2019 CQ WW Contest CW K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2019
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 40
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
160: 267 17 77
80: 655 27 101
40: 979 34 134
20: 1691 34 146
15: 202 24 87
10: 36 11 25
Total: 3830 147 570 Total Score = 7,769,412
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest ClubComments
I wanted to do the contest, but didn’t do the mental prep work to commit for a full effort. I “quit” for the first time after just 4 hours. But, as always, the contest and online scoreboard sucked me in.
Didn’t hurt that the weather outside was raining and cold. That meant no line noise for most of the contest, but we did have severe rain static on Sunday afternoon. Part of my 40m run during that time was listening on a dipole that was up 30 feet.
Slept 90 mins the first night. Then 3 hours early Sat evening and then another 90 mins before sunrise.
There were no other daytime bands besides 20m so spent most of my time there. Lots of spot chasing on the second radio.
That was surely the best 160m conditions we have ever had for a WW CW. I had some short runs to Eu both nights. Sat night the signal levels were great and there was NO noise. Even the last hour had good signals from Eu. Sure never expected to have a better line score on 160 than on 15!
As good as 80m was at Eu sunrise, what happened to 40m? It was empty even as I worked Europeans on 160 and 80 well past their sunrise.
15 opened very early both mornings, then faded, and then came back as sunset passed the eastern stations. Glad I got most of my mults on Sat, because was not as good on Sun morning.
Never felt loud all weekend. And never had the really big rates, but it was always interesting and entertaining. Had to keep reminding myself not to fall into DXing. Rate is king in this contest!
The list of broken stuff keeps getting longer. No rotatable antenna on 15m. Direction indicator on the tribander is out. Tri-bander showed high SWR on 20m Sunday (never had that before). 20m stack system has a control cable short somewhere. 40m antenna is intermittent on receive due to corrosion at the feedpoint… I should have addressed all this during the nice Summer and Fall weather, but what’s the fun in that?
I did record the contest if anyone wants to hear something.
Thanks to everyone who traveled to give out a multiplier. I have never had anywhere close to 140 countries on a band as a single op – and half the world was out of range due to propagation. Missed zones 23, 24,28 and 34.
Numbers
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z --+-- --+-- 47/54 38/27 --+-- --+-- 85/81 85/81 0100Z - 2/3 126/24 3/3 - - 131/30 216/111 0200Z - 29/28 85/15 - - - 114/43 330/154 0300Z - 49/19 65/3 - - - 114/22 444/176 0400Z - 64/12 22/13 - - - 86/25 530/201 15 0500Z 66/53 6/1 7/3 - - - 79/57 609/258 0600Z 67/4 47/7 6/5 3/3 - - 123/19 732/277 0700Z 16/12 65/13 1/0 - - - 82/25 814/302 0800Z 6/6 11/9 45/9 6/9 --+-- --+-- 68/33 882/335 0900Z - 2/3 9/3 8/7 - - 19/13 901/348 35 1000Z - - 2/0 - - - 2/0 903/348 60 1100Z 1/1 4/0 7/3 98/23 3/6 - 113/33 1016/381 1200Z - - - 186/14 8/13 - 194/27 1210/408 1300Z - - - 175/3 18/18 - 193/21 1403/429 1400Z - - - 165/6 25/19 - 190/25 1593/454 1500Z - - - 128/10 42/8 1/2 171/20 1764/474 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 43/35 22/18 4/8 69/61 1833/535 1700Z - - - 111/2 18/9 4/2 133/13 1966/548 1800Z - - - 64/12 4/5 17/16 85/33 2051/581 1900Z - - - 13/1 3/2 3/3 19/6 2070/587 2000Z - - 111/1 4/4 - 1/1 116/6 2186/593 2100Z - 3/1 138/1 8/3 - - 149/5 2335/598 2200Z - 7/5 48/16 3/0 - - 58/21 2393/619 2300Z 6/2 22/6 9/6 4/0 - - 41/14 2434/633 0000Z 2/1 11/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 13/4 2447/637 47 0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2447/637 60 0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2447/637 60 0300Z 6/3 26/2 1/1 - - - 33/6 2480/643 28 0400Z 3/3 82/7 11/1 - - - 96/11 2576/654 0500Z 24/4 86/2 - - - - 110/6 2686/660 0600Z 39/1 51/3 2/1 - - - 92/5 2778/665 0700Z 19/4 48/1 3/0 - - - 70/5 2848/670 0800Z --+-- 14/0 1/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 15/0 2863/670 43 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2863/670 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 2863/670 60 1100Z - 6/1 13/2 42/2 - - 61/5 2924/675 6 1200Z - - 4/2 90/5 2/1 - 96/8 3020/683 1300Z - - - 124/1 2/0 - 126/1 3146/684 1400Z - - - 113/0 11/3 2/1 126/4 3272/688 1500Z - - - 83/1 22/3 - 105/4 3377/692 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 88/2 3/2 1/2 92/6 3469/698 1700Z - - - 71/2 8/0 - 79/2 3548/700 1800Z - - 3/0 4/1 4/1 1/1 12/3 3560/703 1900Z - - 11/0 7/2 - 2/0 20/2 3580/705 30 2000Z - - 56/3 3/1 3/1 - 62/5 3642/710 2100Z - 1/0 81/0 5/1 4/2 - 91/3 3733/713 2200Z 3/0 12/0 55/2 1/0 - - 71/2 3804/715 2300Z 9/0 7/2 10/0 - - - 26/2 3830/717 15 Total:267/94 655/128 979/168 1691/180 202/111 36/36
Best 60 mins: 208 starting @ 23-Nov-2019 12:45
Worked on 6 bands:
PJ4K VE3EJ 6V7A 8P5A 8R1/AG6UT D4C HI3CC P40W PJ2T PZ5W TI7W V26K V47T
Lots of 5-banders that covered 160-15m.