2016 ARRL DX Contest CW K5ZD
ARRL DX Contest, CW Call: K5ZD Class: SO Unlimited HP Operating Time (hrs): 17 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 39 35 80: 277 72 40: 370 90 20: 577 99 15: 682 105 10: 87 65 ------------------- Total: 2032 466 Total Score = 2,840,736 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
My father-in-law passed away last week and the memorial service was on Saturday.
The service and visiting with family was wonderful. That eliminated Saturday
from operating.
Really enjoyed my few hours on the air. Nothing like getting to 15 meters for
the first time on Sunday morning. The pileup was intense! Made me truly
realize how valuable it is to tune off the spot frequency. Those were the guys
that got through fastest.
Best 60 mins was 210 QSOs.
DX contests are really fun when you are not trying to win anything. You can
come and go as you like. Conditions were surprisingly good during the times I
was on. 10m was spotty on Sunday, but there were some loud Europeans. Worked
JA on 80-15.
Worked 19 stations on 6 bands: 6Y1D 8P5A 9A1A CR3W CU4DX KP2M OL7M OM2VL P40XM
PJ2T PJ4X PJ6A SN7Q TI5W TO7A V26M VP2MWA YL2SM ZF1A
Thanks to all the Europeans that helped fill my log.
40m antenna had high SWR. It seemed to get out, but I wasn’t hearing very
well.
160m antenna toward Europe was broken. Missed some mults because of that.
Couldn’t switch the 80m 4 square on Friday night.
Station is falling apart from old age. Time to do some maintenance this
summer.
Rates:
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z - - - - - - 0/0 412/170 60 0100Z - - 6/6 20/12 - - 26/18 26/18 40 0200Z 6/6 40/22 42/24 6/6 - - 94/58 120/76 0300Z 7/6 76/12 23/12 - - - 106/30 226/106 0400Z 7/7 56/10 13/9 - - - 76/26 302/132 0500Z 1/1 17/11 31/12 4/2 - - 53/26 355/158 0600Z 6/4 35/3 16/5 - - - 57/12 412/170 21 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 412/170 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 412/170 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 412/170 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 412/170 60 1100Z - 3/2 5/4 13/9 - - 21/15 433/185 42 1200Z - - - 151/22 - - 151/22 584/207 8 1300Z - - - 16/11 - - 16/11 600/218 60 1400Z - - - 11/1 4/4 31/27 46/32 646/250 30 1500Z - - - - 59/52 - 59/52 705/302 35 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 705/302 60 1700Z - - - - - - 0/0 705/302 60 1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 705/302 60 1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 705/302 60 2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 705/302 60 2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 705/302 60 2200Z - - - - - - 0/0 705/302 60 2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 705/302 60 0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 705/302 60 0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 705/302 60 0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 705/302 60 0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 705/302 60 0400Z 10/10 - - - - - 10/10 715/312 52 0500Z 2/1 20/7 80/4 - - - 102/12 817/324 0600Z - 14/1 25/1 - - - 39/2 856/326 39 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 856/326 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 856/326 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 856/326 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 856/326 60 1100Z - 2/2 2/1 11/1 - - 15/4 871/330 52 1200Z - - - 167/14 34/4 - 201/18 1072/348 1300Z - - - - 200/13 2/2 202/15 1274/363 1400Z - - - - 151/8 13/8 164/16 1438/379 1500Z - - - 25/6 34/6 26/17 85/29 1523/408 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 2/0 164/0 6/6 172/6 1695/414 1700Z - - - - 7/4 1/1 8/5 1703/419 55 1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 1703/419 60 1900Z - - - 56/5 12/6 5/3 73/14 1776/433 22 2000Z - - 42/4 69/4 11/6 3/1 125/15 1901/448 2100Z - - 80/5 11/3 6/2 - 97/10 1998/458 2200Z - - 1/0 11/0 - - 12/0 2010/458 51 2300Z - 14/2 4/3 4/3 - - 22/8 2032/466 48 Total: 39/35 277/72 370/90 577/99 682/105 87/65