2020 WAE DX Contest RTTY K5ZD
WAE DX Contest, RTTY - 2020 Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Class: Single Op HP QTH: W1 Operating Time (hrs): 21 Summary: Band QSOs QTCs Mults 80: 212 184 184 40: 412 589 231 20: 302 555 166 15: 265 515 130 10: 5 0 6 Total: 1196 1709 717 Total Score = 2,082,885 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
This was a very entertaining contest! I forgot the contest started Friday evening so missed the first few hours. Was just going to play around, but found the low bands to be very good. Then 15m was very good Sat morning. Started watching the scoreboard and found myself returning to the radio to work more stations and receive more QTCs!
I thought 15m was not open very well on Sunday. I even saw several spots and could not hear them. Then realized the 15m beam was still pointing west. Argh! It was great to see 10m open on Sunday afternoon. Would have missed that completely if not for the cluster.
I tried to receive QTCs as much as possible since I only have the opportunity to send them for CW and SSB. Some QTCs come through perfectly and others get messed up for one QTC and seem to take several more before clear copy resumes. The low bands were so good I was able to exchange QTC with Europe on 40 and 80.
Only used one radio. Didn’t feel like warming up the room with the second amp. And with QTC activity, plus use of the cluster, didn’t feel like I needed it that much.
JH4UYB was very loud on 40m Sunday morning at sunrise. He was the only JA I heard on 40. VK3JA had a great signal on 40m LP on Sunday evening.
Excellent activity from Germany and other Western EU. Worked very few UA/UA9 stations.
Not sure the scoring is correct. Writelog seemed to count 11 QTC for every 10 received. Otherwise, it worked perfectly.
Thanks to everyone who made the weekend so much fun.
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′
Rates
QSO/DXCC by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z - - - - - 0/0 0/0 60 D1-0100Z - - - - - 0/0 0/0 60 D1-0200Z - - - - - 0/0 0/0 60 D1-0300Z 65/92 - - - - 65/92 65/92 13 D1-0400Z 21/12 36/60 - - - 57/72 122/164 D1-0500Z - 60/33 - - - 60/33 182/197 D1-0600Z 22/20 24/21 - - - 46/41 228/238 D1-0700Z 4/8 38/15 - - - 42/23 270/261 4 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 270/261 60 D1-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 270/261 60 D1-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 270/261 60 D1-1100Z - - - - - 0/0 270/261 60 D1-1200Z - - - - - 0/0 270/261 60 D1-1300Z - - - - - 0/0 270/261 60 D1-1400Z - - - 44/28 - 44/28 314/289 16 D1-1500Z - - - 37/18 - 37/18 351/307 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- 55/36 21/4 --+-- 76/40 427/347 D1-1700Z - - 51/38 - - 51/38 478/385 D1-1800Z - - 24/8 - - 24/8 502/393 16 D1-1900Z - - 23/12 4/8 - 27/20 529/413 60 D1-2000Z - 45/18 4/4 11/12 - 60/34 589/447 D1-2100Z - 6/0 - - - 6/0 595/447 48 D1-2200Z - - - - - 0/0 595/447 60 D1-2300Z - - - - - 0/0 595/447 60 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 595/447 60 D2-0100Z - 14/15 - - - 14/15 609/462 42 D2-0200Z 24/20 4/9 - - - 28/29 637/491 24 D2-0300Z - - - - - 0/0 637/491 60 D2-0400Z - - - - - 0/0 637/491 60 D2-0500Z - 1/0 - - - 1/0 638/491 56 D2-0600Z 23/12 34/21 - - - 57/33 695/524 D2-0700Z 16/8 30/6 - - - 46/14 741/538 D2-0800Z 1/0 14/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 15/3 756/541 37 D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 756/541 60 D2-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 756/541 60 D2-1100Z - 3/3 8/6 - - 11/9 767/550 48 D2-1200Z - - 46/24 8/6 - 54/30 821/580 D2-1300Z - - 18/2 38/22 - 56/24 877/604 D2-1400Z - - 18/6 36/14 - 54/20 931/624 D2-1500Z - - 23/6 45/8 - 68/14 999/638 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 1/2 14/2 --+-- 15/4 1014/642 40 D2-1700Z - - - - - 0/0 1014/642 60 D2-1800Z - - - - - 0/0 1014/642 60 D2-1900Z - 13/9 2/4 6/6 1/2 22/21 1036/663 25 D2-2000Z - 22/6 9/4 1/2 4/4 36/16 1072/679 2 D2-2100Z 1/0 13/0 14/12 - - 28/12 1100/691 60 D2-2200Z 9/0 34/9 6/2 - - 49/11 1149/702 D2-2300Z 26/12 21/3 - - - 47/15 1196/717 Total: 212/184 412/231 302/166 265/130 5/6
Best 60 mins: 80 @ 14-Nov-2020 03:14
Worked on 4 bands (28):
9A7T DA0BCC DC6O DF4XG DG0OKW DJ8VH DK2OY DK7HA DL3ABL DL7VOG DL7YS DQ9Y DR6K F8CRS GW0A HG1G IK2TDM IQ8XF IV3HAX KO7SS MM9I OK1KSL OK4GP OM5M ON6NL UY5VA V31MA WT9U
Most worked countries:
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 75 99 67 98 339
K 61 81 52 13 207
I 5 30 29 30 94
PA 1 20 15 11 47
SP 2 17 8 7 34
VE 11 10 7 4 32
UR 5 14 4 4 27
F 6 8 4 8 26
EA 2 8 9 6 25