2022 ARRL DX Contest SSB K5ZD
ARRL DX Contest, SSB - 2022 Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOUAB HP QTH: MA Operating Time (hrs): 29.4 OpMode: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 38 27 80: 185 58 40: 271 80 20: 1084 113 15: 932 103 10: 151 49 ------------------- Total: 2661 430 Total Score = 3,432,690 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
A few quick observations.
Activity seemed to be way down the first day. Especially from Europe. A bit better on Sunday.
Sunday morning was strange. I had a long stretch on 20m where there were no signals in my passband. Lots of unanswered CQs followed by loud Europeans calling in.
Could not get a frequency on 15 meters Sunday morning. Even when I got one I wasn’t getting answers. Kept having to go back to 20m.
Felt like I was 100 miles too far north all weekend. The guys down south were first through all the pileups. Even on the low bands.
So many South American stations on 10m! Great to see.
Operated more than I meant to. Mixed with the poor conditions were some really interesting openings.
I did record the contest and have posted the log and audio files on my website.
Station
K3 + AL-1200
K3 + AL-1500
160m: 1/4-wave GP, shunt fed tower
80m: 4 square, dipole
40m: 40-2CD @110′
20m: 205CA @100′/50′
15m: 155ca @66′/33′
10m: 6-el @ 90’
South: Th7DXX @ 40′
WriteLog software, MK2R+ SO2R box
Rates
QSO/DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z --+-- 14/12 7/7 23/15 1/1 --+-- 45/35 45/35 25 0100Z 3/3 26/13 31/16 30/10 - - 90/42 135/77 0200Z 4/4 3/2 30/18 11/3 - - 48/27 183/104 15 0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 183/104 60 0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 183/104 60 0500Z 3/3 28/6 8/6 7/3 - - 46/18 229/122 23 0600Z 6/6 11/5 63/15 3/1 - - 83/27 312/149 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 312/149 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 312/149 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 312/149 60 1000Z 2/2 4/3 8/4 55/22 - - 69/31 381/180 9 1100Z - - 1/1 162/13 - - 163/14 544/194 1200Z - - - 105/9 31/23 - 136/32 680/226 1300Z - - - 11/1 119/32 5/3 135/36 815/262 1400Z - - - - 145/15 21/8 166/23 981/285 1500Z - - - - - 3/2 3/2 984/287 58 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 5/0 9/6 14/6 998/293 52 1700Z - - - - 123/3 31/16 154/19 1152/312 1800Z - - - 51/2 66/3 6/3 123/8 1275/320 1900Z - - - 88/8 15/6 9/0 112/14 1387/334 2000Z - - - 1/1 2/1 4/0 7/2 1394/336 41 2100Z - - - 3/3 6/3 - 9/6 1403/342 43 2200Z - - - 28/1 15/1 11/4 54/6 1457/348 8 2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 1457/348 60 0000Z --+-- 2/1 --+-- 10/1 --+-- --+-- 12/2 1469/350 43 0100Z 1/1 5/1 6/1 3/2 - - 15/5 1484/355 37 0200Z - 4/1 4/0 - - - 8/1 1492/356 51 0300Z 8/3 4/0 9/2 - - - 21/5 1513/361 0400Z 4/3 27/7 6/3 - - - 37/13 1550/374 0500Z 4/1 40/6 2/0 - - - 46/7 1596/381 0600Z 2/0 8/0 - - - - 10/0 1606/381 46 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1606/381 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1606/381 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1606/381 60 1000Z 1/1 3/1 3/0 51/1 - - 58/3 1664/384 26 1100Z - - 3/0 104/5 - - 107/5 1771/389 1200Z - - - 120/3 7/0 - 127/3 1898/392 1300Z - - - 53/1 23/2 1/1 77/4 1975/396 1400Z - - - 45/2 36/4 - 81/6 2056/402 1500Z - - - 17/0 21/0 12/1 50/1 2106/403 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 151/1 8/3 159/4 2265/407 1700Z - - - - 106/4 1/0 107/4 2372/411 1800Z - - - 14/0 9/1 7/1 30/2 2402/413 29 1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2402/413 60 2000Z - - - 58/2 9/1 7/1 74/4 2476/417 10 2100Z - - - 17/4 21/1 15/0 53/5 2529/422 2200Z - - 84/6 1/0 2/0 1/0 88/6 2617/428 2300Z - 6/0 6/1 13/0 19/1 - 44/2 2661/430 Total: 38/27 185/58 271/80 1084/113 932/103 151/49
Best 60 minutes: 202 @ 05-Mar-2022 13:32
Worked on 6 bands (16):
CQ8M ED5R ED7W ED8W FY5KE HI3T IB8A PJ2T PJ4G TI7W TM6M TO3Z V26K VP5M ZF1A ZF5T
Worked on 5 bands: 25
Most Worked Countries
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
I 3 15 28 133 129 8 316
DL 1 21 25 108 128 1 284
F 4 15 17 63 73 3 175
G 2 10 14 62 70 158
EA 3 8 16 59 57 3 146
PA 5 8 88 43 144
PY 2 10 37 33 45 127
SP 1 14 12 40 25 92