2012 CQ WW CW Contest K5ZD
K5ZD, Single Operator Assisted All Bands
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs):
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 133 13 59
80: 609 23 95
40: 1066 32 118
20: 945 36 123
15: 1116 34 126
10: 790 29 110
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Total: 4659 167 631 Total Score = 10,745,868
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
I didn’t feel like I had the motivation to do a serious SOAB entry. I have never done Assisted before and it seemed like that would be a fun way to chase DX. On Friday I figured out how to connect to a cluster and set filters to only get Skimmer spots. I would learn on the job.
I now know that even being assisted doesn’t always help with the people who won’t send their calls. People – it only takes 3 seconds to send your call!
Conditions were clearly down on Saturday, but that just meant all the action was on 15m instead of 10m. Sunday things were better and 10 meters returned.
160m and 80m were good all weekend. Very quiet here in W1. 40m was wiped out at the start of the contest, but got better through the weekend.
Bands didn’t seem to be as crowded. Maybe it was just having room for everyone to spread out across multiple bands. Sure nice having some space to hear the weak ones.
Rates were fantastic. Best 60 minutes was 220 QSOs – a personal best on CW! And part of the reason I couldn’t stop operating once I started. What was planned to be a casual effort became a full on push for maximum score. Two hours off the first night and 4 hours the second. Probably could slept less, but wanted to be fresh for the big runs in the daytime.
The Assisted category was fascinating. Always fun to learn new things. Like how to chase spots without losing a run frequency. And how to decide when to keep running and when to chase. Found some of my best multipliers when I was tuning, so can’t rely just on skimmer to find everything.
Hope everyone had as much fun as I did.
Randy, K5ZD
Station Description
Radio 1 – Elecraft K3 + Alpha 76CA Radio 2 – Yeasu FT-1000D + Ameritron AL-1200 (~1200w)
Tower 1 – 100′ Rohn 45G
- 40-2CD @ 110′
- 205CA @ 100′ / 50′
- 5-el 15 @70′ / 35′
- 160m 1/4-wave GP with 4 elevated radials
Tower 2 – 90′ Rohn 25G
- 6-el 10 @90′ with 4/4 @ 60’/30′
- 80m wire 4 square hanging from tower with 16 radials per vertical
- 160m shunt feed tower with 32 radials
Tower 3 – 40′ Rohn 25G
- TH7DXX at 40′ pointed South
Continent Breakdown
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % AF 5 9 17 17 21 23 92 2.0 NA 31 61 102 72 56 45 367 7.9 OC 1 3 9 16 14 9 52 1.1 SA 5 12 28 35 32 40 152 3.3 EU 88 512 884 753 931 669 3837 82.4 AS 3 12 26 52 62 4 159 3.4
Rates
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 00Z --+-- --+-- 57/41 13/19 --+-- --+-- 70/60 70/60 01Z - 49/25 21/16 9/10 - - 79/51 149/111 02Z - 84/27 2/1 - - - 86/28 235/139 03Z 26/26 37/13 - - - - 63/39 298/178 04Z 28/9 - 41/23 - - - 69/32 367/210 05Z 41/13 34/7 - - - - 75/20 442/230 06Z 9/5 86/16 8/2 - - - 103/23 545/253 07Z 5/4 11/7 37/18 - - - 53/29 598/282 08Z 2/2 7/2 100/5 3/4 --+-- --+-- 112/13 710/295 09Z 2/2 2/2 36/5 36/21 - - 76/30 786/325 10Z - - 11/5 4/5 - - 15/10 801/335 43 11Z - - - - - - 0/0 801/335 60 12Z - - 3/0 138/15 - 1/2 142/17 943/352 2 13Z - - - 32/16 148/32 8/12 188/60 1131/412 14Z - - - - 185/24 20/16 205/40 1336/452 15Z - - - - 147/9 35/16 182/25 1518/477 16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 154/6 17/14 171/20 1689/497 17Z - - - 91/7 49/9 6/5 146/21 1835/518 18Z - - - 149/5 22/25 - 171/30 2006/548 19Z - - - 94/5 16/9 17/10 127/24 2133/572 20Z - - 8/1 38/16 - 4/5 50/22 2183/594 21Z - - 135/4 - 12/8 2/0 149/12 2332/606 22Z - - 108/2 - 10/6 5/5 123/13 2455/619 23Z - - 91/0 12/9 11/3 - 114/12 2569/631 00Z --+-- 13/4 57/6 6/7 --+-- --+-- 76/17 2645/648 01Z - 61/4 23/6 12/3 - - 96/13 2741/661 02Z 3/1 16/3 4/4 7/0 - - 30/8 2771/669 03Z 6/4 12/0 30/1 - - - 48/5 2819/674 04Z 1/0 37/3 1/1 4/3 - - 43/7 2862/681 05Z 7/3 77/1 4/1 - - - 88/5 2950/686 06Z 2/2 52/0 21/2 1/1 - - 76/5 3026/691 07Z 1/1 4/2 28/1 1/1 - - 34/5 3060/696 31 08Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 3060/696 60 09Z - - - - - - 0/0 3060/696 60 10Z - - - - - - 0/0 3060/696 60 11Z - 4/2 - 3/1 25/6 - 32/9 3092/705 40 12Z - - - - 156/7 24/14 180/21 3272/726 13Z - - - 3/1 5/3 188/13 196/17 3468/743 14Z - - - 1/1 8/2 171/8 180/11 3648/754 15Z - - - 10/4 - 142/5 152/9 3800/763 16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 37/0 96/7 133/7 3933/770 17Z - - - - 77/3 36/3 113/6 4046/776 18Z - - - 146/0 5/2 4/1 155/3 4201/779 19Z - - - 87/1 11/2 2/1 100/4 4301/783 20Z - - 22/0 25/1 9/2 - 56/3 4357/786 21Z - - 110/2 - 4/0 12/2 126/4 4483/790 22Z - - 76/2 10/1 13/1 - 99/4 4582/794 23Z - 23/0 32/1 10/2 12/1 - 77/4 4659/798 Tot: 133/72 609/118 1066/150 945/159 1116/160 790/139
Six bands: 8P5A 9A1A C5A CR2X CR6K D4C DF0HQ DH0GHU DL4MCF DL8ZAW DP9A DR1A EA2EA EI7M EL2A F6KOP G5O HK1NA II1A IO5O LY2W LZ9W NP4Z OM8A OQ5M P33W PI4CC PJ2T PJ4A PZ5T S50XX SP1NY TM4Q UW3U VP2MMM VP2V/AA7V VE2EKA VP5CW YT2W Z38N
Five bands: 84 !
Thanks to everyone who make this contest so much fun!