2017 CQ WW CW Contest K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOAB(A) HP Operating Time (hrs): 23.8 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 68 13 42 80: 310 22 90 40: 387 31 116 20: 1044 33 122 15: 708 27 117 10: 13 9 10 ------------------------------ Total: 2530 135 497 Total Score = 4,632,560 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
Part time fun. Business trip leaving on Sunday afternoon and my son was home for the holidays. Decided to avoid trying to do anything competitive. Was serious when I was on, but walked away when it wasn’t fun or the family wanted to do something.
Friday night was tough. Even the loud Eu on 80m couldn’t hear me. 160 was even tougher. I am concerned that my 40m beam is now acting like a dipole, the 80m 4 square has high dump power beaming Eu, and got beat out by everyone and his brother on 160m. Time for some maintenance.
Woke up late Sat morning and 20m was already packed. Tuned the radio up on 15m ad heard signals so called CQ. Started slow but then became a raging pileup. Fun!!
Sunday morning I got up earlier and found spot on 20m. Always fun when the Russians are coming in. Although a snarl of callers all on the same frequency really slows things down.
Weird to have 9 zones and 10 countries on 10m. Saw lots of spots for Caribbean stations, but I only heard band noise when I checked them out. Band was very spotlight.
Did much better than expected. Conditions were interesting and entertaining, although frustrating with lower than normal signal levels. Signal quality (with a few exceptions) was better than ever.
Always great to hear so many friends from around the world. Thanks for the QSOs.
I think I am done with truly competitive single ops. Time for the younger guys to take over.
Some numbers…
By Continents
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
NA 29 37 43 50 41 4 204 8.1
SA 6 11 24 30 40 7 118 4.7
OC 1 2 9 7 6 0 25 1.0
EU 28 246 280 909 596 0 2059 81.4
AF 4 9 19 25 22 2 81 3.2
AS 0 5 11 22 3 0 41 1.6
By hour
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- 68/46 20/26 --+-- --+-- 88/72 88/72 D1-0100Z - 65/46 35/21 3/1 - - 103/68 191/140 D1-0200Z - 36/12 5/2 - - - 41/14 232/154 D1-0300Z 14/16 29/5 5/5 - - - 48/26 280/180 D1-0400Z 5/4 41/4 38/8 - - - 84/16 364/196 D1-0500Z 6/5 39/10 24/13 - - - 69/28 433/224 D1-0600Z 3/0 - 4/2 - - - 7/2 440/226 55 D1-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 440/226 60 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 440/226 60 D1-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 440/226 60 D1-1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 440/226 60 D1-1100Z 1/0 6/5 15/14 10/13 - - 32/32 472/258 31 D1-1200Z - - - 50/27 122/37 - 172/64 644/322 D1-1300Z - - - 14/6 201/14 - 215/20 859/342 D1-1400Z - - - 48/13 54/42 - 102/55 961/397 D1-1500Z - - - 144/17 15/9 3/6 162/32 1123/429 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1123/429 60 D1-1700Z - - - 59/16 6/0 4/5 69/21 1192/450 26 D1-1800Z - - 1/0 26/4 12/10 1/2 40/16 1232/466 D1-1900Z - - - 6/4 9/1 - 15/5 1247/471 25 D1-2000Z - - - - 4/3 2/2 6/5 1253/476 60 D1-2100Z - - 125/5 9/3 - - 134/8 1387/484 D1-2200Z - 3/3 15/9 3/3 2/3 - 23/18 1410/502 29 D1-2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 1410/502 60 D2-0000Z --+-- 4/3 8/5 1/0 --+-- --+-- 13/8 1423/510 31 D2-0100Z - 7/2 - - - - 7/2 1430/512 49 D2-0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 1430/512 60 D2-0300Z 20/14 6/7 7/6 - - - 33/27 1463/539 6 D2-0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 1463/539 60 D2-0500Z 10/9 40/7 10/6 1/2 - - 61/24 1524/563 7 D2-0600Z 9/7 27/7 22/2 - - - 58/16 1582/579 D2-0700Z - 7/1 2/1 - - - 9/2 1591/581 52 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1591/581 60 D2-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1591/581 60 D2-1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1591/581 60 D2-1100Z - - 3/2 122/6 - - 125/8 1716/589 D2-1200Z - - - 191/0 11/8 - 202/8 1918/597 D2-1300Z - - - 63/4 110/3 1/2 174/9 2092/606 D2-1400Z - - - 22/2 133/6 1/1 156/9 2248/615 D2-1500Z - - - 151/3 13/1 - 164/4 2412/619 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 83/0 7/2 1/1 91/3 2503/622 14 D2-1700Z - - - 6/1 5/5 - 11/6 2514/628 48 D2-1800Z - - - 12/4 4/0 - 16/4 2530/632 42 D2-1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2530/632 60 D2-2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 2530/632 60 D2-2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2530/632 60 D2-2200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2530/632 60 D2-2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2530/632 60 Total: 68/55 310/112 387/147 1044/155 708/144 13/19
Best 60 minutes: 216 a personal best from USA (sending call almost every QSO)
Worked on 6 bands:
TI7W
Worked on 5 bands:
6Y0W 6Y3M 9A1A 9A7A 9Y4/VE3EY CE3CT CN2AA CN2R CR3OO EF8R ES9C HG7T HQ9X IR4M LN8W LY4A LZ9W M6T P40C P40L PJ2T PJ4Y TK0C TO2SP V26K V47T VP5M VY2TT YT5A ZF2MJ