2022 IARU HF World Championship K5ZD

writeup 
                    IARU HF World Championship - 2022

Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD

Class: SOAB(A)Mixed HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 21.7
OpMode: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
-------------------------------------
  160:    18     1      6        5
   80:    94    11     13       18
   40:   264    45     28       35
   20:   788   405     42       41
   15:   641   139     35       40
   10:   141    75     18       26
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Total:  1946   676    142      165  Total Score = 3,024,257

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments

A very entertaining contest.  Summer conditions always offer a few surprises and this contest had lots of them.

My summer project was to replace one of my towers (see https://k5zd.com/tower-replacement-project/). Things are not completely rebuilt, but I had antennas for all 6 bands.  This contest was to be a test of the new 40 and 10m beams.  Happy to report they appear to be worth the effort.

The contest started well with 10 and 15m open.  It got slow in the mid-day and then just kept getting better as Europe turned its attention to the West.

Our town had its 4th of July fireworks show Saturday evening.  I took a break to walk the 1.8 miles to the show and back.  Was a perfect evening outside and the walk cleared out the contest fatigue.  Lost just over 2 hours of prime low band mult hunting.

15m produced some deep Asians late in the evening and 20m was great all night.

Then 15m really opened the last 2 hours of the contest with the band open deep into UA/UA9!

Station

K3 + AL-1200

K3 + AL-1500

160m: 1/4-wave GP

80m: dipole @90′

40m: tower 1 40-2CD @110′, tower 2 40-2CD @109′

20m: 205CA @100′/50′

15m: 155CA @66′/33′

10m: 6-el @ 100’

South: TH7DXX @ 40′

WriteLog software, MK2R+ SO2R box

Rates

CW+PH/ZN+HQ by hour and band

 Hour     160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm    OffTime

D1-1200Z    -       -     23/4    87/19   27/11     -    137/34    137/34  
D1-1300Z    -       -       -     12/1     9/2    88/22  109/25    246/59  
D1-1400Z    -       -       -       -     77/16   70/7   147/23    393/82  
D1-1500Z    -       -       -      2/0    56/11   22/6    80/17    473/99  
D1-1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   65/5    59/10   --+--  124/15    597/114 
D1-1700Z    -       -       -     39/15   20/3    14/3    73/21    670/135 
D1-1800Z    -       -       -     40/0   107/1     5/0   152/1     822/136 
D1-1900Z    -       -       -     72/1    22/0      -     94/1     916/137 
D1-2000Z    -       -       -     89/2    28/4     5/2   122/8    1038/145 
D1-2100Z    -       -       -     93/12   39/3     2/0   134/15   1172/160 
D1-2200Z    -       -     34/21    7/1    66/0     1/1   108/23   1280/183 
D1-2300Z    -       -     70/13   27/5    42/1      -    139/19   1419/202 
D2-0000Z  --+--   --+--   14/2    --+--   --+--   --+--   14/2    1433/204    54
D2-0100Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1433/204    60
D2-0200Z  10/9    67/22     -       -      9/3      -     86/34   1519/238    21
D2-0300Z   3/1    19/5    65/10    6/1     5/2      -     98/19   1617/257 
D2-0400Z   2/1    11/2    48/4    65/4      -       -    126/11   1743/268 
D2-0500Z    -      3/2     1/1   146/6     1/1      -    151/10   1894/278 
D2-0600Z    -       -      4/2   159/1      -       -    163/3    2057/281 
D2-0700Z    -       -      7/0    86/3     3/0      -     96/3    2153/284 
D2-0800Z  --+--   --+--   25/1    38/0    --+--   --+--   63/1    2216/285 
D2-0900Z   4/0     5/0    12/3    86/1      -       -    107/4    2323/289 
D2-1000Z    -       -      6/2    72/5    30/3      -    108/10   2431/299 
D2-1100Z    -       -       -      2/1   180/4     9/3   191/8    2622/307 

Total:    19/11  105/31  309/63 1193/83  780/75  216/44