2023 CQ WPX RTTY Contest AK1W
CQ WPX RTTY Contest - 2023 Call: AK1W Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Operating Time (hrs): 28 OpMode: 2BSIQ Summary: Band QSOs ------------ 80: 204 40: 543 20: 494 15: 769 10: 609 ------------ Total: 2619 Prefixes = 900 Total Score = 6,745,500 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
This is a fun contest. Never intended to do a full effort, but operated more than expected.
The first 8 hours were full-on. Things started slow but picked up as Europe woke up. Could not keep up with AA3B. Bud is amazing at working on 2 bands AND chasing multipliers.
Took some sleep and then continued. Could never really get good runs on 2 bands at the same time. It was almost like the bands were too open. Activity was really spread out.
Did my Sat morning errands. Weather was very nice outside. Got back on the radio, but the nice weather was calling. Took time off Sat afternoon to play 18 holes of golf. Got on for a while and discovered one of the best JA openings on
10 and 15 that I have experienced in a contest. My family called for me to cook dinner. Worked a bit more but was too sleepy to continue late.
Woke up Sunday morning and pushed hard for another 8+ hours. Managed to catch most of the guys who had gotten ahead of me. Was going to stop for the Super Bowl, but just kept going right to the end of the contest.
Station
K3 + AL-1200
K3 + AL-1500
80m: 4 square, dipole
40m: 2-el @110′. 2/2 @ 110’/65′
20m: 5/5 @100’/50′
15m: 5/5 @66’/33′
10m: 6-el @100′, 4/4 @62’/32′
TH7DXX @40′ (south)
WriteLog software, MK2R+ SO2R box
Rates
QSO/Pref by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- 67/58 3/2 31/25 8/8 109/93 109/93 D1-0100Z 8/7 52/39 27/19 3/3 - 90/68 199/161 D1-0200Z 55/33 51/34 - - - 106/67 305/228 D1-0300Z 41/9 46/31 - - - 87/40 392/268 D1-0400Z 25/9 74/36 - - - 99/45 491/313 D1-0500Z 19/5 60/29 2/1 - - 81/35 572/348 D1-0600Z 16/6 43/27 10/5 - - 69/38 641/386 D1-0700Z - 25/11 15/8 - - 40/19 681/405 32 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 681/405 60 D1-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 681/405 60 D1-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 681/405 60 D1-1100Z - 1/1 7/2 17/10 - 25/13 706/418 48 D1-1200Z - - 47/21 82/27 - 129/48 835/466 D1-1300Z - - 5/2 47/14 80/19 132/35 967/501 D1-1400Z - - - 53/12 63/26 116/38 1083/539 D1-1500Z - - - 39/5 22/9 61/14 1144/553 26 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1144/553 60 D1-1700Z - - - 36/10 44/13 80/23 1224/576 21 D1-1800Z - - - 19/5 31/12 50/17 1274/593 27 D1-1900Z - - - - - 0/0 1274/593 60 D1-2000Z - - - - - 0/0 1274/593 60 D1-2100Z - - - - - 0/0 1274/593 60 D1-2200Z - - - 28/19 33/21 61/40 1335/633 23 D1-2300Z - - 7/2 55/20 29/15 91/37 1426/670 2 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1426/670 60 D2-0100Z - - 12/2 13/3 - 25/5 1451/675 47 D2-0200Z - 17/4 46/15 7/0 - 70/19 1521/694 D2-0300Z 19/5 31/12 20/4 - - 70/21 1591/715 D2-0400Z 9/5 3/3 - - - 12/8 1603/723 45 D2-0500Z - - - - - 0/0 1603/723 60 D2-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 1603/723 60 D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 1603/723 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1603/723 60 D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 1603/723 60 D2-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 1603/723 60 D2-1100Z 3/0 1/0 20/8 30/5 - 54/13 1657/736 28 D2-1200Z - - 52/8 45/6 - 97/14 1754/750 D2-1300Z - - 6/0 22/5 47/10 75/15 1829/765 D2-1400Z - - - 46/11 85/10 131/21 1960/786 D2-1500Z - - - 32/10 65/9 97/19 2057/805 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 20/3 16/5 19/3 55/11 2112/816 D2-1700Z - - 10/0 58/6 26/6 94/12 2206/828 D2-1800Z - - 3/1 27/8 47/11 77/20 2283/848 D2-1900Z - - 53/10 9/2 - 62/12 2345/860 13 D2-2000Z - - - - - 0/0 2345/860 60 D2-2100Z - - 59/8 21/2 - 80/10 2425/870 16 D2-2200Z - 9/2 31/6 33/4 10/1 83/13 2508/883 D2-2300Z 9/1 63/10 39/6 - - 111/17 2619/900 Total: 204/80 543/297 494/133 769/217 609/173
Best 60 minutes: 144 @11-Feb-2023 13:08
Worked on 5 bands:
9A1A AC0C C37N CR3DX DJ4MX DK8ZZ DP7D DP9A DQ2C HA3DX IQ4FC MM9I N5YT NC0DX OK7W S51A TM3Z UW1M W9DCT
Most worked entities:
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
K 109 259 202 161 119 850
DL 20 51 37 101 89 298
I 9 34 28 59 48 178
JA 5 60 24 89
G 3 9 15 36 23 86
EA 2 18 16 19 20 75
SP 1 12 11 27 15 66