2009 ARRL DX SSB Contest (KM3T opr)
K5ZD (KM3T opr.), Single Op All Band, High Power
ARRL DX Contest, SSB Call: K5ZD Operator(s): KM3T Station: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP QTH: MA Operating Time (hrs): 45.5 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 69 51 80: 301 71 40: 565 78 20: 1801 118 15: 135 57 10: 5 2 ------------------- Total: 2876 377 Total Score = 3,252,756 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
That was fun, for some value of fun. (If you don’t get that, ask someone who knows some higher level math). 😉
I don’t do any preparation for these single op events. For me, at least, it’s a lot of wasted energy. I kind of believe you have these innate and learned skills and you sit down on Friday night, you are dealt some cards, and you play the game. (Easy to say for a guest op – all the thanks go to Randy for having a well-built and simple to operate SO2R station.) But I did sleep a little bit Friday afternoon – that helped.
I tried to balance things out – 20m never really stopped producing *something* but I got real tired of the band. For much of both days *everyone* was there – that wears you out. I know I could have broken 2,000 Q’s there but the band broke me before I broke the 2,000.
Got a teaser opening on 15m Sunday morning and probably spent a little more time than I should have over there calling CQ. But it seemed to produce mults every time there was a tiny opening so I tried to give it a little time, but it really broke the 20m rhythm up since it really took CQing to milk things out of the band. If everyone is tuning the band, how do you know its open? I think with sunspot numbers this low there is a lot of that going on. And missed openings as a result. Good thing we have our M/M’s beaconing on those bands!
80 and 40 were pretty good. Conditions on 160 were good both nights, could have spent a little more time there, too. 40m simplex is GREAT.
Can’t wait for the whole world to be broken out of the 7.000-7.100 prison. Probably weighted 80 a little too much this time…not sure the MUF dropped quite enough to get serious suck-out on 40. Live and learn.
All in all, good fun. For a phone contest. 🙂 Thanks to all the DX stations who come out and work these contests year after year! And congrats to all the ops who sat in chairs all weekend and cheated death for 48 more hours while contributing to their fame, fortune, and contest club scores – now let’s all spend at least 2 hours next weekend exercising instead so we can increase our chances of living for the next one. 🙂
Many thanks to Randy (and his wife Connie) for letting me invade his station, even while he was away on a business trip.
73,
Dave KM3T
By Continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 21 24 33 48 31 0 157 5.5 SA 6 10 24 41 56 5 142 4.9 EU 39 257 468 1530 39 0 2333 81.1 OC 1 6 26 18 1 0 52 1.8 AF 2 3 9 18 7 0 39 1.4 AS 0 1 5 146 1 0 153 5.3
Rate Sheet
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- 58/29 23/14 --+-- --+-- 81/43 81/43 D1-0100Z - 36/20 47/11 - - - 83/31 164/74 D1-0200Z 9/8 27/9 13/1 - - - 49/18 213/92 D1-0300Z 7/6 21/5 10/3 - - - 38/14 251/106 D1-0400Z 7/7 22/2 9/2 - - - 38/11 289/117 D1-0500Z 10/8 31/4 14/5 - - - 55/17 344/134 D1-0600Z 1/0 18/7 30/6 - - - 49/13 393/147 D1-0700Z - 5/4 80/3 - - - 85/7 478/154 D1-0800Z 1/1 7/5 47/1 --+-- --+-- --+-- 55/7 533/161 D1-0900Z 2/1 4/1 23/2 - - - 29/4 562/165 D1-1000Z - 1/0 2/1 103/33 - - 106/34 668/199 D1-1100Z - - - 193/14 - - 193/14 861/213 D1-1200Z - - - 108/8 13/6 - 121/14 982/227 D1-1300Z - - - 102/5 7/3 - 109/8 1091/235 D1-1400Z - - - 88/3 27/19 - 115/22 1206/257 D1-1500Z - - - 84/2 8/3 - 92/5 1298/262 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 118/5 --+-- --+-- 118/5 1416/267 D1-1700Z - - - 70/1 - - 70/1 1486/268 1 D1-1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 1486/268 60 D1-1900Z - - - 23/4 4/3 4/2 31/9 1517/277 8 D1-2000Z - - - 35/2 2/0 1/0 38/2 1555/279 D1-2100Z - - - 54/1 1/1 - 55/2 1610/281 D1-2200Z - 7/0 - 37/11 - - 44/11 1654/292 D1-2300Z - 37/3 12/1 2/0 - - 51/4 1705/296 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 29/2 8/3 --+-- --+-- 37/5 1742/301 D2-0100Z 2/1 1/1 30/1 3/1 - - 36/4 1778/305 D2-0200Z 9/6 3/0 5/2 - - - 17/8 1795/313 D2-0300Z 1/1 - 2/0 - - - 3/1 1798/314 47 D2-0400Z 2/2 1/1 - - - - 3/3 1801/317 49 D2-0500Z 9/5 25/2 1/0 - - - 35/7 1836/324 D2-0600Z 4/2 33/2 3/1 - - - 40/5 1876/329 D2-0700Z - 1/0 68/4 - - - 69/4 1945/333 D2-0800Z 2/1 2/2 46/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 50/3 1995/336 D2-0900Z 1/1 4/3 7/1 - - - 12/5 2007/341 D2-1000Z - - 1/0 54/0 - - 55/0 2062/341 D2-1100Z - - - 108/1 - - 108/1 2170/342 D2-1200Z - - - 100/2 - - 100/2 2270/344 D2-1300Z - - - 71/0 13/11 - 84/11 2354/355 D2-1400Z - - - 29/0 16/0 - 45/0 2399/355 D2-1500Z - - - 39/0 22/7 - 61/7 2460/362 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 54/1 2/0 --+-- 56/1 2516/363 D2-1700Z - - - 64/0 4/1 - 68/1 2584/364 D2-1800Z - - - 26/0 15/2 - 41/2 2625/366 D2-1900Z - - - 58/2 - - 58/2 2683/368 D2-2000Z - - 1/0 58/1 - - 59/1 2742/369 D2-2100Z - - - 60/3 1/1 - 61/4 2803/373 D2-2200Z - - 27/2 15/0 - - 42/2 2845/375 D2-2300Z 2/1 15/0 - 14/1 - - 31/2 2876/377 Total: 69/51 301/71 565/78 1801/118 135/57 5/2