2019 IARU HF World Championship K5ZD
Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOABMixed HP QTH: W1 Operating Time (hrs): 16.7 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults 160: 45 1 8 7 80: 164 25 15 25 40: 411 111 24 30 20: 716 483 28 32 15: 321 62 19 24 10: 125 16 9 10 Total: 1782 698 103 128 Total Score = 1,722,336 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
That was fun!
I had a flight to catch Sunday morning so I knew I would miss the last hour of the contest. But, wanted to see if I could collect some good WRTC qualifying points. Figured I would start and then have the option to continue or quit depending on conditions.
Conditions were interesting. Fun to hear the loud Eu HQ stations come in at various times on E-skip on 10 and 15m.
Had dual CQ going for awhile on 15/20 and that really helped the rates and fun factor. When EU got loud on 20 CW, I went to SSB and had a great run. Really needed the points as the first few hours were mostly 1 pointers from zone 8.
Don’t really have enough antenna to do well on 40m. And it was noisy so couldn’t try dual CQ.
Never heard a JA all weekend. Was running a lot so didn’t tune as much as I probably should have.
160m was interesting. Some guys could hear and some could not. I did have a small run which produced a number of multipliers.
Finally decided that sleep would be more beneficial than grinding out the wee hours. From the scoreboard, that may have cost me 200-300 QSOs.
Best motivation was chasing VA2WA on the scoreboard. Almost caught him a few times and then his multiplier would jump. I soon suspected he was probably using the cluster, but it was still fun to chase him and others. Great job by AA3B and W1KM on CW.
Some antenna issues that will need to be diagnosed. The top 15m beam would not turn so was stuck west all weekend. That left me trying to run guys with the low antenna at 33′. The 40m beam continues to be intermittent at the feed point.
Thanks to all for the QSOs.
QSO/ZN+HQ by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 1200Z - - 20/7 107/13 15/10 - 142/30 142/30 1300Z - - - 21/0 64/7 56/8 141/15 283/45 1400Z - - - 49/2 62/4 13/2 124/8 407/53 1500Z - - - 114/3 69/3 - 183/6 590/59 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 150/13 22/3 --+-- 172/16 762/75 1700Z - - - 84/4 18/1 - 102/5 864/80 1800Z - - - 137/2 23/5 - 160/7 1024/87 1900Z - - - 113/5 - 52/8 165/13 1189/100 2000Z - - - 77/3 63/6 15/0 155/9 1344/109 2100Z - - - 163/2 19/2 - 182/4 1526/113 2200Z - - - 135/3 - 2/1 137/4 1663/117 2300Z - - 63/16 18/2 13/0 3/0 97/18 1760/135 36 0000Z --+-- 26/14 142/9 --+-- --+-- --+-- 168/23 1928/158 0100Z 28/12 9/2 93/9 - - - 130/23 2058/181 0200Z 1/1 82/12 92/6 - - - 175/19 2233/200 0300Z 14/1 64/9 20/2 3/2 - - 101/14 2334/214 0400Z - - 3/0 14/4 - - 17/4 2351/218 45 0500Z 3/1 8/3 66/3 3/1 - - 80/8 2431/226 25 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 2431/226 60 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 2431/226 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2431/226 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2431/226 60 1000Z - - 6/0 11/1 15/2 - 49/5 2480/231 12 1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2480/231 60 Total: 46/15 189/40 522/54 1199/60 383/43 141/19