2016 CQ WW CW Contest, K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOAB(A) HP Operating Time (hrs): 37 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 63 13 37 80: 496 22 92 40: 625 35 117 20: 1478 35 124 15: 604 26 115 10: 53 15 29 ------------------------------ Total: 3319 146 514 Total Score = 6,238,980 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
This was a great SWL event. I spent many hours listening to Europeans work each other on the low bands. I got so frustrated after the first 2 hours that I went to watch TV.
40m was the worst I have ever heard for a complete contest. It never opened on Friday night and was only a little better Saturday. There was no Eu sunrise bump at all either morning. The band did open early in the afternoons, but not big rates. Longpath to Asia was pretty good on Sunday evening, but only worked a few JA.
80m was really frustrating except for the 05-06z hours each night. The rest of the time I was calling Eu and either getting beat out by other Eu or getting a CQ in response.
The mornings were a rate fest. Unfortunately, 15m was short lived so most of the action was on 20m. Sunday morning I had 14001 and it just kept producing an endless stream of Eu. I tried 15m a few times, but it never produced as much as 20m. Thus the big total on that band.
Was happy to work as much on 10m as I did. A few of the QSOs were marginal so won’t be surprised if I lose a few mults.
There was a clear divide between southern and northern Europe. Not many Scandinavians or northern Russians in the log. Amazing to see how CW activity from EA, F, and I keeps increasing.
Didn’t seem there was a much trouble with key clicks this year. There was some wide and buzzy signals – CR6K and II9P on 15m to name two.
Everything in the station worked perfectly all weekend. Only issue was on Sunday afternoon when the DX Cluster started showing only the suffix of callsigns. The connection dropped and then things were fine so someone must have noticed and made a fix.
I normally run with global RBN spots (minimal filtering). Will need to rethink that with these conditions. Too many spots that weren’t workable.
Sleep strategy was 3 hours the first night. Then 3 hours from 01-04z. Got on for 2 hours and then slept 3 more. That seemed to work out perfectly for missing some bad hours and keeping me alert on Sunday.
I had the online scoreboard (cqcontest.net) on the screen all weekend. Woke up Sat morning in 23rd place. 12 hours later I was #2. Always fun to chase the next score and make the pass. Or watch someone else pass me (motivating!). I was tempted to quit a few times, but I could see everyone was struggling with the conditions.
Thanks to everyone that enjoyed the game. W1 has a real advantage in any DX contest, but especially so this year.
Station:
Station 1 Elecraft K3 + Alpha 76CA
Station 2 Elecraft K3 + Ameritron AL-1500 Logging software WriteLog by W5XD
HamPlus AS-82 for antenna selection
Tower 1 100′ Rohn 45G
Cushcraft 40-2CD at 110′
Hygain 205CA at 100’/50′ in upper/lower/both stack Hygain 155CA at 66’/33′ in upper/lower/both stack 160m elevated GP
Tower 2 90′ Rohn 25G
10m 5/5/5 @ 90’/60’/30′ (only used the top antenna) 80m wire 4 square hanging from ropes off tower Tower shunt fed on 160m.
Tower 3 38′ Rohn 25G
Hygain TH7DXX at 40′ rotary
The Numbers:
By Continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
NA 35 49 92 111 59 16 362 10.9
EU 16 416 455 1233 447 0 2567 77.3
SA 6 12 26 51 52 33 180 5.4
AF 4 9 21 32 26 2 94 2.8
OC 2 7 14 15 14 2 54 1.6
AS 0 3 16 36 5 0 60 1.8
By Hour
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z --+-- 21/26 5/8 35/25 --+-- --+-- 61/59 61/59 0100Z 3/5 8/7 42/41 6/7 - - 59/60 120/119 0200Z 5/4 12/3 - 6/8 - - 23/15 143/134 31 0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 143/134 60 0400Z - 55/20 4/2 - - - 59/22 202/156 17 0500Z 17/16 41/10 11/5 1/1 - - 70/32 272/188 0600Z - 154/5 1/1 - - - 155/6 427/194 0700Z 8/4 37/24 5/8 - - - 50/36 477/230 0800Z 9/8 4/3 7/5 2/2 --+-- --+-- 22/18 499/248 0900Z - 5/0 8/9 - - - 13/9 512/257 47 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 512/257 60 1100Z - 1/1 13/9 22/16 - - 36/26 548/283 32 1200Z - - - 192/29 4/5 - 196/34 744/317 1300Z - - - 41/5 134/31 - 175/36 919/353 1400Z - - - 25/18 129/7 - 154/25 1073/378 1500Z - - - 67/4 75/17 14/16 156/37 1229/415 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 154/7 23/21 --+-- 177/28 1406/443 1700Z - - - 28/6 26/12 14/11 68/29 1474/472 10 1800Z - - 5/3 44/9 12/9 - 61/21 1535/493 1900Z - - 11/6 26/5 4/3 5/4 46/18 1581/511 2000Z - - 89/11 4/3 9/3 - 102/17 1683/528 2100Z - 1/2 74/13 7/3 1/1 - 83/19 1766/547 2200Z - - 57/9 - 1/0 - 58/9 1824/556 2300Z 5/6 - 57/7 3/0 - - 65/13 1889/569 0000Z --+-- 14/5 34/4 --+-- --+-- --+-- 48/9 1937/578 3 0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 1937/578 60 0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 1937/578 60 0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 1937/578 60 0400Z 3/3 9/4 8/1 2/1 - - 22/9 1959/587 1 0500Z 6/2 16/2 2/2 - - - 24/6 1983/593 0600Z 4/2 78/0 1/0 - - - 83/2 2066/595 0700Z - 14/0 2/0 - - - 16/0 2082/595 33 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2082/595 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2082/595 60 1000Z - 2/0 - - - - 2/0 2084/595 57 1100Z - 2/1 6/2 105/4 - - 113/7 2197/602 1200Z - - - 176/0 8/3 - 184/3 2381/605 1300Z - - - 141/1 37/15 - 178/16 2559/621 1400Z - - - 130/0 13/4 4/5 147/9 2706/630 1500Z - - - 76/0 38/1 1/0 115/1 2821/631 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 23/0 60/8 --+-- 83/8 2904/639 1700Z - - - 50/1 4/0 3/2 57/3 2961/642 1800Z - - - 40/1 8/1 7/5 55/7 3016/649 1900Z - - 21/0 22/0 4/0 5/1 52/1 3068/650 2000Z - - 32/1 4/0 13/0 - 49/1 3117/651 2100Z - - 85/1 22/3 1/0 - 108/4 3225/655 2200Z - 9/0 13/3 24/0 - - 46/3 3271/658 2300Z 3/0 13/1 32/1 - - - 48/2 3319/660 Total: 63/50 496/114 625/152 1478/159 604/141 53/44
Most worked DX
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 105 61 220 88 474
EA 2 10 23 58 42 135
F 2 20 22 44 38 126
G 1 19 23 60 15 118
I 17 45 85 47 194
OK 40 29 58 32 159
SP 23 24 59 16 122
UA 8 18 100 1 127
UR 7 31 80 7 125
VE 18 21 32 42 11 124
149 different country multipliers worked.
10 stations worked on 6 bands:
6Y9X 8P5A 9Y4/VE3EY HK1NA PJ2T PJ4Q TI5W V26K V47T VP2ESM
37 stations worked on 5 bands:
6Y3T 9A7A CN2AA CN2R CR3OO CR6K CU4DX EA2EA EF8R HC2AO HG7T HI3CC HR2J J70BH KH6J KH7M KP2M KP2Q LX7I NP4DX P40W PI4CC PJ4A PS2T PZ5V TK0C TM6M VC2T VC3W/2 VC7X VE3EJ VE3JM VE3YAA VE9AA XL3A ZD8W ZF2MJ
Best 60 minutes: 202 QSOs