2018 CQ WW CW Contest K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Class Overlay: Classic QTH: W1 Operating Time (hrs): 25 Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 114 14 49 80: 266 17 65 40: 722 29 96 20: 1485 31 118 15: 279 20 72 10: 1 1 1 ------------------------------ Total: 2867 112 401 Total Score = 4,238,406 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
We had company for the holidays and the bed in the shack becomes a guest room. They left on Sat morning, but I knew I was going to miss most of the first night so decided to do the Classic overlay – one radio, no spotting.
Started on 20m casually DXing and working Asia. Then moved through each band once. Then I was kicked out.
Back on Saturday morning and wow! The rates on 20m were incredible. Had to finally take the leap and go to 15m. It wasn’t as good, but there were mults there.
Perfect conditions for being in W1. Usually only one band really open to Europe at a time and they were all beaming our way. That means great rates if you can get a frequency!
Must be a bit of WRTC fever still going on in Germany. I don’t recall ever working so many! They just kept calling in. Lots of Russian and Ukraine also.
Best DX was UP2L on 80m. Heard a zone 18 on 80 Friday night, but he CQed in my face. Did work RM9A (17) and RA9Y (18) on Saturday evening. Any QSO with Africa was exciting (and usually meant busting a big unruly pileup).
As always, it was a constant dilemma whether to run or tune for missing mults. I spent most of the time running.
K1TTT was the ONLY signal I heard on 10m all weekend! I don’t recall it ever being so dead in a WW. Thanks for the double mult!
No equipment failures this time. 40m beam is still intermittent on receive and the SWR on the south tribander is high (but it seems to work).
Knowing I needed to maximize my score within 24 hours, I tried not to operate too much the first day. I think I timed it out almost perfectly. The 40m run on Sun evening dried up about 10 mins after I hit the time limit. Spent the last hour just tuning around and enjoying all the cool DX that is in CQWW.
So for my Classic score, it will be something around 2810 QSOs, 110 Z, and
396 C for about 4.1M.
Was very fun to watch the scoreboard all weekend. Especially the battle between D41CV, Ti7W, and ZF1A. Those guys were making amazing rates. For me, it was helpful to have someone to chase when I came back to the shack after being away.
This contest really is the best in terms of activity and operating level. Thanks to everyone for getting on and creating so much fun.
Rates
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z --+-- --+-- 73/32 30/9 --+-- --+-- 103/41 103/41 0100Z - - 98/32 - - - 98/32 201/73 0200Z 16/20 50/43 7/8 - - - 73/71 274/144 0300Z - 24/9 - - - - 24/9 298/153 37 0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 298/153 60 0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 298/153 60 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 298/153 60 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 298/153 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 298/153 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 298/153 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 298/153 60 1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 298/153 60 1200Z - - - 21/15 - - 21/15 319/168 54 1300Z - - - 189/29 - - 189/29 508/197 1400Z - - - 73/4 79/37 - 152/41 660/238 1500Z - - - 102/7 37/14 - 139/21 799/259 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 177/14 --+-- --+-- 177/14 976/273 1700Z - - - 73/29 16/12 - 89/41 1065/314 1800Z - - - 13/1 - 1/2 14/3 1079/317 48 1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1079/317 60 2000Z - - - 34/17 10/7 - 44/24 1123/341 11 2100Z - - 127/9 4/3 - - 131/12 1254/353 2200Z - - 140/9 - - - 140/9 1394/362 2300Z - 27/3 49/16 - - - 76/19 1470/381 0000Z 11/10 59/13 --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 70/23 1540/404 0100Z 29/14 - - - - - 29/14 1569/418 35 0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 1569/418 60 0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 1569/418 60 0400Z 40/8 7/1 - - - - 47/9 1616/427 20 0500Z - 93/12 - - - - 93/12 1709/439 0600Z 18/11 2/0 21/2 - - - 41/13 1750/452 11 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1750/452 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1750/452 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1750/452 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1750/452 60 1100Z - 4/1 10/8 - - - 14/9 1764/461 39 1200Z - - 4/2 175/2 - - 179/4 1943/465 1300Z - - - 198/2 - - 198/2 2141/467 1400Z - - - 17/1 111/10 - 128/11 2269/478 1500Z - - - 148/3 12/5 - 160/8 2429/486 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 165/3 --+-- --+-- 165/3 2594/489 1700Z - - - 36/2 3/1 - 39/3 2633/492 20 1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 2633/492 60 1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2633/492 60 2000Z - - - 1/0 11/6 - 12/6 2645/498 44 2100Z - - 107/2 15/5 - - 122/7 2767/505 2200Z - - 67/2 14/3 - - 81/5 2848/510 2300Z - - 19/3 - - - 19/3 2867/513 40 Tot: 114/63 266/82 722/125 1485/149 279/92 1/2
Best 60 mins: 204
Worked on 6 bands:
None!
Worked on 5 bands:
9Y4/VE3EY CN3A CR5E D41CV DA2X DF0HQ DR4A EC2DX EF8R G5O IR4X LZ9W M6T P33W PI4CC PJ2T R7AB TK0C YT5A
Missed a lot of easy Caribbean mults on 160 because I missed the first night and didn’t op much past 06z on Sat night.
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 6 29 125 247 34 441
UA 7 22 34 108 3 174
I 2 7 49 83 31 172
UR 4 17 38 76 2 137
G 6 7 16 78 22 129
SP 3 10 36 55 5 109
OK 4 11 23 58 8 104
F 2 5 17 61 14 99
PA 2 4 22 64 3 95
EA 2 8 29 49 6 94