2021 ARRL DX Contest SSB K5ZD
ARRL DX Contest, SSB - 2021
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SO Unlimited HP
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
160: 35 25
80: 181 59
40: 297 80
20: 1513 106
15: 143 42
10: 26 3
Total: 2195 315 Total Score = 2,074,275
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest ClubComments
One year ago I was in V4 for this contest. What a year it has been since!
This was a just for fun effort. Started late. Watched some TV. Chased cluster pileups. Only used one radio.
Got on Sat morning and found 20m just opening around 1015z. By 1030 it was off to the races. Three consecutive hours over 200/hour!! Wow.
Started scoreboard watching and it was quite the race between AA3B, K1KI, N3RD, and AA1K. I would go away, see they had pushed ahead, and then I would chase. Provided some motivation to keep plugging away.
Chased spots when I wasn’t trying to run. Missed a few mults I might have gotten if I had the second rig on.
Only a few skew path Europe on 15m. It was not good. That left everyone on 20m shoulder to shoulder.
40m was weird. Never heard it really open until the last 2 hours. But, I did miss the pre-darkness hours on Saturday. I may have been avoiding it because the beam is intermittent on receive. Got really annoying at times. It does improve the longer RF is injected, but takes longer to clear the intermittent on SSB than CW or RTTY. Definitely a project for this summer!
75m and 160m weren’t bad, but there just didn’t seem to be much activity. I.e., lots of unanswered CQs.
In a way, it was nice not having all the big multi-ops. Made it more possible to find a frequency – especially on 20 and 40. We definitely miss the expeditions…
Best DX was VK6APZ on 75m LP Sunday evening. Thanks to K1RX for the spot. Also good to have UA9BA call in on 40m during the last hour for a new mult. Was also cool to have 3 YB and an HS call in on 20m in the morning.
Spent a lot of time in cluster pileups this weekend listening to whatever DX station it was essentially reading (working) the FRC and PVRC rosters while I waited my turn.
Thanks to all the DX stations that got on the air and gave us contacts – even dealing with some gnarly pileups to do so.
Special thanks to VA2WA and contestonlinescore.com for making the game much more fun.
Station
K3 + AL-1200 80m: 4 square, dipole 40m: 40-2CD @110′ 20m: 205CA @100′ 15m: 155ca @66′ 10m: 6-ele @90′ TH7DXX @ 40′ WriteLog software, MK2R+ SO2R box
Rate Sheet
QSO/DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 22/9 6/1 --+-- 28/10 28/10 35 D1-0100Z 2/2 26/20 52/29 3/0 - - 83/51 111/61 D1-0200Z 1/1 14/6 13/6 - - - 28/13 139/74 31 D1-0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 139/74 60 D1-0400Z 8/7 - - - - - 8/7 147/81 52 D1-0500Z 8/5 26/11 4/2 - - - 38/18 185/99 D1-0600Z 3/2 29/4 11/6 - - - 43/12 228/111 18 D1-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 228/111 60 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 228/111 60 D1-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 228/111 60 D1-1000Z - 2/1 3/2 63/16 - - 68/19 296/130 24 D1-1100Z - - - 207/20 - - 207/20 503/150 D1-1200Z - - - 220/14 - - 220/14 723/164 D1-1300Z - - - 221/8 - - 221/8 944/172 D1-1400Z - - - 50/9 20/14 - 70/23 1014/195 D1-1500Z - - - 1/1 2/2 - 3/3 1017/198 56 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 30/0 26/14 3/2 59/16 1076/214 4 D1-1700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1076/214 60 D1-1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 1076/214 60 D1-1900Z - - 17/3 18/5 27/3 - 62/11 1138/225 16 D1-2000Z - - 12/2 27/10 - 6/1 45/13 1183/238 13 D1-2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 1183/238 60 D1-2200Z - - - 16/5 11/2 - 27/7 1210/245 38 D1-2300Z - - 14/2 10/1 5/0 - 29/3 1239/248 35 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 15/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 15/3 1254/251 47 D2-0100Z - 19/1 13/3 2/1 - - 34/5 1288/256 28 D2-0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 1288/256 60 D2-0300Z 3/3 15/6 16/5 - - - 34/14 1322/270 6 D2-0400Z 5/1 20/5 3/1 - - - 28/7 1350/277 D2-0500Z 5/4 3/0 - - - - 8/4 1358/281 35 D2-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 1358/281 60 D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1358/281 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1358/281 60 D2-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1358/281 60 D2-1000Z - - 7/2 23/0 - - 30/2 1388/283 22 D2-1100Z - - - 159/2 - - 159/2 1547/285 D2-1200Z - - - 123/1 - - 123/1 1670/286 D2-1300Z - - - 104/2 - - 104/2 1774/288 D2-1400Z - - - 27/0 4/1 - 31/1 1805/289 34 D2-1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 1805/289 60 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 4/1 3/1 --+-- 7/2 1812/291 53 D2-1700Z - - - 74/0 - - 74/0 1886/291 D2-1800Z - - - 32/0 16/1 16/0 64/1 1950/292 D2-1900Z - - - 9/1 16/2 1/0 26/3 1976/295 D2-2000Z - - 6/1 31/0 7/1 - 44/2 2020/297 8 D2-2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2020/297 60 D2-2200Z - 1/1 51/6 28/0 - - 80/7 2100/304 10 D2-2300Z - 26/4 60/7 9/0 - - 95/11 2195/315 Total: 35/25 181/59 297/80 1513/106 143/42 26/3
Best 60 mins: 228 @ 06-Mar-2021 11:41
Worked on 6 bands: NONE!
Worked on 5 bands: CQ8M ED8W FM5BH HH2AA II9P IR6T J68HZ NP4DX PJ2T V31MA WP3R ZF1A ZF5T ZW5B
Most worked countries
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total I 3 11 35 215 3 267 DL 1 26 22 134 183 G 1 6 14 133 154 F 13 16 91 120 PY 3 12 31 52 20 118 EA 3 8 12 83 1 107 PA 2 7 98 107
Great to see so much activity from South America!