2018 CQ WPX RTTY AK1W (K5ZD)
CQ WPX RTTY Contest Call: AK1W Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP QTH: W1 Operating Time (hrs): 22 Summary: Band QSOs ------------ 80: 275 40: 674 20: 872 15: 46 10: 0 ------------ Total: 1867 Prefixes = 820 Total Score = 4,752,720
Comments
Something about near infinite mults that is fun. Always a thrill when some unusual prefix calls in. Of course, it does make the scores go up exponentially as you go deeper in the contest so time wasted at the beginning is difficult to make up.
Thought I would just play a bit, but watching the scoreboard drew me in and operated way more than planned. Fun to chase WK1Q, N3QE, and W3LL all weekend.
Rain all day on Sunday also encouraged some extra operating time.
Not much 2 band run time. 15 was really poor. Worked a few Eu both mornings.
CR6T was in for hours, but no one else.
Low bands were great. Having RW0A call in on 40 meters Sunday evening was amazing. He had a big signal.
The skill and efficiency of RTTY ops keeps improving. And rates are better as a result.
Thanks to everyone for the fun and the QSOs!
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 70 275 565 8 0 918 49.2
NA 201 373 230 24 0 828 44.3
SA 3 15 25 13 0 56 3.0
AS 0 3 43 0 0 46 2.5
OC 0 4 2 1 0 7 0.4
AF 1 4 6 0 0 11 0.6
Rates
QSO/Pref by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z 14/14 32/32 --+-- --+-- --+-- 46/46 46/46 30 0100Z 41/28 73/56 - - - 114/84 160/130 0200Z 37/17 52/38 - - - 89/55 249/185 0300Z 54/25 57/38 - - - 111/63 360/248 0400Z 5/2 - - - - 5/2 365/250 57 0500Z - - - - - 0/0 365/250 60 0600Z - - - - - 0/0 365/250 60 0700Z - - - - - 0/0 365/250 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 365/250 60 0900Z - - - - - 0/0 365/250 60 1000Z - - - - - 0/0 365/250 60 1100Z 5/3 - - - - 5/3 370/253 55 1200Z 2/1 25/6 86/51 - - 113/58 483/311 1300Z - 32/9 78/50 - - 110/59 593/370 1400Z - 17/7 57/23 2/2 - 76/32 669/402 1500Z - - 73/35 3/1 - 76/36 745/438 1600Z --+-- --+-- 75/34 1/0 --+-- 76/34 821/472 1700Z - - 9/9 1/0 - 10/9 831/481 48 1800Z - - - - - 0/0 831/481 60 1900Z - 6/1 18/5 11/4 - 35/10 866/491 29 2000Z - 44/11 40/13 - - 84/24 950/515 2100Z - 19/5 74/30 - - 93/35 1043/550 2200Z - 13/9 47/29 13/8 - 73/46 1116/596 2300Z - 19/7 3/1 - - 22/8 1138/604 38 0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1138/604 60 0100Z - - - - - 0/0 1138/604 60 0200Z - - - - - 0/0 1138/604 60 0300Z - - - - - 0/0 1138/604 60 0400Z 29/10 55/27 - - - 84/37 1222/641 13 0500Z 31/5 54/14 - - - 85/19 1307/660 0600Z 7/1 7/1 - - - 14/2 1321/662 45 0700Z - - - - - 0/0 1321/662 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1321/662 60 0900Z - - - - - 0/0 1321/662 60 1000Z - - - - - 0/0 1321/662 60 1100Z - - - - - 0/0 1321/662 60 1200Z 9/2 19/4 31/10 - - 59/16 1380/678 19 1300Z - 1/0 86/31 2/1 - 89/32 1469/710 1400Z - - 61/29 3/1 - 64/30 1533/740 1500Z - - 59/15 7/1 - 66/16 1599/756 1600Z --+-- --+-- 21/11 1/0 --+-- 22/11 1621/767 39 1700Z - - - - - 0/0 1621/767 60 1800Z - - - - - 0/0 1621/767 60 1900Z - - - - - 0/0 1621/767 60 2000Z - - - - - 0/0 1621/767 60 2100Z - 56/8 23/3 2/0 - 81/11 1702/778 10 2200Z - 31/8 29/14 - - 60/22 1762/800 2300Z 41/10 62/8 2/2 - - 105/20 1867/820 Tot: 275/118 674/289 872/395 46/18 0/0