2023 ARRL Sweepstakes CW K5ZD
ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW - 2023 Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: Single Op HP QTH: MA Operating Time (hrs): 22 OpMode: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs ------------ 160: 0 80: 104 40: 417 20: 384 15: 136 10: 95 ------------ Total: 1136 Sections = 85 Total Score = 193,120 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
Worst. Sunday. Ever.
The first 6-7 hours of the contest was fun. I love the long exchange and trying to interleave QSOs on the second radio.
The hard sections seemed to be easy to find. I got the sweep when VA1RST called in on 80m at 0630z. (I worked at least 2 of every section except PE/VY2TT and VI/KP2M.)
Sunday was awful. So many unanswered CQs. Rate never happened during the morning so the afternoon, with the added solar storm, was even worse.
I would have quit but wanted to make my goal of 1000 QSOs. Did it. Then activity started to improve so I pushed a little further. Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore and ended an hour early.
Was keeping an eye on AA3B and N2NT on the scoreboard. They at least validated that there was no rate. We all marched along in lockstep. 🙁
Thanks to everyone who got on. It is always difficult the weekend immediately after a great high sunspot CQ WW.
Rates
QSO/Sec by hour and band Hour 80 40 20 15 10 Total Cumm OffTime D1-2100Z - - 75/35 17/8 5/3 97/46 97/46 D1-2200Z - - 35/8 - 76/16 111/24 208/70 D1-2300Z - 12/1 45/2 31/0 6/2 94/5 302/75 D2-0000Z --+-- 34/5 --+-- 62/2 --+-- 96/7 398/82 D2-0100Z - 63/0 27/0 - - 90/0 488/82 D2-0200Z 21/1 54/1 - - - 75/2 563/84 D2-0300Z 13/0 34/0 12/0 - - 59/0 622/84 D2-0400Z 7/0 52/0 1/0 - - 60/0 682/84 D2-0500Z 12/0 23/0 - - - 35/0 717/84 D2-0600Z 11/1 21/0 - - - 32/1 749/85 9 D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 749/85 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 749/85 60 D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 749/85 60 D2-1000Z 4/0 - - - - 4/0 753/85 56 D2-1100Z 29/0 18/0 - - - 47/0 800/85 D2-1200Z 2/0 21/0 2/0 - - 25/0 825/85 D2-1300Z - 14/0 17/0 - - 31/0 856/85 D2-1400Z - 16/0 15/0 - - 31/0 887/85 D2-1500Z - 18/0 10/0 3/0 - 31/0 918/85 D2-1600Z --+-- 1/0 5/0 --+-- --+-- 6/0 924/85 38 D2-1700Z - - 21/0 10/0 - 31/0 955/85 D2-1800Z - 5/0 16/0 1/0 3/0 25/0 980/85 D2-1900Z - - 2/0 - - 2/0 982/85 53 D2-2000Z - - 10/0 2/0 5/0 17/0 999/85 28 D2-2100Z - 7/0 16/0 1/0 - 24/0 1023/85 D2-2200Z - - 38/0 9/0 - 47/0 1070/85 D2-2300Z - 10/0 29/0 - - 39/0 1109/85 D3-0000Z --+-- 2/0 5/0 --+-- --+-- 7/0 1116/85 49 D3-0100Z 5/0 12/0 3/0 - - 20/0 1136/85 D3-0200Z - - - - - 0/0 1136/85 60 Total: 104/2 417/7 384/45 136/10 95/21