2010 ARRL DX Contest CW K5ZD
ARRL DX Contest, CW Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Operating Time (hrs): 32 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 114 47 80: 528 60 40: 1089 85 20: 1177 88 15: 1055 89 10: 38 18 ------------------- Total: 4001 387 Total Score = 4,645,161 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
Simply, wow. I had forgotten how much fun good conditions can be!
My wife was traveling this weekend so I was a single parent of a 7 year old. Expected that to limit operating time so did no prep for the contest or have any plans to do more than play around. She did a great job of entertaining herself so I got to enjoy these fantastic conditions.
Spent almost all of the my operating time running. The Europeans just kept calling and calling!
Best hour was 199. Think that may be a new personal best on CW.
Had exactly 2000 QSOs at the end of the first 24 hours. Really pushed on Sunday to work 2001 QSOs on day 2!
Big surprise to find 15m wide open to Europe at 11z Sunday morning!
40 was fantastic. At times the JAs were direct path with no flutter. Had a number of UA9 stations call in on 15 through 80. Amazing how low the QRN level was. Even 160 had no static crashes.
Was very lazy on using the second radio. As a result, my multiplier is not very good.
The more I use my Elecraft K3, the more I love it. What a receiver! Paid for itself many times in the crowding on 20, 40, and 80. I never thought a radio made that much difference, but it does.
Thanks for all of the QSOs. Can’t wait to see how many records were broken this weekend. We may see 10 meters open, but we probably won’t see the low bands be this good at the same time. But, that’s what keeps us coming back!
Stations worked on 6 bands: 6Y1LZ, EF8M, KP2M, PJ2T, PJ4X, V31TP, ZF2AM Had 31 stations on 5 bands including many Europeans.
By Continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 98 501 986 1069 959 0 3613 90.3
NA 11 11 17 21 18 13 91 2.3
SA 2 5 12 19 26 22 86 2.1
AS 0 4 52 43 29 0 128 3.2
AF 3 4 11 13 14 3 48 1.2
OC 0 3 11 12 9 0 35 0.9
Rate Sheet
QSO/DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off D1-00Z --+-- --+-- 146/43 --+-- --+-- --+-- 146/43 146/43 D1-01Z - - 82/9 18/9 - - 100/18 246/61 D1-02Z - 132/28 - 5/1 - - 137/29 383/90 D1-03Z 26/22 24/5 40/4 - - - 90/31 473/121 D1-04Z - - 17/0 - - - 17/0 490/121 51 D1-05Z 37/12 7/1 3/0 1/1 - - 48/14 538/135 6 D1-06Z - 135/10 - - - - 135/10 673/145 D1-07Z 2/1 10/3 129/1 - - - 141/5 814/150 D1-08Z --+-- --+-- 36/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 36/0 850/150 46 D1-09Z - - - - - - 0/0 850/150 60 D1-10Z - - - - - - 0/0 850/150 60 D1-11Z - - - - - - 0/0 850/150 60 D1-12Z - - 7/3 - 5/5 - 12/8 862/158 48 D1-13Z - - - - 189/35 - 189/35 1051/193 D1-14Z - - - - 170/5 3/2 173/7 1224/200 D1-15Z - - - 86/28 35/1 5/5 126/34 1350/234 12 D1-16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1350/234 60 D1-17Z - - - 136/8 24/0 4/2 164/10 1514/244 4 D1-18Z - - - 146/8 29/17 - 175/25 1689/269 D1-19Z - - - 132/1 5/1 17/6 154/8 1843/277 D1-20Z - - - 61/4 13/6 - 74/10 1917/287 21 D1-21Z - - - - - - 0/0 1917/287 60 D1-22Z - - - - - - 0/0 1917/287 60 D1-23Z - - 45/2 34/10 5/1 - 84/13 2001/300 7 D2-00Z 2/0 --+-- 92/5 4/2 --+-- --+-- 98/7 2099/307 D2-01Z 8/3 10/0 - - - - 18/3 2117/310 33 D2-02Z - - - - - - 0/0 2117/310 60 D2-03Z - 53/4 - - - - 53/4 2170/314 28 D2-04Z 15/2 60/3 11/3 - - - 86/8 2256/322 D2-05Z 18/3 66/0 6/1 - - - 90/4 2346/326 D2-06Z 6/4 23/1 63/1 - - - 92/6 2438/332 D2-07Z - 6/3 102/2 - - - 108/5 2546/337 D2-08Z --+-- 1/1 59/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 60/4 2606/341 23 D2-09Z - - - - - - 0/0 2606/341 60 D2-10Z - - - - - - 0/0 2606/341 60 D2-11Z - 1/1 12/3 - 128/5 - 141/9 2747/350 6 D2-12Z - - 1/0 1/0 179/4 - 181/4 2928/354 D2-13Z - - - 6/0 167/3 - 173/3 3101/357 D2-14Z - - - 59/2 70/3 - 129/5 3230/362 D2-15Z - - - 146/0 8/0 - 154/0 3384/362 D2-16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 41/0 3/0 --+-- 44/0 3428/362 40 D2-17Z - - - 79/1 4/1 5/2 88/4 3516/366 10 D2-18Z - - - 86/2 7/0 4/1 97/3 3613/369 D2-19Z - - - 100/5 6/1 - 106/6 3719/375 D2-20Z - - - 20/0 5/1 - 25/1 3744/376 41 D2-21Z - - 60/1 11/3 3/0 - 74/4 3818/380 8 D2-22Z - - 139/4 - - - 139/4 3957/384 D2-23Z - - 39/0 5/3 - - 44/3 4001/387 30 Total: 114/47 528/60 1089/85 1177/88 1055/89 38/18