2020 CQ WW Contest CW K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2020
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 43
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
160: 127 15 48
80: 676 24 81
40: 1617 32 110
20: 1249 34 112
15: 1181 29 108
10: 79 20 40
Total: 4929 154 498 Total Score = 9,245,174
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest ClubComments:
This is always the best contest of the year. It has DX, activity, great ops, and usually some interesting conditions. This year was no exception.
Full SO2R effort with the cluster. Best motivational tool was the contestonlinescore.com online scoreboard. Kept me pushing to keep up all the way through.
Bands were open but not very deep. Worked zone 18 on 40 and 80, but not 20! Few JAs or UA9/0. Nice to see high bands open, although 10m was just marginal. I called a bunch of mults on 10 and 160 without success. Definitely need to work on the 10m stack as I am not sure it is playing very well.
Never heard zones 23, 26, 27, 34, and 39.
Country totals would have been great if not for Covid limiting expedition travels.
Nice to have a beam again on 40m after 2 years of using a dipole. See story at “Fixing my Intermittent 40-2CD”
Always fun to see so many skilled CW ops enjoying themselves. Thanks to all who participated.
Station:
K3 + AL-1200 K3 + AL-1500 Writelog/DigiRite + MK2R+ 160: Shunt fed tower, elevated 1/4-wave GP 80: 4 square, dipole @ 80' 40: 40-2CD @ 110', diople at 60' 20: 205CA @ 100'/50' 15: 155CA @ 66'/33' 10: 6-ele @ 90' South: TH7DXX @ 40'
Rates:
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z --+-- --+-- 111/50 20/29 --+-- --+-- 131/79 131/79 0100Z 10/14 54/25 49/15 2/0 - - 115/54 246/133 0200Z - 68/31 41/6 - - - 109/37 355/170 0300Z - 89/5 46/17 - - - 135/22 490/192 0400Z 25/23 36/2 44/6 - - - 105/31 595/223 0500Z 12/9 37/10 15/2 14/14 - - 78/35 673/258 0600Z 4/3 84/2 18/4 - - - 106/9 779/267 0700Z - 16/9 144/5 - - - 160/14 939/281 0800Z 3/3 4/2 88/9 7/6 --+-- --+-- 102/20 1041/301 0900Z 1/1 6/2 72/5 - - - 79/8 1120/309 1000Z - 4/0 4/2 21/13 - - 29/15 1149/324 16 1100Z - - 6/1 137/15 - - 143/16 1292/340 1200Z - - 1/2 194/8 21/22 - 216/32 1508/372 1300Z - - - 83/9 123/21 - 206/30 1714/402 1400Z - - - 6/5 179/8 15/21 200/34 1914/436 1500Z - - - 52/7 104/29 - 156/36 2070/472 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 123/3 18/10 6/2 147/15 2217/487 1700Z - - - 106/6 12/8 - 118/14 2335/501 1800Z - - - 11/4 15/10 21/7 47/21 2382/522 11 1900Z - - 14/0 5/4 11/7 7/5 37/16 2419/538 10 2000Z - - 46/2 4/4 - 2/2 52/8 2471/546 15 2100Z - - 145/0 4/3 - - 149/3 2620/549 2200Z - 1/2 100/0 9/2 - - 110/4 2730/553 2300Z 16/3 - 54/0 10/2 - - 80/5 2810/558 0000Z 1/0 21/3 49/4 --+-- --+-- --+-- 71/7 2881/565 0100Z 32/4 6/5 26/2 - - - 64/11 2945/576 0200Z 1/0 79/4 4/2 - - - 84/6 3029/582 0300Z 6/2 3/1 1/1 - - - 10/4 3039/586 40 0400Z 1/1 17/2 51/0 - - - 69/3 3108/589 0500Z 11/0 6/0 64/0 - - - 81/0 3189/589 0600Z 2/0 77/0 11/1 - - - 90/1 3279/590 0700Z - 52/0 23/0 - - - 75/0 3354/590 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 3354/590 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 3354/590 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 3354/590 60 1100Z 1/0 1/0 6/0 101/0 - - 109/0 3463/590 1200Z - - - 121/2 49/7 - 170/9 3633/599 1300Z - - - 1/2 174/7 2/4 177/13 3810/612 1400Z - - - - 166/0 6/6 172/6 3982/618 1500Z - - - 35/1 106/0 4/5 145/6 4127/624 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 136/0 11/6 147/6 4274/630 1700Z - - - 86/1 41/2 2/0 129/3 4403/633 1800Z - - - 72/2 14/0 2/0 88/2 4491/635 1900Z - - - 15/2 5/3 1/2 21/7 4512/642 27 2000Z - - 104/1 4/0 2/1 - 110/2 4622/644 14 2100Z - - 105/1 2/0 5/2 - 112/3 4734/647 2200Z - 5/0 97/3 4/2 - - 106/5 4840/652 2300Z 1/0 10/0 78/1 - - - 89/1 4929/653 Total 127/63 676/105 1617/142 1249/146 1181/137 79/60
Best 60 mins: 220 starting 28-Nov-2020 11:54
Worked on 6 bands (11):
5T3WW CR3DX CR3W CR6K FY5KE KP3DX LZ9W P40W TI7W V31MA ZF1A
Worked on 5 bands (23)
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M TotalDL 5 125 261 199 195 785I 5 17 122 75 94 1 314G 6 30 69 61 89 1 256F 2 38 72 46 73 1 232UA 2 23 72 101 32 230SP 4 31 89 51 53 228OK 2 33 77 45 47 204EA 2 15 71 56 53 2 199UR 2 13 71 57 29 172PA 2 19 49 36 55 161VE 26 44 37 20 15 2 144S5 2 24 43 29 23 121K 17 21 44 27 9 2 120HA 1 20 45 33 20 119