2018 CQ WW RTTY Contest K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Class Overlay: Classic Operating Time (hrs): 23 Summary: Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones ------------------------------------ 80: 229 40 34 11 40: 369 46 50 17 20: 834 44 72 25 15: 150 13 41 17 10: 7 3 4 3 ------------------------------------ Total: 1589 146 201 73 Total Score = 1,530,480 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Knew I was playing golf on Sat morning and attending a symphony orchestra concert on Sat evening. Decided to try the Classic category even though I would not be able to operate at the optimum times.
It was fun. I missed having the second radio to tune around while CQing, but I also enjoyed the strategic decision making needed to decide when to run and when to tune around. Reminded me of how contesting used to be when I first started.
Bands and activity were better than expected.
Managed to have a 102 hour running with just one rig! The RTTY ops are getting faster and more efficient. If many would just send their call twice instead of 3-4 times, and if they wouldn’t send my call, we could see even faster rates!
Most studly QSO was with TO6OK on 15m. Can’t believe he pulled my call out of the mess. Then it took 5 overs before we could get the exchange due to Europeans that would not stop calling. Read the screen guys!
I don’t know what it is about RTTY, but really enjoy trying to dig out calls and make QSOs with all the QRM and QSB.
Thanks to everyone that got on. Lots of fun! (All those FT8 guys should have tried RTTY this weekend…)
Rates:
QSO/Zn+Dx+St by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off D1-0000Z --+-- 37/39 17/22 --+-- --+-- 54/61 54/61 D1-0100Z - 88/28 - - - 88/28 142/89 D1-0200Z - 63/19 - - - 63/19 205/108 D1-0300Z 52/43 4/3 - - - 56/46 261/154 D1-0400Z 16/7 1/0 - - - 17/7 278/161 40 D1-0500Z - - - - - 0/0 278/161 60 D1-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 278/161 60 D1-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 278/161 60 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 278/161 60 D1-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 278/161 60 D1-1000Z - 3/3 6/7 - - 9/10 287/171 49 D1-1100Z - - 93/28 - - 93/28 380/199 D1-1200Z - - 8/3 - - 8/3 388/202 56 D1-1300Z - - - - - 0/0 388/202 60 D1-1400Z - - - - - 0/0 388/202 60 D1-1500Z - - - - - 0/0 388/202 60 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 388/202 60 D1-1700Z - - - - - 0/0 388/202 60 D1-1800Z - - - - - 0/0 388/202 60 D1-1900Z - - 35/9 5/5 - 40/14 428/216 30 D1-2000Z - - 89/12 - - 89/12 517/228 D1-2100Z - - 63/12 3/7 2/3 68/22 585/250 D1-2200Z - - 28/6 8/6 - 36/12 621/262 32 D1-2300Z - - - - - 0/0 621/262 60 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 621/262 60 D2-0100Z - - - - - 0/0 621/262 60 D2-0200Z 23/11 - - - - 23/11 644/273 38 D2-0300Z 73/16 - - - - 73/16 717/289 D2-0400Z 21/4 38/6 - - - 59/10 776/299 D2-0500Z 17/4 31/2 - - - 48/6 824/305 5 D2-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 824/305 60 D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 824/305 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 824/305 60 D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 824/305 60 D2-1000Z 27/1 10/5 - - - 37/6 861/311 26 D2-1100Z - - 102/9 - - 102/9 963/320 D2-1200Z - - 45/1 11/17 1/3 57/21 1020/341 D2-1300Z - - 80/7 - - 80/7 1100/348 D2-1400Z - - 9/0 53/14 - 62/14 1162/362 D2-1500Z - - 13/2 28/11 - 41/13 1203/375 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 87/6 --+-- 1/1 88/7 1291/382 D2-1700Z - - 23/3 28/10 1/1 52/14 1343/396 D2-1800Z - - 66/4 - - 66/4 1409/400 D2-1900Z - - - 7/0 - 7/0 1416/400 51 D2-2000Z - - - 3/2 2/2 5/4 1421/404 51 D2-2100Z - - 48/1 2/0 - 50/1 1471/405 D2-2200Z - 21/1 22/9 2/0 - 45/10 1516/415 35 D2-2300Z - 73/7 - - - 73/7 1589/422 Total: 229/86 369/113 834/141 150/72 7/10
Best clock hour: 102
Best 60 mins: 104
Worked on 5 bands (2):
P49X ZX2B
Worked on 4 bands (19):
9A1A 9A5Y AC0C CR3W DD2ML DR5N IQ4FC K0JJR K3EST KB1EFS KI1G KV1J PI4COM S51A S53S SN7Q VP2V/AA7V YT2T YU5R