2017 ARRL DX Contest CW K5ZD
ARRL DX Contest, CW Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SO Unlimited HP Operating Time (hrs): 24 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 133 56 80: 378 86 40: 737 106 20: 789 112 15: 717 102 10: 29 17 ------------------- Total: 2783 479 Total Score = 3,999,171 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
YO3JR and KO8SCA were planning to visit for the weekend and do a multi-single effort. Their plans changed so I was left on my own. Was on a work phone call when the contest started. Then the radio wouldn’t send CW until I rebooted. So started 10 minutes late.
Had another work event on Saturday afternoon so turned in early to get some sleep. Was well rested for the great Eu run first thing on 15m! Wow.
Operated most of the second 24 hours. Would stop when it quit being fun. Problem with a part time effort is you end up with 3.999M points and know that you could have easily run for a few more minutes earlier in the weekend and gone over 4M.
Could not believe the multiplier. Countries everywhere. Lots of spots on 10m, but missed a lot of “easy” ones there.
Best QSO of the weekend was XV1X on 40m LP Sunday morning. He was loud! Second best was UA9BA calling on 15m a good 4 hours after his sunset. Always amazing how late the Europeans come in on 40m. They were still there after our sunrise.
People seemed to be signing their call more. Or maybe it just felt that way because I had the RBN feeding the band maps.
Fun to watch the cqcontest.net scoreboard. Definitely kept me engaged on the radio more than I had planned. Always fun to chase down the guy in front of me.
Thanks to everyone around the world who spent their weekend chasing W/VE stations. You are what make this contest fun for us.
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
Rates:
QSO/DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z --+-- --+-- 65/28 29/21 --+-- --+-- 94/49 94/49 0100Z - 86/27 61/14 2/1 - - 149/42 243/91 0200Z 46/25 31/11 20/13 - - - 97/49 340/140 0300Z 8/5 43/10 19/15 7/5 - - 77/35 417/175 0400Z 16/4 16/7 6/3 - - - 38/14 455/189 24 0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 455/189 60 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 455/189 60 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 455/189 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 455/189 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 455/189 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 455/189 60 1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 455/189 60 1200Z - - - - - - 0/0 455/189 60 1300Z - - - 1/1 205/36 - 206/37 661/226 1 1400Z - - - 148/52 25/22 - 173/74 834/300 1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 834/300 60 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 92/3 23/8 13/11 128/22 962/322 9 1700Z - - - - 15/4 5/3 20/7 982/329 50 1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 982/329 60 1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 982/329 60 2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 982/329 60 2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 982/329 60 2200Z - - - - - - 0/0 982/329 60 2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 982/329 60 0000Z --+-- 9/1 48/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 57/4 1039/333 37 0100Z 2/2 18/9 31/5 10/2 - - 61/18 1100/351 0200Z 17/9 18/2 23/4 - - - 58/15 1158/366 0300Z 13/3 23/5 33/2 - - - 69/10 1227/376 0400Z - - 1/0 - - - 1/0 1228/376 58 0500Z 27/6 28/7 16/4 - - - 71/17 1299/393 0600Z 3/1 50/5 49/3 - - - 102/9 1401/402 0700Z - 4/0 147/3 - - - 151/3 1552/405 0800Z --+-- 4/0 54/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 58/2 1610/407 24 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1610/407 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1610/407 60 1100Z - 4/1 6/2 72/1 - - 82/4 1692/411 20 1200Z - - - 199/2 - - 199/2 1891/413 1300Z - - - 56/7 108/9 - 164/16 2055/429 1400Z - - - 31/3 129/5 - 160/8 2215/437 1500Z - - - 12/3 116/4 3/1 131/8 2346/445 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 6/1 59/4 2/1 67/6 2413/451 23 1700Z - - - - - - 0/0 2413/451 60 1800Z - - - 18/2 6/5 2/1 26/8 2439/459 34 1900Z - - - 90/3 18/4 4/0 112/7 2551/466 2000Z - - 94/0 6/0 6/1 - 106/1 2657/467 2100Z - - 46/3 3/0 7/0 - 56/3 2713/470 20 2200Z - - - 2/2 - - 2/2 2715/472 60 2300Z 1/1 44/1 18/2 5/3 - - 68/7 2783/479 Tot: 133/56 378/86 737/106 789/112 717/102 29/17
Best 60 minutes: 210 QSOs on 18-Feb 1301-1401
Worked on 6 bands:
8P5A D4C P40L P40R P40W PJ2T PJ4X SN8B TI5W TO7A V3T V43Z
51 stations worked on 5 bands!
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 17 42 95 91 124 369
I 8 18 58 63 75 222
OK 9 24 41 35 54 163
UR 4 19 39 46 24 132
UA 3 17 29 61 11 121
SP 5 17 35 28 27 112
F 2 15 29 25 36 107
HA 6 20 19 26 32 103
PA 2 10 27 31 30 100