2020 CQ WW Contest CW K5ZD

                CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2020
 Call: K5ZD
 Operator(s): K5ZD
 Station: K5ZD
 Class: SO(A)AB HP
 QTH: MA
 Operating Time (hrs): 43
 Radios: SO2R

 Summary:
   Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
   160:  127    15       48
    80:  676    24       81
    40: 1617    32      110
    20: 1249    34      112
    15: 1181    29      108
    10:   79    20       40
 Total: 4929   154      498  Total Score = 9,245,174
 
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

This is always the best contest of the year.  It has DX, activity, great ops, and usually some interesting conditions.  This year was no exception.

Full SO2R effort with the cluster.  Best motivational tool was the contestonlinescore.com online scoreboard. Kept me pushing to keep up all the way through.

Bands were open but not very deep. Worked zone 18 on 40 and 80, but not 20! Few JAs or UA9/0. Nice to see high bands open, although 10m was just marginal.  I called a bunch of mults on 10 and 160 without success. Definitely need to work on the 10m stack as I am not sure it is playing very well.

Never heard zones 23, 26, 27, 34, and 39.

Country totals would have been great if not for Covid limiting expedition travels.

Nice to have a beam again on 40m after 2 years of using a dipole.  See story at “Fixing my Intermittent 40-2CD”

Always fun to see so many skilled CW ops enjoying themselves. Thanks to all who participated.

Station:

 K3 + AL-1200
 K3 + AL-1500
 Writelog/DigiRite + MK2R+
 160: Shunt fed tower, elevated 1/4-wave GP
 80: 4 square, dipole @ 80'
 40: 40-2CD @ 110', diople at 60'
 20: 205CA @ 100'/50'
 15: 155CA @ 66'/33'
 10: 6-ele @ 90'
 South: TH7DXX @ 40'

Rates:

QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band

Hour   160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm   Off
0000Z  --+--   --+--  111/50   20/29   --+--   --+--  131/79    131/79  
0100Z  10/14   54/25   49/15    2/0      -       -    115/54    246/133 
0200Z    -     68/31   41/6      -       -       -    109/37    355/170 
0300Z    -     89/5    46/17     -       -       -    135/22    490/192 
0400Z  25/23   36/2    44/6      -       -       -    105/31    595/223 
0500Z  12/9    37/10   15/2    14/14     -       -     78/35    673/258 
0600Z   4/3    84/2    18/4      -       -       -    106/9     779/267 
0700Z    -     16/9   144/5      -       -       -    160/14    939/281 
0800Z   3/3     4/2    88/9     7/6    --+--   --+--  102/20   1041/301 
0900Z   1/1     6/2    72/5      -       -       -     79/8    1120/309 
1000Z    -      4/0     4/2    21/13     -       -     29/15   1149/324     16
1100Z    -       -      6/1   137/15     -       -    143/16   1292/340 
1200Z    -       -      1/2   194/8    21/22     -    216/32   1508/372 
1300Z    -       -       -     83/9   123/21     -    206/30   1714/402 
1400Z    -       -       -      6/5   179/8    15/21  200/34   1914/436 
1500Z    -       -       -     52/7   104/29     -    156/36   2070/472 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--  123/3    18/10    6/2   147/15   2217/487 
1700Z    -       -       -    106/6    12/8      -    118/14   2335/501 
1800Z    -       -       -     11/4    15/10   21/7    47/21   2382/522    11
1900Z    -       -     14/0     5/4    11/7     7/5    37/16   2419/538    10
2000Z    -       -     46/2     4/4      -      2/2    52/8    2471/546    15
2100Z    -       -    145/0     4/3      -       -    149/3    2620/549 
2200Z    -      1/2   100/0     9/2      -       -    110/4    2730/553 
2300Z  16/3      -     54/0    10/2      -       -     80/5    2810/558 
0000Z   1/0    21/3    49/4    --+--   --+--   --+--   71/7    2881/565 
0100Z  32/4     6/5    26/2      -       -       -     64/11   2945/576 
0200Z   1/0    79/4     4/2      -       -       -     84/6    3029/582 
0300Z   6/2     3/1     1/1      -       -       -     10/4    3039/586    40
0400Z   1/1    17/2    51/0      -       -       -     69/3    3108/589 
0500Z  11/0     6/0    64/0      -       -       -     81/0    3189/589 
0600Z   2/0    77/0    11/1      -       -       -     90/1    3279/590 
0700Z    -     52/0    23/0      -       -       -     75/0    3354/590 
0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    3354/590    60
0900Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    3354/590    60
1000Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    3354/590    60
1100Z   1/0     1/0     6/0   101/0      -       -    109/0    3463/590 
1200Z    -       -       -    121/2    49/7      -    170/9    3633/599 
1300Z    -       -       -      1/2   174/7     2/4   177/13   3810/612 
1400Z    -       -       -       -    166/0     6/6   172/6    3982/618 
1500Z    -       -       -     35/1   106/0     4/5   145/6    4127/624 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--  136/0    11/6   147/6    4274/630 
1700Z    -       -       -     86/1    41/2     2/0   129/3    4403/633 
1800Z    -       -       -     72/2    14/0     2/0    88/2    4491/635 
1900Z    -       -       -     15/2     5/3     1/2    21/7    4512/642    27
2000Z    -       -    104/1     4/0     2/1      -    110/2    4622/644    14
2100Z    -       -    105/1     2/0     5/2      -    112/3    4734/647 
2200Z    -      5/0    97/3     4/2      -       -    106/5    4840/652 
2300Z   1/0    10/0    78/1      -       -       -     89/1    4929/653 
Total 127/63 676/105 1617/142 1249/146 1181/137 79/60 

Best 60 mins: 220 starting 28-Nov-2020 11:54     

Worked on 6 bands (11):

5T3WW CR3DX CR3W CR6K FY5KE KP3DX LZ9W P40W TI7W V31MA ZF1A

Worked on 5 bands (23)

Most worked countries:

      160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total 
DL       5    125    261    199    195            785  
I        5     17    122     75     94      1     314  
G        6     30     69     61     89      1     256  
F        2     38     72     46     73      1     232 
UA       2     23     72    101     32            230 
SP       4     31     89     51     53            228 
OK       2     33     77     45     47            204 
EA       2     15     71     56     53      2     199 
UR       2     13     71     57     29            172 
PA       2     19     49     36     55            161 
VE      26     44     37     20     15      2     144 
S5       2     24     43     29     23            121  
K       17     21     44     27      9      2     120 
HA       1     20     45     33     20            119