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.

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