2005 CQ WW CW Contest K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 45.5
Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 112 17 56 80: 792 22 92 40: 821 30 108 20: 1458 36 125 15: 548 25 104 10: 40 12 23 ------------------------------ Total: 3771 142 508 Total Score = 7,063,550 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Wow. When the contest started I thought 5 million would be a big score, but conditions (and activity) were amazing. Glad I have this contest recorded because there are parts of it I will want to listen to so I can make sure I wasn’t hallucinating!
As always, the contest is so big there are stations that I just can’t find. Never heard a KL7 until last 30 mins of the contest, then worked two of them. Only heard 9Y4AA the 3 times when I worked him on 20,15, and 10. Never anywhere else. When I work all the other Carribbean guys on 4 or 5 bands, weird that one like that gets away. Missed V31TM on 10 and 15. How does that happen?! Never heard UA9AYA on 40m, then see he made a huge score there. Worked 8Q7DV on 80 and 20, but never heard them anywhere else. That is what makes this contest so cool – and why the scores keep getting bigger.
The audio recording will be on-line within the next week or so. There are some excellent low band runs with once in a lifetime clear frequency, low low noise, and high rate. Also lots of SO2R examples where I was messing up 2 QSOs at the same time.
For the packet guys, stations that identify with “TU” may be OK. But for a single op, I would have to wait until they decided to send their call. In some cases this took some badgering. Packet enables these guys to run and run without having to identify because there is always a string of callers. Frustrating at times. Otherwise, I thought the overall calliber of operating was pretty good.
Slept 45 mins the first night because my back was killing me. Felt much better after that. Slept 90 minutes the second night – not because I was sleepy then but because I wanted to be fully alert when the high band rates were happening.
My motivation to get through this contest was that it would be my last full out 48 hour single op effort. Although I will probably forget that pledge when next November rolls around…
The numbers:
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
D1-0000Z 1/2 --+-- 75/55 8/12 --+-- --+-- 84/69 84/69
D1-0100Z 15/14 68/38 4/2 - - - 87/54 171/123
D1-0200Z 13/8 21/5 11/3 17/12 - - 62/28 233/151
D1-0300Z 5/2 38/17 27/6 - - - 70/25 303/176
D1-0400Z 11/4 58/6 6/2 - - - 75/12 378/188
D1-0500Z 9/4 39/7 4/3 - - - 52/14 430/202
D1-0600Z 5/3 44/6 8/0 - - - 57/9 487/211
D1-0700Z 18/14 42/3 4/2 1/1 - - 65/20 552/231
D1-0800Z 3/4 25/8 8/6 --+-- --+-- --+-- 36/18 588/249
D1-0900Z 2/2 4/4 77/11 - - - 83/17 671/266
D1-1000Z - - 12/3 51/23 - - 63/26 734/292
D1-1100Z - 3/2 3/0 32/14 - - 38/16 772/308 48
D1-1200Z - - 4/4 130/16 4/8 - 138/28 910/336
D1-1300Z - - - 134/12 16/20 - 150/32 1060/368
D1-1400Z - - - 64/7 79/24 - 143/31 1203/399
D1-1500Z - - - 9/5 101/8 8/13 118/26 1321/425
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 47/5 36/23 7/6 90/34 1411/459
D1-1700Z - - - 97/2 13/4 - 110/6 1521/465
D1-1800Z - - - 56/4 10/7 13/8 79/19 1600/484
D1-1900Z - - - 53/10 8/6 2/1 63/17 1663/501
D1-2000Z - - 85/7 7/4 3/1 - 95/12 1758/513
D1-2100Z - - 100/2 4/0 1/0 - 105/2 1863/515
D1-2200Z - - 87/5 8/4 - - 95/9 1958/524
D1-2300Z 1/0 10/0 58/1 5/4 - - 74/5 2032/529
D2-0000Z --+-- 8/0 19/0 4/1 --+-- --+-- 31/1 2063/530
D2-0100Z - 30/4 13/6 - - - 43/10 2106/540
D2-0200Z 14/8 8/2 3/0 - - - 25/10 2131/550
D2-0300Z 8/4 37/1 1/1 2/0 - - 48/6 2179/556
D2-0400Z - 70/2 3/2 - - - 73/4 2252/560
D2-0500Z 2/0 68/0 1/1 - - - 71/1 2323/561
D2-0600Z 1/0 102/2 - - - - 103/2 2426/563
D2-0700Z - 84/0 4/0 - - - 88/0 2514/563
D2-0800Z 1/2 6/1 1/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 8/3 2522/566 47
D2-0900Z - 2/0 1/0 - - - 3/0 2525/566 55
D2-1000Z 1/0 6/1 13/7 - - - 20/8 2545/574 D2-1100Z - 2/0 10/0 33/3 - - 45/3 2590/577 D2-1200Z - - - 156/3 1/0 - 157/3 2747/580 D2-1300Z - - - 141/1 8/1 - 149/2 2896/582 D2-1400Z - - - 27/0 129/9 - 156/9 3052/591 D2-1500Z - - - 13/2 108/6 3/4 124/12 3176/603 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 98/1 11/2 2/2 111/5 3287/608 D2-1700Z - - - 69/1 8/5 - 77/6 3364/614 D2-1800Z - - - 74/0 3/2 5/1 82/3 3446/617 D2-1900Z - - - 53/5 7/1 - 60/6 3506/623 D2-2000Z - - 74/6 1/1 1/2 - 76/9 3582/632 D2-2100Z - - 90/3 4/1 1/0 - 95/4 3677/636 D2-2200Z - - 15/0 42/2 - - 57/2 3734/638 D2-2300Z 2/2 17/5 - 18/5 - - 37/12 3771/650 Total: 112/73 792/114 821/1381458/161 548/129 40/35
The best 60 minute rate was 165/hour from 1418 to 1517 The best 30 minute rate was 180/hour from 1448 to 1517 The best 10 minute rate was 222/hour from 1449 to 1458
By continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % EU 54 681 664 1216 427 0 3042 80.7 NA 44 76 82 83 42 10 337 8.9 SA 8 15 22 38 39 25 147 3.9 AS 2 6 22 88 8 0 126 3.3 AF 4 12 20 21 26 5 88 2.3 OC 0 1 11 11 5 0 28 0.7
The following stations were worked on 6 bands:
VP9I PZ5C P40L HC8N WP2Z PJ2T VE3EJ 8P5A 5J1W