 58/19 1629/528 2000Z - - 2/0 36/6 15/5 3/4 56/15 1685/543 2100Z - - 81/5 - - 8/4 89/9 1774/552 2200Z - - 96/6 - 16/6 - 112/12 1886/564 2300Z - - 55/4 8/2 2/0 - 65/6 1951/570 0000Z --+-- 1/0 23/0 2/2 --+-- --+-- 26/2 1977/572 36 0100Z 3/2 19/3 10/2 - - - 32/7 2009/579 0200Z 1/1 - 14/6 - - - 15/7 2024/586<-rotator 25 0300Z - - 2/2 - - - 2/2 2026/588 60 0400Z 1/2 37/5 - - - - 38/7 2064/595 0500Z 6/5 24/3 - - - - 30/8 2094/603 0600Z 5/3 72/0 - - - - 77/3 2171/606 2 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 2171/606 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2171/606 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2171/606 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 2171/606 60 1100Z 2/0 - 1/0 51/6 2/2 - 56/8 2227/614 16 1200Z - - - 110/1 16/4 - 126/5 2353/619 1300Z - - - 96/0 24/1 - 120/1 2473/620 1400Z - - - 112/2 12/2 - 124/4 2597/624 1500Z - - - 34/2 55/0 5/3 94/5 2691/629 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 136/7 4/0 1/0 141/7 2832/636 1700Z - - - 125/4 6/2 - 131/6 2963/642 1800Z - - - 31/5 4/2 7/3 42/10 3005/652 1900Z - - - 21/1 12/1 9/2 42/4 3047/656 2000Z - - - 21/6 10/3 - 31/9 3078/665 2100Z - - 27/1 5/2 2/0 - 34/3 3112/668 2200Z - - 17/0 30/4 - - 47/4 3159/672 2300Z - - 45/4 1/1 19/2 - 65/7 3224/679 Total: 63/47 422/104 622/137 1182/161 804/139 131/91 Unique callsigns worked = 2243 The best 60 minute rate was 195/hour from 1233 to 1332 The best 30 minute rate was 212/hour from 1256 to 1325 The best 10 minute rate was 234/hour from 1256 to 1305 The best 1 minute rates were: 5 QSOs/minute 5 times. 4 QSOs/minute 91 times. 3 QSOs/minute 274 times. 2 QSOs/minute 571 times. 1 QSOs/minute 871 times. There were 616 band changes and 268 probable 2nd radio QSOs. Multi-band QSOs ---------------- 1 bands 1651 2 bands 360 3 bands 132 4 bands 58 5 bands 27 6 bands 15 The following stations were worked on 6 bands: J7OJ WP2Z VP2MZM LZ9W RU1A PJ2T VP9I HC8N VE3YAA DF0HQ V31RM S52ZW VE3DZ 8P5A VE3JM ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 25 198 287 699 401 41
Breakdown by Zone
Zone 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 14 10 130 200 439 281 16 1076 32.9 15 11 174 225 315 268 17 1010 30.9 16 3 27 39 140 63 3 275 8.4 4 11 19 30 35 15 14 124 3.8 20 2 9 18 34 31 1 95 2.9 8 7 16 21 17 17 16 94 2.9 5 10 13 23 19 9 5 79 2.4 25 0 1 6 19 30 0 56 1.7 9 3 7 10 11 9 8 48 1.5 33 1 6 8 17 11 5 48 1.5 13 0 2 4 12 12 15 45 1.4 17 0 1 2 38 2 0 43 1.3 11 0 0 6 9 12 5 32 1.0 3 2 6 2 5 7 3 25 0.8 7 1 1 4 7 5 4 22 0.7 35 0 3 4 4 5 3 19 0.6 32 0 2 2 7 3 4 18 0.6 40 0 1 3 7 2 0 13 0.4 10 1 1 2 2 3 3 12 0.4 38 0 0 2 4 2 2 10 0.3 30 0 0 1 7 1 0 9 0.3 6 0 1 1 1 4 1 8 0.2 31 0 1 1 2 2 1 7 0.2 21 0 0 2 3 1 0 6 0.2 2 1 1 1 2 1 0 6 0.2 39 0 0 0 3 1 1 5 0.2 18 0 0 1 4 0 0 5 0.2 36 0 0 0 2 1 2 5 0.2 26 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 0.1 22 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 0.1 28 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 0.1 12 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 0.1 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.1 27 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 0.1 29 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 19 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 37 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1 34 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 63 422 622 1182 804 131 3224
Breakdown by Country
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
3D2 1 1 1 1 1 5
3V 1 2 1 1 5
4L 1 1
4U1I 1 1
4U1U 1 1 2
4U1V 1 1 2
4X 1 1 1 2 5
5B 1 1 1 1 4
5H 1 1 2
5R 1 1
5U 1 1 1 1 1 5
6W 1 1 1 1 1 5
6Y 1 1
7X 1 1
8P 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
8Q 1 1 2
8R 1 1
9A 6 5 10 13 3 37
9G 1 1
9M2 1 1
9M6 1 1
9Y 1 1 1 1 1 5
A4 1 1 2
A6 1 1 2
C3 1 1
C5 1 1 2
C6 1 1 2 1 5
CE 2 1 3
CE9 1 2 1 4
CM 1 1 3 1 6
CN 1 1 2
CP 1 1 1 1 4
CT 2 1 5 4 2 14
CT3 2 3 4 3 2 14
CU 2 2
CX 1 3 2 2 8
D4 1 1 1 1 1 5
DL 3 53 69 145 91 1 362
DU 1 1
EA 7 27 43 25 6 108
EA6 1 1 2 1 1 6
EA8 1 2 3 10 6 2 24
EA9 1 1
EI 1 2 4 3 5 15
ER 1 1 2
ES 2 2 1 3 8
EU 1 3 1 7 4 16
EY 1 1
F 2 20 18 47 39 2 128
FM 1 1 1 1 2 6
FR 1 1 1 3
G 12 22 65 38 137
GD 1 1 2
GI 1 2 3
GJ 1 1 1 1 2 6
GM 5 6 7 8 1 27
GU 1 3 1 5
GW 2 2 5 3 1 13
HA 5 17 26 24 16 2 90
HB 3 9 20 8 40
HC 1 1
HC8 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
HI 1 2 1 1 1 6
HK 2 2
HP 1 1
HR 1 1
HS 3 3
I 13 34 42 36 3 128
IG9 1 1
IS 1 1 4 6
IT9 1 1 2
J7 1 2 2 2 2 2 11
JA 1 6 19 30 56
JW 2 2
K 4 8 16 23 5 7 63
KH2 2 2
KH6 1 1 2 2 1 7
KL 2 1 3
KP2 2 1 1 1 1 1 7
KP4 2 4 2 3 2 13
LA 1 5 11 7 1 25
LU 2 1 6 8 11 28
LX 1 2 3 2 8
LY 6 4 18 6 34
LZ 1 3 6 11 10 1 32
OA 1 1
OD 1 1 2
OE 5 5 7 6 23
OH 10 6 36 21 1 74
OH0 2 1 1 1 5
OK 1 45 42 60 56 1 205
OM 1 10 14 12 12 1 50
ON 1 7 8 16 6 38
OX 1 1 2
OY 2 1 3
OZ 1 4 3 11 7 26
P4 1 3 5 4 5 4 22
PA 3 4 19 15 41
PJ2 1 1 1 2 2 1 8
PJ7 1 1
PY 6 9 12 5 32
S5 1 14 22 25 28 2 92
S9 2 1 2 5
SM 1 5 9 31 18 1 65
SP 1 23 29 41 38 132
SU 1 1 2
SV 3 6 2 11
SV9 1 1
T9 1 9 2 3 15
TA 1 1
TF 1 3 4 1 9
TI 2 2 2 1 7
TK 1 1 2
TU 1 1
UA 2 13 18 91 30 2 156
UA2 1 1 1 4 7
UA9 1 3 38 2 44
UN 1 4 5
UR 11 19 41 29 1 101
V2 1 1 1 1 1 5
V3 1 1 2 1 2 1 8
V4 1 1 1 1 4
V5 1 2 1 1 5
VE 18 29 39 37 26 14 163
VK 1 8 1 10
VK0M 1 1
VK9N 1 1
VP2E 1 1 1 1 4
VP2M 1 1 1 2 1 2 8
VP2V 1 1
VP5 1 1 1 1 1 5
VP8 1 1 1 1 4
VP8/h 1 1 1 3
VP9 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
VU 1 1 2
XE 1 1 1 4 1 8
XU 1 1
YB 1 1 2
YI 1 1
YL 4 1 7 6 18
YN 1 1 1 3
YO 1 3 6 12 14 36
YU 1 13 18 21 16 3 72
YV 1 2 3 2 2 10
Z3 1 2 4 1 8
ZA 1 1
ZC4 1 1 2
ZF 1 1 1 1 1 5
ZK1/s 1 1 2
ZL 1 5 2 2 10
ZS 2 1 1 4