2019 CQ WW SSB Contest V47T (K5ZD)
Call: V47T Operator(s): K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Operating Time (hrs): 44 Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries 160: 51 13 33 80: 525 17 67 40: 1930 28 100 20: 2501 27 99 15: 3156 27 104 10: 126 16 45 Total: 8389 128 448 Total Score 11,604,672 Club: None
Comments
Doing a competitive SOAB in CQWW SSB has been a dream of mine. Amazingly lucky to go from a seat request on the cq-contest reflector a few weeks ago to fulfilling that dream from V47T.
The original plan was to do MS with NP4Z, but Felipe ran into some work conflicts and offered me the chance to do a single op. N2NT and NP4Z had planned a trip to do station repairs. I felt like a rock star when they picked me up at the airport and helped get everything set up for the contest! It was lonely when they left for home on Wed. Gave me some time to enjoy the beach and drive around the island.
The station is on a hilltop at about 1000 feet ASL. It is a steep drop toward Europe down to the ocean about a mile away. Not bad to USA either. It requires an AWD vehicle to reach the station.
There a million stories and comments I could report but will have to wait for another day. Still in recovery mode.
Slept 3 hours Sun morning. Rates were getting slow and I knew I would need it to push through another day of QSO making on the high bands.
Was completely isolated in a concrete bunker for the weekend with a single window to see if it was daylight or dark. For 48+ hours I did not think about anything except where the next QSO was coming from.
A bit disappointed with the mults, but conditions just weren’t open very deep. So went with a run at all times strategy. Never heard zones 19, 23, 24, 29, or 34.
Hilltops on islands in the Caribbean rock.
Amazing all the activity that shows up on the bands during CQWW. Thank you all for making it the best radio weekend of the year. And again, thanks to N2NT and NP4Z for use of the station and V44KAI for local support.
View to Europe 
Operating position 
Tired op at end of contest
Some numbers…
QSOs by Continent/Band
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
NA 130 404 1179 1665 1572 42 4992 59.5
SA 4 14 42 33 41 26 160 1.9
EU 15 96 647 740 1480 45 3023 36.0
AF 1 6 10 9 18 11 55 0.7
AS 0 2 27 48 30 2 109 1.3
OC 0 3 25 6 14 0 48 0.6
QSOs/mults per hour
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band UTC 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z --+-- --+-- 226/25 --+-- --+-- --+-- 226/25 226/25 0100Z - - 232/5 - - - 232/5 458/30 0200Z - 12/14 183/39 - - - 195/53 653/83 0300Z 11/6 183/39 9/2 - - - 203/47 856/130 0400Z 33/13 4/2 114/8 - - - 151/23 1007/153 0500Z 3/1 101/9 44/4 - - - 148/14 1155/167 0600Z 24/7 16/2 98/8 - - - 138/17 1293/184 0700Z - 33/4 64/10 - - - 97/14 1390/198 0800Z 1/1 31/9 18/3 1/2 --+-- --+-- 51/15 1441/213 0900Z 1/1 7/0 53/3 6/7 - - 67/11 1508/224 1000Z - - - 231/48 - - 231/48 1739/272 1100Z - - - 185/20 44/27 - 229/47 1968/319 1200Z - - - - 212/28 1/2 213/30 2181/349 1300Z - - - - 194/12 1/2 195/14 2376/363 1400Z - - - - 194/14 5/9 199/23 2575/386 1500Z - - - - 186/1 51/20 237/21 2812/407 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 284/11 11/9 295/20 3107/427 1700Z - - - 216/3 16/0 - 232/3 3339/430 1800Z - - - 253/6 - 3/3 256/9 3595/439 1900Z - - - 12/0 219/5 24/5 255/10 3850/449 2000Z - - - 27/1 223/2 4/0 254/3 4104/452 2100Z - - - 282/7 - - 282/7 4386/459 2200Z - - - 246/2 3/1 - 249/3 4635/462 2300Z - - 81/6 62/11 6/1 - 149/18 4784/480 0000Z --+-- 20/0 69/6 --+-- --+-- --+-- 89/6 4873/486 0100Z - 24/0 181/0 - - - 205/0 5078/486 0200Z - - 219/3 - - - 219/3 5297/489 0300Z 3/0 88/4 24/1 - - - 115/5 5412/494 0400Z 75/17 4/1 3/0 - - - 82/18 5494/512 0500Z - 1/0 92/4 5/1 - - 98/5 5592/517 0600Z - - - 3/1 - - 3/1 5595/518 55 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 5595/518 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 5595/518 60 0900Z - - 47/0 1/0 - - 48/0 5643/518 39 1000Z - - 2/0 171/2 - - 173/2 5816/520 1100Z - - - 54/0 148/2 1/1 203/3 6019/523 1200Z - - - - 195/8 2/0 197/8 6216/531 1300Z - - - - 198/4 - 198/4 6414/535 1400Z - - - - 208/3 - 208/3 6622/538 1500Z - - - 1/0 239/2 - 240/2 6862/540 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 101/4 21/10 122/14 6984/554 1700Z - - - - 291/3 - 291/3 7275/557 1800Z - - - 80/5 95/0 - 175/5 7450/562 1900Z - - - 238/6 - - 238/6 7688/568 2000Z - - - 132/0 89/1 1/0 222/1 7910/569 2100Z - - - 186/0 11/2 - 197/2 8107/571 2200Z - - 21/0 109/4 - 1/0 131/4 8238/575 2300Z - - 150/1 - - - 150/1 8388/576 Total: 151/46 524/84 1930/128 2501/126 3156/131 126/61
Best 60 mins: 336 starting @ 26-Oct-2019 15:32
Six banders:
8P5A D4C FY5KE K1TTT K3LR KC1XX KP2M N4WW PZ5K
V49V VE3EJ W3LPL
Worked 3084 stations only once! Total of 5565 different calls.
Top 10 countries worked:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
K 101 344 1078 1537 1431 25 4516
DL 1 11 89 95 243 439
I 1 6 70 87 205 14 383
VE 11 32 75 99 112 2 331
G 3 40 57 132 232
EA 1 6 46 37 113 11 214
F 1 2 43 39 98 2 185
UA 1 11 39 73 47 171
PA 3 23 37 61 124
SP 6 37 22 56 121
Postscript:
It’s official. The results are out and this is the world high score for single operator all bands high power. Wow! I am thrilled.
It was a very close race with 8P5A and P40T.
V47T (K5ZD) 11,296,260 8P5A (W2SC) 11,154,330 P40T (VE3DZ) 10,229,901
Breakdowns:
160m 75m 40m 20m 15m 10m V47T 150/12/33 520/16/66 1942/28/100 2477/26/98 3171/25/105 125/16/45 8P5A 107/10/24 673/18/78 1972/27/104 2547/24/99 2305/25/106 510/20/58 P40T 25/ 9/19 501/21/77 1585/27/107 1636/26/106 2162/26/104 225/19/42