2022 CQ WW Contest CW K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2022 Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SO(A)AB HP QTH: W1 Operating Time (hrs): 42.2 OpMode: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 88 15 51 80: 504 22 87 40: 1453 32 118 20: 1103 38 127 15: 1115 31 121 10: 759 28 110 ------------------------------ Total: 5022 166 614 Total Score = 11,311,560 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
Another amazing CQWW CW. So much more fun with sunspots and a bonus to have the low bands be so quiet and open.
The 40m stack that I worked so hard on all summer had the top antenna fail a few weeks before the contest. With help from KA1YQC I thought we had it fixed last weekend. Nope. That had me a little down, but it is CQWW so decided to get on and see how it all goes.
Wow. The QSOs just kept coming. Always enjoy the tension between multiplier spots and the need to maintain a run frequency and the rate. Managed to stay focused on rate most of the weekend.
Once again I operated more due to the online scoreboard. Something about seeing how other people are doing that fires me up. I was amazed to see K1AR killing me on mults the first day. At one point he was almost 100 ahead. That became a focus to try and catch him. Finally did that and saw K1ZZ climbing the leader board with an even bigger mult. So started trying to reel him in. Keeps my BIC…
The top antenna of the new 40 stack didn’t work, but the bottom one seemed to play well. When I checked it was always better than the old 40. And the new 10m antenna arrangement was also a big improvement over what I had before. So felt much better about all the work after the contest.
Great start. Took 2 hour sleep the first night so I could be fresh for the rate on Sat morning. It worked as I had 3 hours in a row over 200.
10m was slow to open, but once it did there was rate to be had. I tried to always be running on one band and chasing multiplier spots on the other. Conditions were perfect for trying 2BSIQ, but I just don’t seem to have the skills for that.
I have never felt so weak on 160 as I did the first night. I could hear lots of stations, but they could not hear me. It was much better the second night and I was able to rescue the multiplier total.
Not much from JA the first 24 hours, but better the second day. I did get JA3YBK to copy K5 on 80, but then he disappeared so missed my chanced. Only two JA on 40. 20 had great signals to Asia on Sunday evening and was even able to call some BY stations and have them come back to me! Even worked a bunch of JA on 15m.
I took a lunch break with 4 hours to go and figured there was no chance to make it to 5000 QSOs. Got a nice frequency on 40 and was able to S&P across 10, 15, and 20 to keep filling in missing band slots with the expeditions. My first ever CQ WW from home with over 5k QSOs.
Some of the pileups were a mess. 3B9KW was on 80 at his sunrise and had a great signal. In 10 minutes he managed to make 1 QSO because both EU and NA stations would never stop calling. I know split is not ideal in contests, but this was a time it was necessary. 7Q6M was running split on 10m and was cranking out the QSOs, but he would never announce that he was split. So took some time to figure it out.
Nice to have all the bands open so people could spread out. There were still plenty of people asking QRL? just seconds after I would finish a CQ, but there were also long stretches where it felt like I had the frequency all to myself.
Thanks to everyone around the world who gets on the air and helps make CQWW the best. Special thanks to all the travelers who add to the country total.
Special thanks to W2ID for loaning me a K3S so my K3 could go in for repair. Was quite interesting to see how much “quieter” the K3S was than the K3 due to the improved receiver. Can’t wait to try a K4 sometime.
Station
Station: K3S + AL-1200 K3 + AL-1500 160m: 1/4-wave GP, shunt fed tower 80m: 4-square, dipole 40m: 40-2CD @ 110', 40-2CD @ 70' 20m: 5/5 @ 100'/50' 15m: 5/5 @ 66'/33' 10m: 6-el @ 100', 4/4 @ 60'/30' South: TH7DXX @ 40' WriteLog software + MK2R+
Rates
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z --+-- --+-- 77/36 40/45 --+-- --+-- 117/81 117/81 0100Z - 20/20 115/14 4/1 - - 139/35 256/116 0200Z - 110/21 33/14 - - - 143/35 399/151 0300Z 7/11 68/32 21/9 8/9 - - 104/61 503/212 0400Z 10/7 11/1 44/25 11/10 - - 76/43 579/255 0500Z 3/1 47/6 15/8 2/0 - - 67/15 646/270 0600Z 3/1 61/6 35/1 - - - 99/8 745/278 0700Z 1/0 12/5 98/12 - - - 111/17 856/295 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 1/0 --+-- --+-- 1/0 857/295 58 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 857/295 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 857/295 60 1100Z - - 7/4 114/31 - - 121/35 978/330 5 1200Z - - - 48/9 172/46 - 220/55 1198/385 1300Z - - - - 194/11 31/37 225/48 1423/433 1400Z - - - 5/5 118/7 81/10 204/22 1627/455 1500Z - - - - 15/9 183/16 198/25 1825/480 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 76/11 73/16 149/27 1974/507 1700Z - - - - 68/11 33/15 101/26 2075/533 16 1800Z - - - 82/6 19/23 10/7 111/36 2186/569 6 1900Z - - - 125/7 14/13 4/3 143/23 2329/592 2000Z - - 119/3 8/9 - 5/2 132/14 2461/606 2100Z - - 122/1 - 10/7 1/0 133/8 2594/614 2200Z - - 102/3 10/5 7/2 - 119/10 2713/624 2300Z - 16/7 80/1 13/3 1/2 - 110/13 2823/637 0000Z 18/15 27/1 17/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 62/19 2885/656 0100Z 8/5 8/4 13/5 - - - 29/14 2914/670 15 0200Z 6/7 45/1 3/1 - - - 54/9 2968/679 0300Z - - - 1/0 - - 1/0 2969/679 60 0400Z 9/8 14/0 - 3/0 - - 26/8 2995/687 35 0500Z 6/1 34/0 54/4 - - - 94/5 3089/692 0600Z 9/4 - 102/0 8/3 - - 119/7 3208/699 0700Z 6/6 12/0 81/0 - - - 99/6 3307/705 0800Z --+-- 2/2 17/3 25/4 --+-- --+-- 44/9 3351/714 17 0900Z - - 16/0 4/1 - - 20/1 3371/715 19 1000Z 1/0 2/2 7/0 1/0 - - 11/2 3382/717 53 1100Z 1/0 - - 122/1 4/3 - 127/4 3509/721 1200Z - - - 75/3 95/0 6/5 176/8 3685/729 1300Z - - - - 107/2 89/4 196/6 3881/735 1400Z - - - - 1/0 160/7 161/7 4042/742 1500Z - - - 4/1 103/3 42/6 149/10 4191/752 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 74/4 55/1 7/1 136/6 4327/758 1700Z - - - 146/2 9/0 1/0 156/2 4483/760 1800Z - - - 94/2 11/1 5/2 110/5 4593/765 1900Z - - - 37/0 - 17/4 54/4 4647/769 27 2000Z - - 91/0 4/1 - 3/2 98/3 4745/772 2100Z - - 84/0 - 7/0 8/1 99/1 4844/773 2200Z - 2/1 65/2 3/0 29/0 - 99/3 4943/776 2300Z - 13/0 35/1 31/3 - - 79/4 5022/780 Total: 88/66 504/109 1453/150 1103/165 1115/152 759/138
Best 60 minutes: 232 26-Nov-2022 from 12:11 to 13:11
Worked on 6 bands:
9A1A C6AGU CN3A CR3DX CR3W CR6K DF0HQ DK3QZ DP6A E7DX ED1R EF2X EF6T ES9UKR FY5KE HB9IJC HQ9X II8K II9P IO3F KH6LC LA4C LN8W LY4A LZ9W M6T OT7T PI4CC PJ2T PJ4A PJ4K SM2U SP1AEN SP8R TK0C TM6M TO5Z V26K V47T VP5Y YT5A ZF1A
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 5 72 214 187 176 166 820
I 3 20 111 70 74 51 329
G 4 17 79 63 57 39 259
SP 1 41 74 49 58 28 251
F 3 11 62 40 55 41 212
PA 1 12 47 51 59 43 213
OK 2 23 64 45 41 35 210
EA 2 12 62 47 45 29 197
VE 15 38 64 18 14 9 158
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UR 1 5 21 17 16 2 62