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
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   80:  275
   40:  674
   20:  872
   15:   46
   10:    0
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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