2007 ARRL DX Contest CW K5ZD
ARRL DX Contest, CW Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP QTH: W1 Operating Time (hrs): 21 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 114 51 80: 334 63 40: 435 82 20: 965 99 15: 295 65 10: 8 4 ------------------- Total: 2151 364 Total Score = 2,348,892 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
Just playing around. The rest of life was getting in the way of contesting this weekend. Plans to visit my inlaws on Sunday canceled out enabling me to get more time in than had originally planned.
Best call worked: DA0UBOOT
Most fun: Getting 50 countries on 160 the first night.
Best rate: 177 QSOs between 1203-1302Z on Sunday (20 meters). This was done with the keyer set to 34WPM and I sent my call after every QSO. If only more guys would send their calls while running…
Best DX: A tie between VK9DNX on 80m Sun morning or getting called by UN4L on 80m with 10 mins to go.
Worst band: 10m. Worked all 4 guys that I heard!
Worked 1511 different stations.
Only one 6 bander: V31TP
Lots of 5 banders(28): 4O1A 9A7A CN2WW CT9L DJ9MH DL7UMK EA3KU EF8M F5OGL FS5KA HP1XX I2WIJ IR4X J7OJ LN3Z LU4DX OL3Z OM0M OM7M P40W P49Y PJ4A UU7J V49A VP5/WJ2O WP3C YR7M ZF2AM
(Not sure how I missed HP1XX on 40m!)
I think it is time to really retire from single-op DX contesting. Had several times with big rates and walked away because I just couldn’t stay with it.
Hard to stay motivated in the part-time operating category as there is nothing to compete for. Need more guys putting their score in the online scoreboard (www.getscores.org).
Some numbers just for fun.
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
AF 4 7 13 23 11 0 58 2.7
EU 87 298 366 846 224 0 1821 84.7
AS 2 2 11 36 3 0 54 2.5
NA 15 17 24 30 20 2 108 5.0
SA 5 7 14 23 28 6 83 3.9
OC 1 3 7 7 9 0 27 1.3
QSO/DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime 0000Z - - - - - - 0/0 607/169 60 0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 607/169 60 0200Z 19/16 - 59/28 - - - 78/44 78/44 0300Z 14/8 57/25 5/5 3/3 - - 79/41 157/85 0400Z 14/7 57/13 12/3 - - - 83/23 240/108 0500Z 58/15 10/1 3/3 - - - 71/19 311/127 0600Z - 104/6 5/2 - - - 109/8 420/135 0700Z 5/3 16/3 64/14 - - - 85/20 505/155 0800Z 2/2 11/7 89/5 --+-- --+-- --+-- 102/14 607/169 11 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 607/169 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 607/169 60 1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 607/169 60 1200Z - - 4/2 9/9 8/8 - 21/19 628/188 47 1300Z - - - 147/31 11/9 - 158/40 786/228 1400Z - - - 19/1 14/9 - 33/10 819/238 36 1500Z - - - 4/2 76/15 - 80/17 899/255 38 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 58/4 8/0 1/1 67/5 966/260 1700Z - - - 34/2 1/0 - 35/2 1001/262 47 1800Z - - - 42/2 6/3 - 48/5 1049/267 40 1900Z - - - 71/15 15/5 - 86/20 1135/287 2000Z - - 7/1 - 2/0 - 9/1 1144/288 49 2100Z - - 4/2 29/12 6/3 1/1 40/18 1184/306 22 2200Z - - 7/1 3/0 - - 10/1 1194/307 53 2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 1194/307 60 0000Z --+-- 2/0 69/5 6/1 --+-- --+-- 77/6 1271/313 13 0100Z - - 28/1 - - - 28/1 1299/314 46 0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1299/314 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 1100Z 1/0 5/5 17/5 - - - 23/10 1322/324 24 1200Z - - - 166/4 2/0 - 168/4 1490/328 1300Z - - - 166/4 1/0 - 167/4 1657/332 1400Z - - - 38/1 101/4 - 139/5 1796/337 1500Z - - - 64/2 3/2 - 67/4 1863/341 30 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1863/341 60 1700Z - - - 22/0 21/0 - 43/0 1906/341 30 1800Z - - - 57/1 11/4 - 68/5 1974/346 1900Z - - 18/0 8/0 5/1 6/2 37/3 2011/349 32 2000Z - - 4/0 7/3 - - 11/3 2022/352 44 2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2022/352 60 2200Z - 1/0 30/4 12/2 4/2 - 47/8 2069/360 23 2300Z 1/0 71/3 10/1 - - - 82/4 2151/364 Tot: 114/51 334/63 435/82 965/99 295/65 8/4