2021 CQ WPX SSB Contest AK1W (K5ZD)
CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2021
Call: AK1W
Operator(s): K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 17
Summary:
Band QSOs
160: 16
80: 317
40: 362
20: 1157
15: 102
10: 9
Total: 1963 Prefixes = 981 Total Score = 5,325,849
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest ClubComments:
After a year of hyper contest activity due to pandemic boredom, I think I finally hit burnout. Just couldn’t see myself pushing through a weekend of splatter. Did a part time effort and really enjoyed myself. Single radio effort with the cluster.
First day was almost all 20m. Low bands seemed noisy and Europeans were not hearing well.
Second night was better. Even worked some Europe on 160. SP7VC had a booming signal.
Sunday morning on 20m was more fun. I could see from spots that there was a lot of Eu activity on 15 and 10 so there seemed to be less crowding on 20. The Russians were coming through very well.
Big surprise was the last 2.5 hours of the contest. Loud Eu and JA were coming in at the same time on 20. The Asia opening was deep with multiple HL, DU and BY also calling in. That never happens for me! Then went to 40 and had a very wild last hour with calls from USA and EU. Worked over 100 multipliers in those final hours.
Thanks for everyone who got on. Sounded like a lot of people were having fun.
Station
K3 + AL-1200 160m: 1/4-wave GP, shunt fed tower 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
Rates
QSO/Pref by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z - - - - - - 0/0 0/0 60 0100Z - - 61/52 8/7 - - 69/59 69/59 22 0200Z 6/6 117/69 12/9 - - - 135/84 204/143 0300Z - 72/42 - - - - 72/42 276/185 22 0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 276/185 60 0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 276/185 60 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 276/185 60 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 276/185 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 276/185 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 276/185 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 276/185 60 1100Z - - 16/10 80/69 - - 96/79 372/264 19 1200Z - - - 173/107 - - 173/107 545/371 1300Z - - - 102/69 14/10 - 116/79 661/450 1400Z - - - - 9/6 - 9/6 670/456 54 1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 670/456 60 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 670/456 60 1700Z - - - 86/47 10/8 - 96/55 766/511 3 1800Z - - - 13/5 16/11 9/6 38/22 804/533 28 1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 804/533 60 2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 804/533 60 2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 804/533 60 2200Z - - - 63/38 10/3 - 73/41 877/574 22 2300Z - - - 35/16 - - 35/16 912/590 40 0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 912/590 60 0100Z - - 32/15 1/0 - - 33/15 945/605 39 0200Z - 67/20 28/9 - - - 95/29 1040/634 0300Z 4/0 61/19 22/9 - - - 87/28 1127/662 0400Z 6/1 - 16/4 - - - 22/5 1149/667 37 0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 1149/667 60 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 1149/667 60 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1149/667 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1149/667 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1149/667 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1149/667 60 1100Z - - 5/1 106/49 - - 111/50 1260/717 10 1200Z - - - 149/65 - - 149/65 1409/782 1300Z - - - 81/33 - - 81/33 1490/815 8 1400Z - - - - - - 0/0 1490/815 60 1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 1490/815 60 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 42/17 22/9 --+-- 64/26 1554/841 6 1700Z - - - 51/17 10/5 - 61/22 1615/863 13 1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 1615/863 60 1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1615/863 60 2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1615/863 60 2100Z - - - 53/24 - - 53/24 1668/887 33 2200Z - - 1/1 114/46 11/5 - 126/52 1794/939 2300Z - - 169/42 - - - 169/42 1963/981 Total: 16/7 317/150 362/152 1157/609 102/57 9/6