2024 WAE DX Contest CW K5ZD
WAE DX Contest, CW - 2024
Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 31
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs QTCs Mults
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80: 149 10 124
40: 337 250 123
20: 713 881 90
15: 650 725 88
10: 8 0 12
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Total: 1857 1866 437 Total Score = 1,626,951
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
We had a very nice summer weekend outside, but I chose to chase WRTC qualifying points. You can do that when your wife is out of town.
The contest started OK on 40m. But, when I started making QSOs on the second radio, I was getting reports about a rough note or not good tone. I listened on a remote SDR and could hear a bit of roughness on the signal. It was not there without the amplifier. I swapped in my backup amp (Alpha 76-CA) and there were no more complaints about the signal.
Good conditions on all bands except 10m where only the biggest guns could be worked on scatter.
I operated the first 12 hours without a break. Then things slowed down as the sun came up and only 15m was open.
Took short sleep breaks the second night. I knew there would be few new mults, but also not much activity on the low bands.
I think this contest is too long for the amount of activity. This was the most I have ever operated WAE CW. Much more fun when you only do the 20-24 good hours.
Excellent work by many Eu to copy the QTCs without repeats. Thanks for taking my QTCs!
I think I had more QTCs than QSOs because WriteLog was sending the dupe QSOs in the QTCs.
Station
K3 + AL-1200 (Alpha 76-CA)
K3 + AL-1500
80m: 4 square, dipole
40m: 2/2 @ 110’/70′
20m: 5/5 @ 100’/50′
15m: 5/5 @ 66’/33′
10m: 6/4/4 @ 100’/65’/30′
Rates
QSO/DXCC by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z 8/28 48/57 35/36 --+-- --+-- 91/121 91/121 D1-0100Z 19/16 19/21 16/14 - - 54/51 145/172 D1-0200Z 51/56 4/6 38/8 - - 93/70 238/242 D1-0300Z 31/16 22/12 10/4 - - 63/32 301/274 D1-0400Z - 32/6 14/4 20/16 - 66/26 367/300 D1-0500Z - 5/3 73/6 1/2 - 79/11 446/311 D1-0600Z - - 74/2 2/4 - 76/6 522/317 D1-0700Z - - 64/0 - - 64/0 586/317 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- 61/6 27/18 --+-- 88/24 674/341 D1-0900Z - - - 87/12 - 87/12 761/353 D1-1000Z - - - 101/14 - 101/14 862/367 D1-1100Z - - - 79/12 - 79/12 941/379 D1-1200Z - - - 42/2 - 42/2 983/381 27 D1-1300Z - - - - - 0/0 983/381 60 D1-1400Z - - - 12/2 2/4 14/6 997/387 43 D1-1500Z - - 1/2 55/4 - 56/6 1053/393 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 25/0 --+-- 25/0 1078/393 37 D1-1700Z - - - - - 0/0 1078/393 60 D1-1800Z - - 5/2 8/0 - 13/2 1091/395 44 D1-1900Z - - 36/0 24/0 - 60/0 1151/395 D1-2000Z - - 12/0 5/0 - 17/0 1168/395 30 D1-2100Z - - 3/0 1/0 - 4/0 1172/395 60 D1-2200Z - 11/0 46/0 2/0 - 59/0 1231/395 D1-2300Z - 17/6 14/4 - - 31/10 1262/405 D2-0000Z 1/0 17/0 2/0 --+-- --+-- 20/0 1282/405 24 D2-0100Z - - - - - 0/0 1282/405 60 D2-0200Z 12/0 20/3 - - - 32/3 1314/408 27 D2-0300Z 8/0 40/0 4/0 - - 52/0 1366/408 D2-0400Z 19/8 34/6 10/0 - - 63/14 1429/422 D2-0500Z - 39/0 26/0 - - 65/0 1494/422 D2-0600Z - 1/0 1/0 - - 2/0 1496/422 58 D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 1496/422 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1496/422 60 D2-0900Z - - 36/0 3/0 - 39/0 1535/422 6 D2-1000Z - - 17/0 29/2 - 46/2 1581/424 D2-1100Z - - 1/0 53/0 3/6 57/6 1638/430 D2-1200Z - - 2/0 24/0 3/2 29/2 1667/432 D2-1300Z - - - 3/0 - 3/0 1670/432 40 D2-1400Z - - - 9/0 - 9/0 1679/432 60 D2-1500Z - - - 25/0 - 25/0 1704/432 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 1/0 --+-- 1/0 1705/432 37 D2-1700Z - - 12/0 4/0 - 16/0 1721/432 60 D2-1800Z - - 21/0 5/0 - 26/0 1747/432 6 D2-1900Z - - 19/2 2/0 - 21/2 1768/434 60 D2-2000Z - - 38/0 1/0 - 39/0 1807/434 8 D2-2100Z - - - - - 0/0 1807/434 60 D2-2200Z - 19/0 14/0 - - 33/0 1840/434 15 D2-2300Z - 9/3 8/0 - - 17/3 1857/437 30 Totals: 149/124 337/123 713/90 650/88 8/12
Worked on 5 bands:
9A5Y CR6K DJ5MW DK9PY E7DX EF5Y
Worked on 4 bands: 100
Most worked entities:
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 61 111 215 217 2 606
I 3 19 41 44 107
SP 12 19 34 37 102
UA 2 11 37 39 89
OK 8 15 35 24 82
G 4 14 34 28 80