2024 CQ WW RTTY Contest K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY - 2024
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 32.3
OpMode: 2BSIQ
Summary:
Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 280 40 32 11
40: 717 50 63 22
20: 832 51 72 27
15: 1077 46 74 29
10: 729 34 81 28
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Total: 3635 221 322 117 Total Score = 5,963,100
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
Wow. These are the conditions that make us dream about sunspot maximums. No solar belches to mess things up. All bands were open. 10 meters was open well past dark.
Europeans on 40m over 2 hours after their sunrise. Beat the USA record from last year operating 8 fewer hours. Worked 51 stations on all 5 bands.
Activity was great as well. I never felt like there wasn’t someone new to work.
I was looking forward to the contest but didn’t think I had the mental fortitude to pull off a full-time effort. Over the previous three weekends, I had done all-Asia phone and WAE phone and then a week of travel. I had a great start, but at 0200z, I wasn’t feeling it, so I took a break to watch a movie. I came back on and then got hooked. I stayed up most of the night with just a short sleep break.
I started on 80m before sunrise and then moved up the bands. The activity was okay, but nothing great. Finally, I got to 15m—and wow—this is where everyone has been hanging out! Then 10 opened, so I had some great hours running on 2 bands.
Took a break to do some errands around town. Then worked some more guys. Then a break to take a walk (a great way to clear your head and make the contest fun again). Worked more guys. Stopped to cook dinner. Then worked more guys and finally took two short sleep breaks.
Sunday morning I went right to the high bands. More running on 2 bands. Not as crazy as Saturday, but the QSOs kept coming.
I was watching the scoreboard. My breaks saw K1LZ catch up and pass me on Saturday. Manu at K1LZ did a great job all weekend and destroyed the USA record I had set last year. Congrats to him!
I was low on multipliers on Sunday so tried to do more tuning around. Missed some easy ones. Such as New Hampshire on 80 and Connecticut on 10m. Only worked a few stations from Georgia. Only one station from NM and one from WV. Nothing from WY.
The most interesting DX was working YB stations on 15 and 10 meters at the same time in the late morning. It was the middle of the night for them.
Everything in the station worked great. Even with the windows open the shack was extra warm from all the RTTY action on 2 radios.
The operating proficiency of the RTTY ops continues to improve. Guys were sending their calls less often and the exchanges were very short. That helped make the high rates possible.
Thanks for all the QSOs. This is probably the last CQ WW RTTY for me from this location. I will be moving to Ohio next year.
Station
K3 + AL-1200
K3 + AL-1500
80m: 4 square, dipole @ 90′
40m: 2/2 @ 110’/70′
20m: 5/5 @ 100’/50′
15m: 5/5 @ 66’/33′
10m: 6/4/4 @ 100’/65’/30′
10-20m: C31xr @ 40′
By Continent
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 108 400 565 704 513 2290 63.0
NA 170 300 189 235 115 1009 27.8
SA 0 8 13 23 40 84 2.3
AS 0 4 51 100 48 203 5.6
AF 2 3 4 4 7 20 0.6
OC 0 2 10 11 6 29 0.8
Rates
QSO/Zn+Dx+St by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z --+-- --+-- 50/42 61/30 4/5 115/77 115/77
0100Z 12/16 75/47 27/10 7/0 - 121/73 236/150
0200Z - 34/17 35/12 - - 69/29 305/179 32
0300Z - - - - - 0/0 305/179 60
0400Z 2/3 52/13 30/9 - - 84/25 389/204 18
0500Z 66/27 74/10 - - - 140/37 529/241
0600Z 8/5 56/14 46/8 - - 110/27 639/268
0700Z 1/0 46/8 46/5 - - 93/13 732/281
0800Z 2/1 2/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 4/1 736/282 57
0900Z 18/3 14/3 - - - 32/6 768/288 36
1000Z 17/6 29/3 30/4 10/11 - 86/24 854/312
1100Z - - 51/6 110/26 6/8 167/40 1021/352
1200Z - - - 92/9 100/29 192/38 1213/390
1300Z - - - 75/4 70/18 145/22 1358/412
1400Z - - - 29/1 18/10 47/11 1405/423 36
1500Z - - - - - 0/0 1405/423 60
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 38/7 80/12 118/19 1523/442 5
1700Z - - - 55/8 68/4 123/12 1646/454
1800Z - - 11/3 15/0 12/5 38/8 1684/462 30
1900Z - - - - - 0/0 1684/462 60
2000Z - - 66/5 36/10 - 102/15 1786/477 14
2100Z - - 63/1 56/1 7/7 126/9 1912/486
2200Z - - - 46/5 25/7 71/12 1983/498 9
2300Z - - - 5/3 5/3 10/6 1993/504 60
0000Z --+-- 6/0 14/3 34/15 36/4 90/22 2083/526
0100Z 29/6 78/4 17/12 - - 124/22 2207/548
0200Z 51/8 22/5 - - - 73/13 2280/561 19
0300Z - - - - - 0/0 2280/561 60
0400Z 24/3 34/1 - - - 58/4 2338/565 24
0500Z 27/4 56/6 10/0 - - 93/10 2431/575
0600Z - 63/0 79/3 - - 142/3 2573/578
0700Z - 9/0 20/0 - - 29/0 2602/578 44
0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2602/578 60
0900Z - - - - - 0/0 2602/578 60
1000Z 5/0 5/1 15/2 42/2 - 67/5 2669/583 14
1100Z 10/0 15/0 - 75/2 25/1 125/3 2794/586
1200Z - - - 59/2 76/3 135/5 2929/591
1300Z - - - 35/4 77/6 112/10 3041/601
1400Z - - - 6/0 5/0 11/0 3052/601 52
1500Z - - - - - 0/0 3052/601 60
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 3052/601 60
1700Z - - - 29/2 34/9 63/11 3115/612 12
1800Z - - - 41/0 41/3 82/3 3197/615
1900Z - - 16/2 32/2 36/8 84/12 3281/627
2000Z - - 61/5 32/1 4/1 97/7 3378/634
2100Z - - 47/3 48/2 - 95/5 3473/639
2200Z - 30/2 54/5 9/2 - 93/9 3566/648
2300Z 8/1 17/1 44/10 - - 69/12 3635/660
Total: 280/83 717/135 832/150 1077/149 729/143
Best 60 minutes: 196 starting at 28-Sep-2024 11:56
Worked on 5 bands: (51)
9A1A CR3DX CR3W DG8M DJ1XT DJ5AN DK4VW DK5PD DL3YM DL5JS DL5NAV DL9GTB DM4X DP6A DP9A DR3W EI7M I2DJX IO3F IP4M IP4X IQ6AN IQ9RG K9CT LA3BPA LA5LJA LY2F MW9W N6WM N7UVH NJ4P NT5V OH5Z OK1KKI OK1PI OK5Z ON6NL OR3A PA4O PC0A PI4CC PI4COM RG2Y S50W SP6JZP TM3Z UB7K W0LSD WJ0W YO9HP ZF2SS
Most worked entities
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
K 146 261 162 203 89 861
DL 31 85 108 165 114 503
I 13 55 86 97 57 308
JA 1 30 81 37 149
SP 3 19 39 47 32 140
PA 4 19 29 35 36 123
G 4 14 23 40 31 112
So many JAs!