2007 CQ WW CW Contest K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP QTH: W1 Operating Time (hrs): 43 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 225 18 69 80: 642 25 101 40: 775 30 115 20: 1301 31 118 15: 506 24 100 10: 29 11 20 ------------------------------ Total: 3478 139 523 Total Score = 6,574,984 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
Whew, that was harder than I expected. We are at the bottom of the cycle, but the Phone contest was so much fun that I expected even better conditions for CW! Great competition for SOAB HP USA this year. Definitely provided the motivation to keep pushing through the poor conditions.
The bands were either open with lots of activity or totally dead. At one point I tuned across 20m and found stations all the way up to 14140! And who would have expected 40m to be a daylight band?! The 10m openings we short and spotty. Definitely a good weekend for doing SO2R in order to run and chase mults.
Worked two JAs all weekend. First one was on 80m. Second was on 20m on Sunday afternoon. Nice to see so many African stations and multipliers.
Wish people would send their calls. I understand the tactical use of not sending the call to run faster, but I would hear guys who had no one calling send TU then wait. I spent a lot of time waiting for people to ID. Not all of us are using packet (and the guys who are should want to hear your call too!).
Most annoying to have the guy finally send his call and it gets wiped out by someone calling.
Thanks to everyone who participated in making this the best contest of the year!
QSOs by Continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 149 510 615 1121 387 0 2782 80.0
NA 60 82 72 85 49 14 362 10.4
AS 1 10 20 27 3 0 61 1.8
AF 9 16 26 34 27 2 114 3.3
SA 4 15 27 29 32 12 119 3.4
OC 2 9 15 5 8 1 40 1.2
Only out of the chair for 3 times. Slept both nights so I would be ready for the high rates during the day.
Rate Sheet
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off D1-00Z --+-- 24/24 63/47 --+-- --+-- --+-- 87/71 87/71 D1-01Z 1/2 33/19 29/25 - - - 63/46 150/117 D1-02Z 23/19 33/5 - - - - 56/24 206/141 D1-03Z 14/15 20/5 - 6/7 - - 40/27 246/168 D1-04Z - 34/14 16/9 - - - 50/23 296/191 D1-05Z 47/16 21/2 2/2 - - - 70/20 366/211 D1-06Z 64/10 26/5 - - - - 90/15 456/226 D1-07Z 11/7 69/6 - 2/2 - - 82/15 538/241 D1-08Z 1/0 44/5 12/8 --+-- --+-- --+-- 57/13 595/254 D1-09Z - 17/9 8/3 - - - 25/12 620/266 16 D1-10Z - - - - - - 0/0 620/266 60 D1-11Z 1/0 3/2 8/5 12/13 - - 24/20 644/286 28 D1-12Z - - 3/3 135/33 - - 138/36 782/322 D1-13Z - - - 139/10 23/33 - 162/43 944/365 D1-14Z - - - 42/5 98/26 - 140/31 1084/396 D1-15Z - - - 67/10 89/8 - 156/18 1240/414 D1-16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 171/6 12/10 --+-- 183/16 1423/430 D1-17Z - - - 110/3 15/9 - 125/12 1548/442 D1-18Z - - - 55/7 15/12 1/2 71/21 1619/463 D1-19Z - - 28/6 35/21 2/1 - 65/28 1684/491 D1-20Z - - 141/6 - 4/1 5/10 150/17 1834/508 D1-21Z - - 117/4 1/2 - 4/5 122/11 1956/519 D1-22Z - - 90/4 6/4 - - 96/8 2052/527 D1-23Z - 31/3 32/2 2/2 - - 65/7 2117/534 D2-00Z --+-- 45/4 13/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 58/6 2175/540 D2-01Z 7/5 16/3 1/0 - - - 24/8 2199/548 24 D2-02Z 10/3 29/3 15/5 - - - 54/11 2253/559 D2-03Z 10/4 32/2 1/0 1/0 - - 44/6 2297/565 D2-04Z 8/2 34/3 - - - - 42/5 2339/570 D2-05Z 4/0 13/1 20/1 - - - 37/2 2376/572 D2-06Z 3/1 59/0 2/0 - - - 64/1 2440/573 D2-07Z 16/2 14/6 1/0 - - - 31/8 2471/581 D2-08Z --+-- 5/1 1/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 6/1 2477/582 48 D2-09Z - - - - - - 0/0 2477/582 60 D2-10Z - - - - - - 0/0 2477/582 60 D2-11Z - 4/3 8/5 1/0 - - 13/8 2490/590 24 D2-12Z - - - 125/4 3/2 - 128/6 2618/596 D2-13Z - - - 122/0 35/5 - 157/5 2775/601 D2-14Z - - - 11/3 118/6 4/5 133/14 2908/615 D2-15Z - - - 3/0 61/4 8/6 72/10 2980/625 D2-16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 114/3 13/1 4/3 131/7 3111/632 D2-17Z - - - 78/0 5/2 3/0 86/2 3197/634 D2-18Z - - - 39/6 6/1 - 45/7 3242/641 D2-19Z - - 43/2 1/0 3/0 - 47/2 3289/643 D2-20Z - - 28/6 11/3 4/3 - 43/12 3332/655 D2-21Z - - 40/0 6/1 - - 46/1 3378/656 D2-22Z - - 52/0 5/4 - - 57/4 3435/660 D2-23Z 5/1 36/1 1/0 1/0 - - 43/2 3478/662 Total: 225/87 642/126 775/145 1301/149 506/124 29/31
Best 30 minutes: 104 QSOs
Best 60 minutes: 187 QSOs
Worked 10 stations on 6 bands (a real accomplishment with 10m so poor):
3X5A HC8N HI3A J3A KP2M PJ2T PJ4A VC3J VP5W ZF1A