2013 ARRL Sweepstakes CW
ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: Single Op HP QTH: W1 Operating Time (hrs): 21 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs ------------ 160: 0 80: 244 40: 367 20: 439 15: 149 10: 43 ------------ Total: 1242 Sections = 83 Total Score = 206,172 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
My 37th consecutive year with more than 1000 QSOs in SS CW. I do love this contest!
Bands were interesting Saturday evening. Skip was very short even on 20 and 15 so it was possible to work most of the country right out of the gate. Didn’t make my first contact on 40 meters until 0226z!
Had a sweep at 0328 when K2NNY called in. Next to last section was KP2M in VI. I think I eventually worked 2 or more of everything. Its a great feeling to have the sweep in hand and then only have to concentrate on making QSOs.
Felt like I had a good start, but the rate died around 0700z. Sunday morning everyone seemed to go right to 20m. Did well CQing on 40m and picking off new stations on 20m.
After about noon it got too sloooowwwwwww. I would CQ for 10 minutes without an answer. Took a break to walk the dog. Took another break to eat dinner. When I made my first QSO on returning, I realized it was only 26 minutes and therefore not an offtime. Ouch.
From that point on I would come and go as I had time. Rate never picked back up so threw in the towel with 1 hour to go. With the 1000 QSO goal achieved, I was happy with the result. And I had enough SO2R practice to be ready for WW CW.
Thanks to everyone who was on. There really is something special about passing SS traffic all weekend.
Ratesheet
QSO/Sec by hour and band Hour 80 40 20 15 10 Total Cumm Off 2100Z - - 74/41 - 18/10 92/51 92/51 2200Z - - 58/6 25/5 2/2 85/13 177/64 2300Z - - 33/5 50/1 - 83/6 260/70 0000Z 5/0 --+-- 70/4 16/1 --+-- 91/5 351/75 0100Z 69/5 - 18/0 - - 87/5 438/80 0200Z 17/0 45/0 15/1 - - 77/1 515/81 0300Z 9/0 37/0 22/2 - - 68/2 583/83 0400Z 66/0 13/0 - - - 79/0 662/83 0500Z 16/0 58/0 - - - 74/0 736/83 0600Z 19/0 30/0 - - - 49/0 785/83 0700Z 5/0 2/0 - - - 7/0 792/83 51 0800Z 9/0 12/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 21/0 813/83 28 0900Z - - - - - 0/0 813/83 60 1000Z - - - - - 0/0 813/83 60 1100Z 1/0 7/0 - - - 8/0 821/83 53 1200Z 7/0 46/0 2/0 - - 55/0 876/83 1300Z - 40/0 10/0 - - 50/0 926/83 1400Z - 34/0 7/0 - - 41/0 967/83 1500Z - 25/0 4/0 11/0 - 40/0 1007/83 1600Z --+-- --+-- 35/0 9/0 2/0 46/0 1053/83 1700Z - - 36/0 5/0 6/0 47/0 1100/83 5 1800Z - - - - - 0/0 1100/83 60 1900Z - 4/0 17/0 8/0 2/0 31/0 1131/83 8 2000Z - - 18/0 4/0 13/0 35/0 1166/83 2100Z - - 4/0 8/0 - 12/0 1178/83 2200Z - - 11/0 13/0 - 24/0 1202/83 41 2300Z 8/0 2/0 5/0 - - 15/0 1217/83 29 0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1217/83 60 0100Z 11/0 10/0 - - - 21/0 1238/83 28 0200Z 2/0 2/0 - - - 4/0 1242/83 Tot: 244/5 367/0 439/59 149/7 43/12