2017 CQ WW SSB Contest K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOAB(A) HP QTH: W1 Operating Time (hrs): 22.3 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 33 9 17 80: 156 16 67 40: 219 23 78 20: 1037 33 121 15: 1325 27 119 10: 117 12 35 ------------------------------ Total: 2887 120 437 Total Score = 4,672,673 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Casual effort. After 3 weeks away from home in the last 4, didn’t have the rest or motivation to do a full effort. Operated while it was fun and walked away when it wasn’t. It was fun most of the time.
Friday night was an SWL contest listening to Eu work each other. I took my first break after just an hour!
Sat morning was cool. Amazing rates on 15 meters. I remember when having a 100 hour was a big deal. This weekend I had 3 hours over 200!!
SH5 says best 60 minutes was 266. Sent my call after every QSO.
Worked EU on 10m both days. Sure didn’t expect that.
Conditions were improving on Sunday. Finally worked some JAs in the final hour. Had a bunch of VU call in on 20m during the afternoon. That’s what I love about this game – you never know.
Have never felt so weak on the low bands. I don’t think I had a single answer to a CQ on 75m. Called lots of Eu that were more than 20 over 9 and they just CQed in my face.
The CQ WW is an amazing event. Love all the activity from around the world.
Happy to work two different KP2 and KP4 stations. Hope the contest offered a break from their reality.
Funny moment. 2330z Sunday. KC4AAA announces he doesn’t want to do any more contesting and was going to QSY to 17 meters.
Thanks to everyone that got on the air and made QSOs in the contest.
Rates:
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z 3/4 6/8 40/33 1/2 --+-- --+-- 50/47 50/47 4 0100Z - 2/4 - - - - 2/4 52/51 60 0200Z - 25/22 25/19 9/4 - - 59/45 111/96 0300Z - - 7/1 - - - 7/1 118/97 56 0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 118/97 60 0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 118/97 60 0600Z 3/2 25/15 41/13 - - - 69/30 187/127 6 0700Z 6/6 12/7 10/7 - - - 28/20 215/147 22 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 215/147 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 215/147 60 1000Z - 3/2 7/5 2/4 - - 12/11 227/158 49 1100Z - - - 186/41 1/2 - 187/43 414/201 1200Z - - - 25/16 183/41 - 208/57 622/258 1300Z - - - - 263/16 - 263/16 885/274 1400Z - - - 20/9 152/6 1/2 173/17 1058/291 1500Z - - - 11/3 28/23 3/5 42/31 1100/322 20 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1100/322 60 1700Z - - - 23/10 35/10 10/9 68/29 1168/351 13 1800Z - - - 23/9 19/21 9/7 51/37 1219/388 1900Z - - - 114/11 13/5 8/3 135/19 1354/407 2000Z - - 9/4 18/11 22/9 22/1 71/25 1425/432 4 2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 1425/432 60 2200Z - - - - - - 0/0 1425/432 60 2300Z - 3/3 11/6 20/10 - - 34/19 1459/451 22 0000Z --+-- 12/2 --+-- 1/1 --+-- --+-- 13/3 1472/454 45 0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 1472/454 60 0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 1472/454 60 0300Z 5/6 32/13 6/2 - - - 43/21 1515/475 19 0400Z 10/6 29/5 32/4 - - - 71/15 1586/490 0500Z 4/2 - 8/2 - - - 12/4 1598/494 38 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 1598/494 60 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1598/494 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1598/494 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1598/494 60 1000Z 1/0 - 3/0 4/0 - - 8/0 1606/494 41 1100Z - - 1/2 171/3 4/1 - 176/6 1782/500 1200Z - - - 5/3 234/6 - 239/9 2021/509 1300Z - - - 18/0 129/1 - 147/1 2168/510 1400Z - - - - 43/0 - 43/0 2211/510 22 1500Z - - - 7/1 6/0 3/1 16/2 2227/512 60 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 3/2 151/1 7/2 161/5 2388/517 1700Z - - - 145/3 4/2 - 149/5 2537/522 1800Z - - - 124/5 5/0 12/8 141/13 2678/535 1900Z - - - 64/0 21/2 26/5 111/7 2789/542 2000Z - - 2/1 10/1 - 12/2 24/4 2813/546 16 2100Z - - 7/1 - 12/0 4/2 23/3 2836/549 60 2200Z - - 2/0 10/3 - - 12/3 2848/552 2300Z 1/0 7/2 8/1 23/2 - - 39/5 2887/557 Total: 33/26 156/83 219/101 1037/154 1325/146 117/47
Most worked countries:
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 8 16 149 188 361
EA 1 7 6 49 75 1 139
F 1 11 5 45 66 128
G 2 4 4 76 126 212
I 4 17 80 89 190
PA 6 3 58 51 118
UA 1 4 47 80 132
UR 1 2 21 66 90
Worked on 6 bands:
8P5A CU4DX EF8R HG7T PJ4G PJ4K PZ5K V26B ZF9CW