2011 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: 74 15 41 80: 564 22 79 40: 1186 33 107 20: 942 37 114 15: 1080 32 111 10: 1093 29 109 ------------------------------ Total: 4939 168 561 Total Score = 10,434,906 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
I wrote this to someone before the contest. “Habit says prepare like I am going to do it all. Heart says give it a good shot, but only 30 hours. Mind says to spend time with family and blow it off.”
Steak dinner before the contest. Sat down to some amazing conditions and got sucked into the contesting vortex. I was out of the chair for 3 times of <3 minutes each during the first 24 hours.
My line score at the halfway point was 3007/143/454 (5.2 Meg). Never worked 3000 QSOs in 24 hours before – ever! NN1N had made a statement before the contest that he wanted to make 5000 QSOs because no one had ever done it before (single-op from the USA). I started to have visions of such…
Took 25 minutes off at that point to join my family for the Thanksgiving turkey we had missed preparing on Thursday. Made me a little sleepy during the 02z and 03z hours. I think I could have powered through the night, but decided that 3 hours of sleep would make me better prepared for the high rates during the day. Looking at the other scores, a decision I may regret…
I sat down again at 1035z on Sunday morning and only got up for 2 more periods of <3 mins until the end. Best part of all this, did not think about work for the full 48 hours! I needed that.
Unbelievable rates. Although the rate sheet this year looks very similar to 2000 when I made 4500 QSOs from this same station. There must be something to that 11 year sunspot thing!
Very hard to do the second radio when running as fast as possible. I really tried to work the second radio hard on Sunday. Realized I was missing PJ2T on 10m for a mult. Spent an hour covering the full 150 Khz of activity – twice! Still couldn’t find them (did find a lot of other mults though). Heard them on 20m so I called and asked for their 10m frequency. They op replied that they had shut down on 10m. Huh? Oh well, I tried.
Biggest challenge all weekend was people not sending their calls. I get the temptation to just send TU when you have multiple people waiting, but there are always people waiting. Better just to get in a groove and send your call. Some of the worst offenders had some of the shortest calls! (D4C, you know who you are.) I can only think of a few times all weekend when I did the TU thing so high rates are possible while still IDing. It was so nice to tune across someone like 8P5A and instantly know who it was.
Thanks to everyone for sharing the best weekend of fun that is possible on the radio!
Station
Radio 1 – Elecraft K3 + Alpha 76CA
Radio 2 – Yaesu FT1000D + Ameritron AL-1200
Antennas:
160m – 1/4-wave GP, shunt fed tower
80m – 4 square
40m – 40-2CD @ 110′
20m – 205CA stack at 100’/50′
15m – 155CA stack at 66’/33′
10m – 7/4/4 at 90’/60’/30′
Mults – TH7DXX @ 40′ pointed south
By Continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
NA 37 75 92 53 44 46 347 7.0
EU 28 457 1007 779 952 969 4192 84.9
SA 5 12 19 32 29 37 134 2.7
AS 1 6 42 46 32 14 141 2.9
AF 3 10 15 21 17 16 82 1.7
OC 0 4 11 11 6 11 43 0.9
Rates
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z --+-- --+-- 118/45 9/11 1/2 --+-- 128/58 128/58 0100Z - - 81/22 32/34 - - 113/56 241/114 0200Z 5/9 - 79/19 4/4 - - 88/32 329/146 0300Z 26/21 48/27 4/1 2/2 - - 80/51 409/197 0400Z - 141/14 - 7/4 - - 148/18 557/215 0500Z 10/5 74/14 - 1/2 - - 85/21 642/236 0600Z 8/6 20/2 49/4 3/4 - - 80/16 722/252 0700Z - 7/2 128/4 - - - 135/6 857/258 0800Z 3/3 18/15 99/7 --+-- --+-- --+-- 120/25 977/283 0900Z - 4/0 55/12 3/2 - - 62/14 1039/297 1000Z 5/2 10/10 13/5 3/2 - - 31/19 1070/316 1100Z - - 1/0 47/19 91/43 - 139/62 1209/378 1200Z - - - 7/5 132/10 38/23 177/38 1386/416 1300Z - - - - 14/9 181/23 195/32 1581/448 1400Z - - - - 10/6 178/5 188/11 1769/459 1500Z - - - - 128/2 37/8 165/10 1934/469 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 158/6 15/4 173/10 2107/479 1700Z - - - 91/7 71/0 14/9 176/16 2283/495 1800Z - - - 162/13 - 11/8 173/21 2456/516 1900Z - - - 131/4 - 21/16 152/20 2608/536 2000Z - - 3/0 81/8 26/29 - 110/37 2718/573 2100Z - - 77/4 - 10/6 1/2 88/12 2806/585 2200Z - - 109/1 4/1 - 5/0 118/2 2924/587 2300Z - - 67/1 8/5 8/4 - 83/10 3007/597 0000Z --+-- 15/3 2/0 9/2 --+-- --+-- 26/5 3033/602 25 0100Z - 27/2 16/0 8/5 - - 51/7 3084/609 0200Z 6/2 2/3 27/5 - - - 35/10 3119/619 0300Z 4/3 62/1 - - - - 66/4 3185/623 0400Z 2/3 57/0 - - - - 59/3 3244/626 0500Z - 30/1 38/0 1/0 - - 69/1 3313/627 0600Z - 15/1 57/0 - - - 72/1 3385/628 0700Z 4/2 6/0 7/1 4/0 - - 21/3 3406/631 23 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 3406/631 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 3406/631 60 1000Z 1/0 5/5 1/0 7/0 - - 14/5 3420/636 35 1100Z - - 2/3 87/2 10/1 - 99/6 3519/642 1200Z - - - 32/0 8/1 128/7 168/8 3687/650 1300Z - - - - 5/2 170/4 175/6 3862/656 1400Z - - - 1/0 7/0 163/1 171/1 4033/657 1500Z - - - 4/0 55/2 66/2 125/4 4158/661 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 140/3 15/7 155/10 4313/671 1700Z - - - - 118/1 14/7 132/8 4445/679 1800Z - - - 41/0 62/5 10/4 113/9 4558/688 1900Z - - - 96/3 8/4 6/3 110/10 4668/698 2000Z - - - 42/4 - 20/5 62/9 4730/707 2100Z - - 37/0 11/5 5/2 - 53/7 4783/714 2200Z - - 71/2 - 13/5 - 84/7 4867/721 2300Z - 23/1 45/4 4/3 - - 72/8 4939/729 Total: 74/56 564/101 1186/140 942/151 1080/143 1093/138
Best 60 minutes was 201 QSOs. Personal best!
Second radio QSOs – 336
6 bands: 8P5A 9A1A C5A C6AAW DF0HQ DR1A OZ4UN PI4DX
PJ4A VP2MWG VP5CW
5 bands: 75 stations!