2020 CQ WW RTTY Contest K5ZD
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY - 2020 Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP QTH: W1 Operating Time (hrs): 18.6 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones ------------------------------------ 80: 226 39 31 10 40: 403 45 47 16 20: 847 47 68 24 15: 74 10 21 13 10: 6 2 4 4 ------------------------------------ Total: 1556 143 171 67 Total Score = 1,317,879 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Always a fun contest and a great test of the station in advance of the Fall contest season.
I spent the first two hours of the contest working on the log submission page at cqwwrtty.com. Should have done it weeks earlier, but didn’t get to it.
Thought the bands were ok the first night. Band was very slow to open in the morning. The VK signals on 40M after sunrise were amazingly good.
20m was a bit slow, but once opened it produced a nice rate. Didn’t have many opportunities this weekend to run on two bands since 15m never really opened.
Just a few states via some e-skip and then a few Eu when the band opened Sat afternoon.
Have some back pain that keeps me from doing long stints in the chair. Would operate a bit and then go out to enjoy a beautiful Fall day. Didn’t operate much at all on Saturday evening.
Good run on 20m again Sunday morning, but not much else. Packed it in to watch Formula One and then some football.
WriteLog worked great as always. Used 2Tone for decoding. I was having trouble printing some signals when I remembered I could set up a second clone decoder.
Used the Writelog built in decoder and it often copied things 2Tone could not (and vice versa). Having a second decoder is a great tool.
The live scoreboard at https://contestonlinescore.com/ keeps things interesting. Fun to watch AA3B just crush the multipliers. And to race against other stations with scores around mine.
We now know what CQ WW will look like in Covid days. There will be lots of QSOs, but no expeditions so a low multiplier. I missed several states including VT, ND, and MT. Even though there were two big operations from ME, I didn’t find them until Sunday afternoon. A consequence of all of us calling CQ all the time on 20m.
Even though the bands seemed OK because of the activity, I did not work a JA and only a few Russians. Most QSOs were from southern Eu and USA.
See everyone in the next one!
Rates
QSO/Zn+Dx+St by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime 0000Z - - - - - 0/0 0/0 60 0100Z - - - - - 0/0 0/0 60 0200Z 1/2 - 15/20 - - 16/22 16/22 0300Z 69/40 10/18 - - - 79/58 95/80 0400Z 53/18 75/32 - - - 128/50 223/130 0500Z 29/6 33/7 - - - 62/13 285/143 26 0600Z - - - - - 0/0 285/143 60 0700Z - - - - - 0/0 285/143 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 285/143 60 0900Z 18/5 4/4 - - - 22/9 307/152 38 1000Z 31/8 21/8 - - - 52/16 359/168 1100Z - 48/9 19/16 - - 67/25 426/193 1200Z - 11/0 79/22 - - 90/22 516/215 6 1300Z - - - - - 0/0 516/215 60 1400Z - 1/0 82/17 18/22 - 101/39 617/254 5 1500Z - - 64/12 19/11 1/3 84/26 701/280 1600Z --+-- --+-- 76/8 11/7 --+-- 87/15 788/295 1700Z - - 3/0 - - 3/0 791/295 58 1800Z - - - - - 0/0 791/295 60 1900Z - - - - - 0/0 791/295 60 2000Z - - 8/0 - - 8/0 799/295 53 2100Z - 37/10 29/5 - - 66/15 865/310 2200Z 13/1 58/6 10/3 - - 81/10 946/320 4 2300Z - - - - - 0/0 946/320 60 0000Z 3/0 15/3 23/5 --+-- --+-- 41/8 987/328 27 0100Z - 35/6 42/4 - - 77/10 1064/338 2 0200Z - - - - - 0/0 1064/338 60 0300Z - - - - - 0/0 1064/338 60 0400Z - - - - - 0/0 1064/338 60 0500Z - - - - - 0/0 1064/338 60 0600Z - - - - - 0/0 1064/338 60 0700Z - - - - - 0/0 1064/338 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1064/338 60 0900Z - - - - - 0/0 1064/338 60 1000Z - 8/0 5/1 - - 13/1 1077/339 44 1100Z 9/0 27/2 31/1 - - 67/3 1144/342 1200Z - 13/3 92/2 - - 105/5 1249/347 1300Z - - 89/4 4/1 - 93/5 1342/352 1400Z - - 79/4 3/1 - 82/5 1424/357 1500Z - - 7/0 - - 7/0 1431/357 55 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1431/357 60 1700Z - - 3/0 3/0 1/1 7/1 1438/358 50 1800Z - - 72/9 4/1 4/6 80/16 1518/374 1900Z - 7/0 19/6 12/1 - 38/7 1556/381 2000Z - - - - - 0/0 1556/381 60 2100Z - - - - - 0/0 1556/381 60 2200Z - - - - - 0/0 1556/381 60 2300Z - - - - - 0/0 1556/381 60 Total: 226/80 403/108 847/139 74/44 6/10