2020 CQ WW SSB K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB - 2020
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
Operating Time (hrs): 34
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
160: 54 9 24
80: 318 13 57
40: 355 21 71
20: 1671 29 104
15: 1409 25 98
10: 172 11 36
Total: 3979 108 390 Total Score = 5,609,472
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Conditions were so bad 28 days earlier for CQ WW RTTY, I did not have high expectations for this one. Wow, was I wrong. Conditions exceeded my wildest hopes.
Operated in Classic mode for the whole contest. One radio. No cluster.
Since I was focused on a Classic entry I took 2 hours off to watch a movie Friday night. When the rates exploded on Sunday morning, I went from #50 on the scoreboard to closing in on the top ten. That changed my attitude and I shifted from managing off times to trying to make the best score.
The contest was obviously different with fewer multi-ops and no expeditions. It was a bit easier to find a frequency on 20 and 40. (Just a little, those bands were still crowded!) But, it really hurt the multiplier. Decided I would just focus on QSOs. Was still fun to have to make operating decisions about when to run and when to tune for mults – the way contesting was before the cluster connected everyone to everything. Missed some mults as a result, but figured if I could keep close the assisted guys on the scoreboard I would be ok.
The rates on Sat morning were amazing. It matched what I did from the Caribbean last year. Thanks to all the Italians, Germans, and Netherlanders that filled the log. Not many Russians or JAs as the band just didn’t open that deep.
Was running so much I didn’t even check 10m on Sat morning. I did happen to go there on Sun morning and was amazed to find some Eu signals. VO1CH was pinning the s-meter so it must have been sporadic E. It sure sounded like a VHF contest for awhile with lots of QSB and spotlight openings. Sure helped the score and was fun to run without splatter.
Managed to get a frequency around 7132 during the last 30 minutes of the contest. It produced a bunch of new multipliers. Why does no one listen split on 40m any more?
CQ WW is always amazing and fun. Thanks to everyone who helped fill the bands with excitement.
Station
Elecraft K3 + Ameritron AL-1200
80M: 4 square, dipole
40M: 40-2CD @ 110′
20M: 205CA @ 100’/50′
15M: 155CA @ 66’/33′
10M: 6-el @ 90′
10-20m South: TH7DXX @40′
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z 1/2 25/20 40/32 9/13 --+-- --+-- 75/67 75/67 0100Z 6/6 27/9 8/1 19/5 - - 60/21 135/88 0200Z - 5/2 - - - - 5/2 140/90 55 0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 140/90 60 0400Z 11/8 4/2 77/20 - - - 92/30 232/120 1 0500Z 15/9 35/12 25/5 - - - 75/26 307/146 0600Z 8/3 61/5 - - - - 69/8 376/154 0700Z - 7/2 27/12 40/25 - - 74/39 450/193 0800Z 1/1 2/0 54/6 17/6 --+-- --+-- 74/13 524/206 13 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 524/206 60 1000Z 2/1 1/2 3/0 1/0 - - 7/3 531/209 49 1100Z - - 5/0 159/17 5/7 - 169/24 700/233 1200Z - - - 155/5 38/15 - 193/20 893/253 1300Z - - - - 225/19 - 225/19 1118/272 1400Z - - - - 212/11 - 212/11 1330/283 1500Z - - - - 224/11 - 224/11 1554/294 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 85/20 12/8 97/28 1651/322 1700Z - - - 104/5 32/1 6/0 142/6 1793/328 1800Z - - - 186/4 - - 186/4 1979/332 1900Z - - - 86/11 30/5 3/0 119/16 2098/348 2000Z - - - 133/9 - - 133/9 2231/357 2100Z - - - 145/4 5/3 - 150/7 2381/364 2200Z - - 13/0 16/4 4/5 - 33/9 2414/373 21 2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2414/373 60 0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2414/373 60 0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2414/373 60 0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2414/373 60 0300Z 5/2 20/5 14/4 - - - 39/11 2453/384 3 0400Z - - 6/1 - - - 6/1 2459/385 1 0500Z 2/1 81/5 - - - - 83/6 2542/391 60 0600Z - 47/5 10/2 - - - 57/7 2599/398 0700Z - 1/0 - - - - 1/0 2600/398 58 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2600/398 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2600/398 60 1000Z 3/0 2/1 - - - - 5/1 2605/399 52 1100Z - - 2/0 130/6 - - 132/6 2737/405 1200Z - - - 36/0 97/8 - 133/8 2870/413 1300Z - - - - 177/9 - 177/9 3047/422 1400Z - - - - 14/1 99/24 113/25 3160/447 1500Z - - - - 131/2 4/1 135/3 3295/450 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 104/4 1/0 8/2 113/6 3408/456 1700Z - - - 21/1 56/1 7/6 84/8 3492/464 1800Z - - - - 13/1 25/4 38/5 3530/469 25 1900Z - - - 12/0 39/4 5/2 56/6 3586/475 2000Z - - - 134/2 - - 134/2 3720/477 2100Z - - - 94/3 10/0 3/0 107/3 3827/480 2200Z - - - 59/7 7/0 - 66/7 3893/487 2300Z - - 71/9 11/2 4/0 - 86/11 3979/498 Total: 54/33 318/70 355/92 1671/133 1409/123 172/47
Best 60 mins: 230 QSOs (24-Oct-2020 13:20 to 24-Oct-2020 14:19)
Worked on 6 bands: TM3R
Worked on 5 bands: CR6K DF0HQ DL0CS DM1A DP7D E7DX EA2W EC2DX EW5A F6KOP G0BNR G6XX GM6NX HG5A HG7T II2S IQ4FA P40W PA9M PI4COM PJ4DX TM5A TM6M VE5MX VO1GRC ZF1A
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 4 36 27 235 237 22 561
EA 3 27 24 104 101 10 269
F 1 28 32 64 82 23 230
G 2 17 20 151 147 8 345
I 25 28 147 169 8 377
K 9 16 33 75 20 3 156
ON 2 11 3 50 40 6 112
PA 1 14 3 69 53 7 147
SP 1 9 9 42 45 1 107
VE 14 26 28 29 19 1 117