2019 WAE DX Contest CW K5ZD
Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: Single Op HP QTH: MA Operating Time (hrs): 25 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs QTCs Mults 80: 204 40 156 40: 362 459 123 20: 752 910 94 15: 181 80 72 10: 4 0 8 Total: 1503 1489 453 Total Score = 1,355,376 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
I turned 60 on Saturday of the contest. Enjoyed the good conditions and working almost 1000 QSOs. Then it got noisy and the activity went away. Too slow on Sunday!
Very strong CR6K on 10m Sat morning. Tried calling CQ but only one answer from EF5Y. Still, never expected to work EU on 10m.
This was my first true attempt at automated 2BSIQ (dual CQ). WriteLog has great automation to help, but sometimes the operator just couldn’t keep up. Sorry for those I didn’t work while trying to unscramble the log.
Lots of QSB on signals. A guy would call and be loud, then be weak when he sent his report. Had to ask for a lot of repeats. Even worse Sat evening on the low bands when the QRN was higher.
Was fun to watch the scoreboard and chase N6MJ, KO7SS, and AA3B all weekend. Kept me in the chair much longer than I had intended.
I think this contest would be more fun on the receiving side of QTCs… The only challenge for the sender is carefully picking guys who are loud and can copy the code.
Thanks to my family for letting me spend a beautiful summer day playing radio. And thanks to N1PGA for helping me fix the 80m 4-square and 15m beam the days before the contest.
Rates:
QSO/DXCC by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- 89/66 18/22 --+-- --+-- 107/88 107/88 D1-0100Z 59/92 9/6 8/6 - - 76/104 183/192 D1-0200Z 55/20 29/21 - - - 84/41 267/233 D1-0300Z 28/24 19/12 - - - 47/36 314/269 D1-0400Z 6/0 36/9 - - - 42/9 356/278 D1-0500Z 2/0 23/3 - - - 25/3 381/281 27 D1-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 381/281 60 D1-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 381/281 60 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 381/281 60 D1-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 381/281 60 D1-1000Z - - 81/32 - - 81/32 462/313 7 D1-1100Z - - 80/8 51/24 - 131/32 593/345 D1-1200Z - - 68/4 46/24 2/4 116/32 709/377 D1-1300Z - - 28/6 36/8 - 64/14 773/391 D1-1400Z - - 41/2 1/0 - 42/2 815/393 D1-1500Z - - 31/0 1/0 - 32/0 847/393 36 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- 1/2 --+-- --+-- 1/2 848/395 60 D1-1700Z - - 46/4 13/6 - 59/10 907/405 14 D1-1800Z - - - - - 0/0 907/405 60 D1-1900Z - - 69/0 - - 69/0 976/405 1 D1-2000Z - - 50/2 - - 50/2 1026/407 D1-2100Z - - 15/0 - - 15/0 1041/407 D1-2200Z - 48/0 6/0 - - 54/0 1095/407 60 D1-2300Z 7/4 26/0 4/0 - - 37/4 1132/411 D2-0000Z 17/0 14/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 31/0 1163/411 5 D2-0100Z - - - - - 0/0 1163/411 60 D2-0200Z - - - - - 0/0 1163/411 60 D2-0300Z 12/8 7/0 - - - 19/8 1182/419 31 D2-0400Z 1/0 12/3 - - - 13/3 1195/422 35 D2-0500Z - - - - - 0/0 1195/422 60 D2-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 1195/422 60 D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 1195/422 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1195/422 60 D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 1195/422 60 D2-1000Z - - 29/0 - - 29/0 1224/422 22 D2-1100Z - - 41/0 - - 41/0 1265/422 D2-1200Z - - 18/4 10/4 2/4 30/12 1295/434 D2-1300Z - - - 3/0 - 3/0 1298/434 9 D2-1400Z - - 20/2 7/2 - 27/4 1325/438 60 D2-1500Z - - 5/0 2/0 - 7/0 1332/438 49 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1332/438 60 D2-1700Z - - 14/0 2/2 - 16/2 1348/440 37 D2-1800Z - - 38/0 9/2 - 47/2 1395/442 D2-1900Z - - 19/0 - - 19/0 1414/442 30 D2-2000Z - - 4/0 - - 4/0 1418/442 60 D2-2100Z - 27/0 17/0 - - 44/0 1462/442 D2-2200Z - 10/3 - - - 10/3 1472/445 D2-2300Z 17/8 13/0 1/0 - - 31/8 1503/453 Total: 204/156 362/123 752/94 181/72 4/8
Final Results
Single-OP High Place Call QSOs Multi QTCs Result Deduction Club 1 P33W 2 465 576 2474 2844864 -0.4% LZ Contest Team 2 EF8R 2 329 527 2237 2406282 -0.8% EA CONTEST CLUB 3 UP0L 2 069 481 2070 1990859 -0.8% 4 RG9A 1 812 507 1836 1849536 -1.2% South Ural Contest Club 5 N6MJ 1 927 466 1945 1804352 -0.5% SCCC 6 RM9I 1 849 472 1848 1744984 -0.6% 7 R8TT 1 664 483 1637 1594383 -1.6% RUSSIAN CONTEST CLUB 8 PZ5CO 1 557 512 1360 1493504 -1.4% 9 KD4D 1 521 452 1530 1379052 -0.5% Potomac Valley Radio Club 10 AA3B 1 528 449 1528 1372144 -0.7% FRANKFORD RADIO CLUB 11 K5ZD 1 482 453 1489 1345863 -0.7% Yankee Clipper Contest Club