2008 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): 45 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 126 16 55 80: 717 24 97 40: 1217 32 112 20: 1755 32 124 15: 149 24 69 10: 14 4 6 ------------------------------ Total: 3978 132 463 Total Score = 6,800,255 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
I am officially announcing my retirement as a serious 40+ hour single op (at least from the USA -or- until the sunspots return).
Any contest other than CQ WW CW this weekend, and I would have quit. Tough conditions, although when it gets bad, New England is a great place to be. Nothing but saltwater between here and Europe!
With only one band open at a time (or so it seemed), was mostly in rate mode while trying to find anything new to work on the second radio. Felt I was doing well for QSOs, but not mults. Will be interesting to see what others report.
The halfway score was 3.3Meg (2295 Q, 118z, 383c).
Was never able to run on 15m or 160m. Looking at my log, I was all search and pounce for the first 2-1/2 hours. Wasn’t able to run much the first night at all. 20 was the exception. Some amazing rate there.
Hard for us non-packet guys to know who some people were. Was frustrating to hear someone running multiple stations and just send “TU”, but never a callsign. V47NT, 8P5A, and P40W are guys who know how to run AND send their calls…
Otherwise, I thought the level of operating was great. Very few bad (wide) signals and I managed to avoid any bad frequency fights. I think this is why CW is so much more enjoyable than phone!
I continue to be amazed by all the multipliers with big QSO numbers reporting in on 3830 and I never heard them all weekend. Room for improvement. 🙂
Audio streaming was running all weekend so I did record the whole thing. Will post the audio files up to my website in January.
Station
Equipment: FT-1000D + Alpha 76CA, FT-1000D + AL-1200
Antennas: 10m – 6-el @ 90′, 15m – 5/5 @ 66’/33′, 20m – 5/5 @ 100’/50′, 40m – 2-el @ 110′, 80m – wire 4 square, 160m – GP, shunt fed tower, TH7DXX @ 40′
Some numbers:
By Continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 67 604 1037 1558 53 0 3319 83.4
AF 3 12 21 28 11 0 75 1.9
AS 0 14 32 28 3 0 77 1.9
NA 47 73 89 102 40 2 353 8.9
SA 7 9 26 32 35 12 121 3.0
OC 2 5 12 7 7 0 33 0.8
Rates
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 00Z --+-- 1/2 116/66 --+-- --+-- --+-- 117/68 117/68 01Z - 59/46 12/2 - - - 71/48 188/116 02Z - 24/10 64/14 - - - 88/24 276/140 03Z - 60/8 39/12 - - - 99/20 375/160 04Z 38/32 3/0 8/5 - - - 49/37 424/197 05Z 8/6 76/8 - - - - 84/14 508/211 06Z 11/9 36/6 - - - - 47/15 555/226 07Z 3/2 17/6 77/3 - - - 97/11 652/237 08Z --+-- 3/3 112/7 --+-- --+-- --+-- 115/10 767/247 09Z 3/1 7/5 82/2 - - - 92/8 859/255 10Z - 3/2 42/11 - - - 45/13 904/268 11Z 5/1 6/5 - 102/34 - - 113/40 1017/308 12Z - - 3/0 175/7 - - 178/7 1195/315 13Z - - - 165/5 19/17 - 184/22 1379/337 14Z - - - 163/6 8/9 - 171/15 1550/352 15Z - - - 138/6 11/14 - 149/20 1699/372 16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 96/4 21/14 3/2 120/20 1819/392 17Z - - - 84/10 14/8 4/4 102/22 1921/414 18Z - - - 38/27 13/8 - 51/35 1972/449 19Z - - 26/3 13/10 8/2 - 47/15 2019/464 20Z - - 75/3 2/2 8/2 1/2 86/9 2105/473 21Z - - 103/2 18/13 - - 121/15 2226/488 22Z - 14/0 14/0 9/3 - - 37/3 2263/491 23Z 10/2 20/6 1/1 - - - 31/9 2294/500 00Z --+-- --+-- 11/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 11/2 2305/502 39 01Z - 40/3 10/3 - - - 50/6 2355/508 02Z - 77/4 5/2 - - - 82/6 2437/514 03Z 29/11 2/0 - - - - 31/11 2468/525 04Z - 61/1 - - - - 61/1 2529/526 05Z 13/3 17/2 - - - - 30/5 2559/531 06Z 4/3 69/1 - - - - 73/4 2632/535 07Z - 52/1 18/0 - - - 70/1 2702/536 08Z 1/1 --+-- 59/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 60/1 2762/537 22 09Z - - - - - - 0/0 2762/537 60 10Z - - - - - - 0/0 2762/537 60 11Z - 5/0 12/1 28/3 - - 45/4 2807/541 21 12Z - - - 128/2 10/5 - 138/7 2945/548 13Z - - - 150/2 18/9 - 168/11 3113/559 14Z - - - 121/2 4/2 - 125/4 3238/563 15Z - - - 113/3 4/0 - 117/3 3355/566 16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 95/5 4/0 --+-- 99/5 3454/571 17Z - - - 45/5 - - 45/5 3499/576 18Z - - - 49/2 2/0 4/1 55/3 3554/579 19Z - - 44/2 11/0 5/3 2/1 62/6 3616/585 20Z - - 122/0 5/2 - - 127/2 3743/587 21Z - - 102/2 5/2 - - 107/4 3850/591 22Z - 8/0 57/0 2/1 - - 67/1 3917/592 23Z 1/0 57/2 3/1 - - - 61/3 3978/595 Tot: 126/71 717/121 1217/144 1755/156 149/93 14/10
Most worked countries
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 5 100 183 283 8 579
UA 5 65 54 137 261 << Wow!
OK 6 43 72 95 5 221
G 5 30 85 111 1 232
UR 3 40 64 92 1 200
I 16 53 89 6 164
SP 4 33 54 63 154
VE 25 31 34 36 10 136
PA 3 16 42 68 129
F 17 45 63 3 128
EA 2 12 42 44 6 106
Only one 6 bander: HC8N