2016 ARRL DX Contest SSB K5ZD
ARRL DX Contest, SSB Call: K5ZD Class: SO Unlimited HP Operating Time (hrs): 19 Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 42 33 80: 133 58 40: 172 71 20: 668 107 15: 856 108 10: 375 91 ------------------- Total: 2246 468 Total Score = 3,153,384 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Wow! Sure didn’t expect conditions to be this good. Every band was great during the times I was on.
Only a part time effort, but that made it even more fun. Mostly chased countries and tried to run when I could find a frequency.
Personal best hour from the USA with 229 on Sat morning on 20m. SH5 says best 60 mins was 230 QSOs. Lots of other good hours. When I could find a frequency where I could hear.
Splatter was bad, but I did say something to a few of the worst and they seemed to be able to clean it up. You don’t know if you don’t ask.
Was fun being Assisted so I could chase countries. Also had the online scoreboard up so I could track some of the other guys. Fun to try to catch the next score on the list.
My goal was 1000 QSOs, but conditions and rates were so good, I couldn’t stop.
Most amazing opening was Sat evening on 15m into Japan. Signals were really loud and I was even able to run JA for 45 minutes.
I went single radio for this one. Something is going on in my shack and I get terrible RF feedback in the headphones when using the YCCC SO2R box. It was clean when I plugged the headphones into the radio. With the DX Cluster, I didn’t really need the second radio.
23 stations worked on 6 bands! Its nice when 10m and 160m are both open.
5D3A 6Y1LZ 9A1A 9A1P C6ANA CR2X CR6K E7DX EI6JK EI7M EI9E HA1AG KP3Z M6T P40M PJ2T PJ4G PZ5W TI5W TM6M TO66R V26M YL2SM
26 more on 5 bands.
9A8M CS2C DF2SD DR1D ED7P ES5Q EU1A G5W HG7T HI3K II9P IO5O IR4M LX7I OE2S P40L PS2T S50A S54ZZ S57AL SN8B TM1T UA2F VP2MMF YN5Z YV1KK
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 1 12 7 60 92 39 211
I 1 4 22 60 59 32 178
JA 15 81 96
SP 5 8 31 37 11 92
G 1 3 5 27 34 21 91
PA 2 2 50 26 11 91
UA 1 2 34 46 2 85
EA 5 5 27 34 12 83
F 1 4 6 22 30 20 83
Rates:
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z - - - - - - 0/0 0/0 60 0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 0/0 60 0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 0/0 60 0300Z - - 36/25 36/22 - - 72/47 72/47 18 0400Z 8/8 35/24 24/11 - - - 67/43 139/90 0500Z 7/6 44/19 6/5 5/1 - - 62/31 201/121 9 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 201/121 60 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 201/121 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 201/121 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 201/121 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 201/121 60 1100Z - - - 6/5 - - 6/5 207/126 58 1200Z - - - 229/39 - - 229/39 436/165 1300Z - - - 7/1 150/47 11/7 168/55 604/220 1400Z - - - - - 113/44 113/44 717/264 1500Z - - - - 115/15 30/9 145/24 862/288 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 55/8 123/9 4/3 182/20 1044/308 1700Z - - - 16/2 6/5 4/1 26/8 1070/316 50 1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 1070/316 60 1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1070/316 60 2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1070/316 60 2100Z - - - - 38/9 7/2 45/11 1115/327 38 2200Z - - 9/3 22/4 67/11 7/5 105/23 1220/350 2300Z - - - 3/0 12/0 1/1 16/1 1236/351 43 0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1236/351 60 0100Z - - 10/6 28/8 - - 38/14 1274/365 38 0200Z 8/5 18/6 25/5 - - - 51/16 1325/381 15 0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 1325/381 60 0400Z 15/11 25/8 22/11 3/1 - - 65/31 1390/412 0500Z 4/3 7/1 - - - - 11/4 1401/416 51 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 1401/416 60 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1401/416 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1401/416 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1401/416 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1401/416 60 1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 1401/416 60 1200Z - - 5/2 118/3 13/0 - 136/5 1537/421 9 1300Z - - - - 170/3 - 170/3 1707/424 1400Z - - - 1/1 24/0 105/7 130/8 1837/432 1500Z - - - 13/3 - 22/3 35/6 1872/438 30 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 4/3 80/2 28/0 112/5 1984/443 1700Z - - - 1/1 - 15/1 16/2 2000/445 52 1800Z - - - 53/0 8/1 2/1 63/2 2063/447 34 1900Z - - - 18/3 9/4 14/3 41/10 2104/457 21 2000Z - - - - - 9/4 9/4 2113/461 60 2100Z - - - 35/1 26/0 - 61/1 2174/462 19 2200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2174/462 60 2300Z - 4/0 35/3 15/1 15/2 3/0 72/6 2246/468 10 Total: 42/33 133/58 172/71 668/107 856/108 375/91