2004 CQ WW RTTY 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: RTTY Category: Single Operator
High Power
Band QSOs Pts State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 181 391 32 37 10
40: 295 645 40 52 19
20: 578 1512 37 75 29
15: 545 1513 23 78 24
10: 21 52 5 8 8
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Total: 1620 4113 137 250 90 Total Score = 1,961,901
(Above is claimed score.)
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′
Tower 2 – 90′ Rohn 25G
- 6-el 10 @90′ with 4/4 @ 60’/30′
- 80m 1/4-wave elevated GP with 16 radials
Tower 3 – 40′ Rohn 25G
- TH7DXX at 40′
Comments
Wow. What a fun contest!
Was just going to play around and make sure the station was ready for contest season. Had a goal of making 800 QSOs or so. Was having so much fun I couldn’t stop operating! Ended up with 20 hours, but lots of breaks.
Almost never break 100 QSOs/hour on RTTY and did it 3 hours in a row. All thanks to the extra QSOs from the second radio. RTTY contests are ideal for practicing and improving SO2R technique. You get to do all the practice of operating and switching, while the computer does the job of copying.
The RTTY ops just keep getting better and better. Only a few guys would call by sending their call 6 to 9 times. And if you are calling someone, why add “PSE” at the end???
Great to see so many of the new European calls. The future of contesting looks bright. We need more activity from the USA. Many easy multipliers were missed.
WriteLog is unbelievable. I just used the stock product and it seemed to be able to copy anything. And the SO2R support is superb.
Ratesheet
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off D1-0100Z - - 7/12 - - 7/12 7/12 D1-0200Z 38/32 - 3/2 - - 41/34 48/46 D1-0300Z 40/17 12/16 - - - 52/33 100/79 D1-0400Z 36/14 28/23 - - - 64/37 164/116 D1-0500Z 18/6 38/16 1/2 - - 57/24 221/140 1 D1-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 221/140 60 D1-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 221/140 60 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 221/140 60 D1-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 221/140 60 D1-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 221/140 60 D1-1100Z - - - - - 0/0 221/140 60 D1-1200Z - - - - - 0/0 221/140 60 D1-1300Z - - - 1/2 - 1/2 222/142 60 D1-1400Z - - 26/27 91/28 - 117/55 339/197 D1-1500Z - - 30/18 89/31 - 119/49 458/246 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- 26/10 80/13 3/4 109/27 567/273 D1-1700Z - - 25/5 63/14 - 88/19 655/292 1 D1-1800Z - - - - - 0/0 655/292 60 D1-1900Z - - 24/1 7/8 - 31/9 686/301 43 D1-2000Z - - 71/4 22/8 1/0 94/12 780/313 D1-2100Z - - 33/9 2/0 - 35/9 815/322 34 D1-2200Z - 1/1 1/0 - - 2/1 817/323 59 D1-2300Z - 18/10 8/7 - - 26/17 843/340 40 D2-0000Z --+-- 15/3 25/6 --+-- --+-- 40/9 883/349 33 D2-0100Z 14/1 20/4 25/2 - - 59/7 942/356 D2-0200Z 9/1 46/12 11/4 - - 66/17 1008/373 D2-0300Z 18/6 47/8 - - - 65/14 1073/387 D2-0400Z 1/0 14/1 1/0 - - 16/1 1089/388 42 D2-0500Z - - - - - 0/0 1089/388 60 D2-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 1089/388 60 D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 1089/388 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1089/388 60 D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 1089/388 60 D2-1000Z 7/2 17/9 1/0 - - 25/11 1114/399 36 D2-1100Z - 5/3 55/8 8/1 - 68/12 1182/411 14 D2-1200Z - - - - - 0/0 1182/411 60 D2-1300Z - - 19/0 53/3 - 72/3 1254/414 16 D2-1400Z - - 31/6 62/6 2/0 95/12 1349/426 D2-1500Z - - 62/3 37/4 - 99/7 1448/433 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 36/2 17/4 1/3 54/9 1502/442 15 D2-1700Z - - - - - 0/0 1502/442 60 D2-1800Z - - - 9/1 - 9/1 1511/443 13 D2-1900Z - - - - - 0/0 1511/443 60 D2-2000Z - - - - - 0/0 1511/443 60 D2-2100Z - - 17/3 3/2 8/10 28/15 1539/458 1 D2-2200Z - - - - 1/0 1/0 1540/458 60 D2-2300Z - 34/5 40/10 1/0 5/4 80/19 1620/477 Total: 181/79 295/111 578/141 545/125 21/21