2006 ARRL Sweepstakes CW K5ZD
ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW Call: K5ZD Class: Single Op HP QTH: WMA Operating Time (hrs): 24 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs ------------ 160: 7 80: 204 40: 699 20: 314 15: 126 10: 0 ------------ Total: 1350 Sections = 80 Total Score = 216,000 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
I think I worked two of every section. VE4VV provided number 80 on Sunday morning.
Excellent conditions all weekend. Nice to see 40m with relatively short conditions all night. Absolutely no noise here in New England so working 80 and 40 was a pleasure.
Tried something different for off times this year. Operated the first 12 hours without getting out of the chair. Then 3 hours off for sleep. Then back on for 9 hours with no breaks. So operated 21 of the first 24 hours. It always seems like the hours from 23z to 02z are always terrible from here, so decided I would stay on as long as the rate was over 30 per hour. Ended up burning 3 hours of off time in the last 5 hours of the contest, which seemed to work out OK.
We have less and less of the old timer traffic handlers every year. Kudos to those who organize their clubs to make a big effort. Also thanks to all of the QRP stations who join in.
The quality of operating from everyone was superb. Only a few people didn’t know what PR or PREC meant! 🙂
This is my 30th consecutive year with over 1000 QSOs. I think it is time to hang up the streak. But you never know, the lure of SS CW is strong.
Rates
QSO/Sec by hour and band Hour 160 80 40 20 15 Total Cumm OffTime 2100Z - - - 25/14 64/23 89/37 89/37 2200Z - - - 56/15 30/6 86/21 175/58 2300Z - - 32/4 46/6 - 78/10 253/68 0000Z --+-- --+-- 80/4 12/0 --+-- 92/4 345/72 0100Z - 6/1 73/1 3/0 - 82/2 427/74 0200Z - 11/1 73/2 - - 84/3 511/77 0300Z - 7/1 84/0 - - 91/1 602/78 0400Z - 18/0 59/1 - - 77/1 679/79 0500Z - 24/0 36/0 - - 60/0 739/79 0600Z - 21/0 23/0 - - 44/0 783/79 0700Z - 38/0 13/0 - - 51/0 834/79 0800Z --+-- 11/0 23/0 --+-- --+-- 34/0 868/79 6 0900Z - - - - - 0/0 868/79 60 1000Z - - - - - 0/0 868/79 60 1100Z - - - - - 0/0 868/79 60 1200Z - 31/0 18/0 - - 49/0 917/79 2 1300Z - 7/0 30/0 11/1 - 48/1 965/80 1400Z - - 23/0 26/0 - 49/0 1014/80 1500Z - - 32/0 5/0 - 37/0 1051/80 1600Z --+-- --+-- 27/0 5/0 5/0 37/0 1088/80 1700Z - - 21/0 9/0 4/0 34/0 1122/80 1800Z - - 3/0 32/0 - 35/0 1157/80 1900Z - - - 33/0 5/0 38/0 1195/80 2000Z - - 3/0 29/0 3/0 35/0 1230/80 2100Z - - - 9/0 12/0 21/0 1251/80 32 2200Z - - 7/0 7/0 3/0 17/0 1268/80 38 2300Z - 8/0 9/0 3/0 - 20/0 1288/80 16 0000Z --+-- 1/0 3/0 3/0 --+-- 7/0 1295/80 43 0100Z 4/0 21/0 16/0 - - 41/0 1336/80 3 0200Z 3/0 - 11/0 - - 14/0 1350/80 40 Tot: 7/0 204/3 699/12 314/36 126/29