2022 CQ WW RTTY Contest K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY - 2022 Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Operating Time (hrs): 36.5 OpMode: 2BSIQ Summary: Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones ------------------------------------ 80: 287 48 39 14 40: 654 50 63 18 20: 1148 51 80 28 15: 926 44 78 24 10: 119 19 30 17 ------------------------------------ Total: 3134 212 290 101 Total Score = 4,386,825 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
I was looking forward to this contest. Conditions are improving as the sunspot numbers rise. And it was a good chance to evaluate the results of 6 months of antenna work (new 2/2 stack on 40m). Very happy with the results – the antenna seems to work better than my old 2-el.
The contest started well. After a nap in the wee hours, woke up to bands that seemed broken. 15m was really a struggle to work anything. Almost quit, but took a break and decided to get back in the game.
Conditions improved dramatically through Sat afternoon. Sunday was very good with even a 30-minute opening on 10m to southern Europe. Nice to work so many loud JA on 20 and 15m.
Spent (wasted) a lot of time calling HS5NMF on 20. Couldn’t get through the European pileup.
I had intended to sleep from 02-04z on Sunday, but when the alarm went off, I decided sleep was more fun than grinding QSOs. I woke up late, worked an hour, then went back to bed. So I felt great on Sunday but gave up some low band points and mults.
Enjoyed watching the scoreboard race between AA3B and K1LZ. I could keep up with them for QSOs, but they just kept getting farther and farther ahead for multipliers. Shows the value of having access to spots.
I was CQing as much as possible. Often on 2 bands when there were two open. That really helped the rate although I never had any giant hours. It is kind of like playing a video game with the occasional mangled callsign to figure out.
My biggest surprise was working a KL7 on 80m. Followed by having VJ5W call in.
The only state that I missed was MT. Never heard one. Thanks to K1AR for moving to 10m to give me NH on that band. Missed CT on 10 and 15.
I continue to be impressed by how RTTY operating is becoming more and more efficient. Except for those loud guys that insist on sending their call 6 times (all of them printing perfectly…).
Personal best score ever for me in this contest.
Rates
QSO/Zn+Dx+St by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z --+-- --+-- 68/42 42/25 --+-- 110/67 110/67
0100Z - 63/49 43/26 - - 106/75 216/142
0200Z 44/36 65/19 12/6 - - 121/61 337/203
0300Z 55/17 66/12 - - - 121/29 458/232
0400Z 26/8 64/12 3/3 - - 93/23 551/255
0500Z 52/14 38/5 - - - 90/19 641/274
0600Z 25/15 50/6 - - - 75/21 716/295
0700Z 1/0 28/3 1/0 - - 30/3 746/298 29
0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 746/298 60
0900Z 10/3 5/7 27/9 - - 42/19 788/317 29
1000Z 21/2 3/0 86/14 - - 110/16 898/333
1100Z - 6/0 58/8 18/21 - 82/29 980/362
1200Z - 13/1 54/2 18/9 - 85/12 1065/374
1300Z - - 23/0 5/4 16/17 44/21 1109/395
1400Z - - 57/3 16/11 2/0 75/14 1184/409
1500Z - - 15/3 24/7 2/3 41/13 1225/422 36
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 66/7 26/15 92/22 1317/444
1700Z - - 28/1 54/10 2/1 84/12 1401/456
1800Z - - 66/4 10/2 - 76/6 1477/462
1900Z - - 81/2 53/9 - 134/11 1611/473
2000Z - - 59/1 19/1 23/4 101/6 1712/479
2100Z - - 55/6 15/2 12/6 82/14 1794/493 1
2200Z - - - - - 0/0 1794/493 60
2300Z - 31/4 14/3 - - 45/7 1839/500 32
0000Z --+-- 40/3 9/3 16/5 --+-- 65/11 1904/511
0100Z 23/4 36/3 - 4/3 - 63/10 1967/521
0200Z 10/0 5/1 - - - 15/1 1982/522 47
0300Z - - - - - 0/0 1982/522 60
0400Z - - - - - 0/0 1982/522 60
0500Z - - - - - 0/0 1982/522 60
0600Z - - - - - 0/0 1982/522 60
0700Z 6/2 17/4 - - - 23/6 2005/528 22
0800Z 3/0 7/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 10/0 2015/528 44
0900Z 2/0 10/0 5/0 - - 17/0 2032/528 35
1000Z - 2/0 39/0 3/1 - 44/1 2076/529 20
1100Z - - 49/3 38/4 - 87/7 2163/536
1200Z - - 24/0 53/4 3/4 80/8 2243/544
1300Z - - 33/5 83/5 - 116/10 2359/554
1400Z - - 8/0 78/2 11/9 97/11 2456/565
1500Z - - 6/0 63/2 9/4 78/6 2534/571
1600Z --+-- --+-- 23/0 68/1 --+-- 91/1 2625/572
1700Z - - 6/3 31/0 8/2 45/5 2670/577
1800Z - - 18/1 28/3 - 46/4 2716/581 45
1900Z - - 37/4 51/2 2/1 90/7 2806/588
2000Z - - 46/0 29/2 3/0 78/2 2884/590
2100Z - - 46/0 29/3 - 75/3 2959/593
2200Z - 54/0 20/2 12/1 - 86/3 3045/596
2300Z 9/0 51/2 29/5 - - 89/7 3134/603
Total: 287/101 654/131 1148/159 926/146 119/66
Best 60 minutes
138 @ 19:01 24-Sep-2022
Worked on 5 bands
AA3B CR3DX CR3W EC2DX HI3MM IQ4FA IZ4BOY K0TG K1LZ K1SFA K7BTW KP2B KS9W KT7E N6WM NJ4P W7RN
Most worked countries
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
K 157 283 281 216 56 993
DL 29 65 175 135 1 405
I 8 44 115 92 5 264
G 8 23 47 46 124
PA 4 15 53 27 99
VE 21 32 18 14 3 88
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UR 1 4 6 7 18