2021 CQ WW Contest SSB K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB - 2021 Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SO(A)AB HP QTH: MA Operating Time (hrs): 31 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 63 9 31 80: 240 14 61 40: 305 21 75 20: 1574 35 109 15: 1171 31 102 10: 493 18 75 ------------------------------ Total: 3846 128 453 Total Score = 6,415,983 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
True classic entry. One radio and no DX spots. Classic overlay score around 5M.
What happened to the predicted solar storm? Seemed like conditions were good and just kept getting better! The climax was having 10m bust wide open Sunday morning.
Was focused on optimizing my Classic score so not the best strategy for optimizing the traditional category score. Took time off on Friday night plus some sleep. Then almost no operating on Sat night. Once I got the 24 hours in I was running for fun or being a DXer.
Doing a contest with only one radio definitely limits your awareness of what is happening on other bands. Have to rely a lot more on intuition and the “sound” of the band to know when it is time to move.
Fun watching the scoreboard. Had to look at the assisted guys because there weren’t many SO that were posting.
Thanks to all for the QSOs. And special thanks to all those who traveled to activate more DX for the rest of us.
Recording
Audio recordings of the full operation are available here.
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′
Rates
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z --+-- --+-- 47/33 42/36 --+-- --+-- 89/69 89/69 0100Z 2/4 45/34 19/7 - - - 66/45 155/114 0200Z - 30/8 - 7/2 - - 37/10 192/124 37 0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 192/124 60 0400Z 11/14 70/14 - - - - 81/28 273/152 4 0500Z 10/6 24/3 27/15 - - - 61/24 334/176 0600Z 1/0 19/5 36/17 - - - 56/22 390/198 0700Z 1/1 - 5/2 - - - 6/3 396/201 54 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 396/201 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 396/201 60 1000Z - 3/3 19/9 47/21 - - 69/33 465/234 6 1100Z - - - 231/12 - - 231/12 696/246 1200Z - - - 34/3 164/43 - 198/46 894/292 1300Z - - - - 209/11 - 209/11 1103/303 1400Z - - - - 206/7 - 206/7 1309/310 1500Z - - - 55/3 65/5 8/8 128/16 1437/326 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 183/5 --+-- --+-- 183/5 1620/331 1700Z - - - 56/3 - - 56/3 1676/334 1800Z - - - - 31/20 26/12 57/32 1733/366 60 1900Z - - - 104/5 24/14 - 128/19 1861/385 2000Z - - - 160/8 - 10/1 170/9 2031/394 2100Z - - - 69/3 18/6 19/11 106/20 2137/414 2200Z - - 51/6 38/19 - - 89/25 2226/439 2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2226/439 60 0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2226/439 60 0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2226/439 60 0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2226/439 60 0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2226/439 60 0400Z 12/7 - - 8/5 - - 20/12 2246/451 35 0500Z 2/1 42/5 15/2 - - - 59/8 2305/459 0600Z 22/5 - 19/2 - - - 41/7 2346/466 35 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 2346/466 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2346/466 60 0900Z 1/1 1/1 2/1 2/1 - - 6/4 2352/470 47 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 2352/470 60 1100Z - - - 141/3 4/0 2/1 147/4 2499/474 5 1200Z - - - - 176/4 - 176/4 2675/478 1300Z - - - - 108/1 44/28 152/29 2827/507 1400Z - - - - - 151/23 151/23 2978/530 1500Z - - - - - 199/7 199/7 3177/537 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 3/0 3/0 3180/537 15 1700Z - - - - 78/6 14/0 92/6 3272/543 60 1800Z - - - 112/2 14/3 - 126/5 3398/548 1900Z - - - 162/5 - - 162/5 3560/553 2000Z - - - 89/3 - 11/2 100/5 3660/558 2100Z - - - 7/2 55/13 6/0 68/15 3728/573 2200Z - 1/1 64/2 5/1 - - 70/4 3798/577 2300Z 1/1 5/1 1/0 22/2 19/0 - 48/4 3846/581 Total: 63/40 240/75 305/96 1574/144 1171/133 493/93
Best 60 mins: 232 QSOs from 30-Oct-2021 11:00 to 30-Oct-2021 12:00
Worked on 6 bands:
CQ8M CR6K DP7D E7DX ED7R EW5A IR6T LN8W M6T OT5A P40W PJ2T PJ4K TM1O TM3R TM6M
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 8 23 27 212 127 70 467
G 5 13 8 134 120 48 328
I 1 12 35 128 93 48 317
F 4 19 13 87 56 34 213
EA 3 15 13 76 61 34 202
PA 2 6 7 85 48 27 175
SP 1 13 12 69 42 10 147
UA 0 4 5 58 55 1 123