Author: K5ZD

2012 CQ WW CW Contest K5ZD

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K5ZD, Single Operator Assisted All Bands

 
                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:  133    13       59
   80:  609    23       95
   40: 1066    32      118
   20:  945    36      123
   15: 1116    34      126
   10:  790    29      110
------------------------------
Total: 4659   167      631  Total Score = 10,745,868

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

I didn’t feel like I had the motivation to do a serious SOAB entry. I have never done Assisted before and it seemed like that would be a fun way to chase DX. On Friday I figured out how to connect to a cluster and set filters to only get Skimmer spots. I would learn on the job.

I now know that even being assisted doesn’t always help with the people who won’t send their calls. People – it only takes 3 seconds to send your call!

Conditions were clearly down on Saturday, but that just meant all the action was on 15m instead of 10m. Sunday things were better and 10 meters returned.

160m and 80m were good all weekend. Very quiet here in W1. 40m was wiped out at the start of the contest, but got better through the weekend.

Bands didn’t seem to be as crowded. Maybe it was just having room for everyone to spread out across multiple bands. Sure nice having some space to hear the weak ones.

Rates were fantastic. Best 60 minutes was 220 QSOs – a personal best on CW! And part of the reason I couldn’t stop operating once I started. What was planned to be a casual effort became a full on push for maximum score. Two hours off the first night and 4 hours the second. Probably could slept less, but wanted to be fresh for the big runs in the daytime.

The Assisted category was fascinating. Always fun to learn new things. Like how to chase spots without losing a run frequency. And how to decide when to keep running and when to chase. Found some of my best multipliers when I was tuning, so can’t rely just on skimmer to find everything.

Hope everyone had as much fun as I did.

Randy, K5ZD

Station Description

Radio 1 – Elecraft K3 + Alpha 76CA Radio 2 – Yeasu FT-1000D + Ameritron AL-1200 (~1200w)

Tower 1 – 100′ Rohn 45G

  • 40-2CD @ 110′
  • 205CA @ 100′ / 50′
  • 5-el 15 @70′ / 35′
  • 160m 1/4-wave GP with 4 elevated radials

Tower 2 – 90′ Rohn 25G

  • 6-el 10 @90′ with 4/4 @ 60’/30′
  • 80m wire 4 square hanging from tower with 16 radials per vertical
  • 160m shunt feed tower with 32 radials

Tower 3 – 40′ Rohn 25G

  • TH7DXX at 40′ pointed South

Continent Breakdown

      160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total      %

AF       5      9     17     17     21     23      92     2.0
NA      31     61    102     72     56     45     367     7.9
OC       1      3      9     16     14      9      52     1.1
SA       5     12     28     35     32     40     152     3.3
EU      88    512    884    753    931    669    3837    82.4
AS       3     12     26     52     62      4     159     3.4

Rates

QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band

Hour  160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm    Off

00Z   --+--   --+--   57/41   13/19   --+--   --+--   70/60     70/60  
01Z     -     49/25   21/16    9/10     -       -     79/51    149/111 
02Z     -     84/27    2/1      -       -       -     86/28    235/139 
03Z   26/26   37/13     -       -       -       -     63/39    298/178 
04Z   28/9      -     41/23     -       -       -     69/32    367/210 
05Z   41/13   34/7      -       -       -       -     75/20    442/230 
06Z    9/5    86/16    8/2      -       -       -    103/23    545/253 
07Z    5/4    11/7    37/18     -       -       -     53/29    598/282 
08Z    2/2     7/2   100/5     3/4    --+--   --+--  112/13    710/295 
09Z    2/2     2/2    36/5    36/21     -       -     76/30    786/325 
10Z     -       -     11/5     4/5      -       -     15/10    801/335    43
11Z     -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     801/335    60
12Z     -       -      3/0   138/15     -      1/2   142/17    943/352     2
13Z     -       -       -     32/16  148/32    8/12  188/60   1131/412 
14Z     -       -       -       -    185/24   20/16  205/40   1336/452 
15Z     -       -       -       -    147/9    35/16  182/25   1518/477 
16Z   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--  154/6    17/14  171/20   1689/497 
17Z     -       -       -     91/7    49/9     6/5   146/21   1835/518 
18Z     -       -       -    149/5    22/25     -    171/30   2006/548 
19Z     -       -       -     94/5    16/9    17/10  127/24   2133/572 
20Z     -       -      8/1    38/16     -      4/5    50/22   2183/594 
21Z     -       -    135/4      -     12/8     2/0   149/12   2332/606 
22Z     -       -    108/2      -     10/6     5/5   123/13   2455/619 
23Z     -       -     91/0    12/9    11/3      -    114/12   2569/631 
00Z   --+--   13/4    57/6     6/7    --+--   --+--   76/17   2645/648 
01Z     -     61/4    23/6    12/3      -       -     96/13   2741/661 
02Z    3/1    16/3     4/4     7/0      -       -     30/8    2771/669 
03Z    6/4    12/0    30/1      -       -       -     48/5    2819/674 
04Z    1/0    37/3     1/1     4/3      -       -     43/7    2862/681 
05Z    7/3    77/1     4/1      -       -       -     88/5    2950/686 
06Z    2/2    52/0    21/2     1/1      -       -     76/5    3026/691 
07Z    1/1     4/2    28/1     1/1      -       -     34/5    3060/696    31
08Z   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    3060/696    60
09Z     -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    3060/696    60
10Z     -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    3060/696    60
11Z     -      4/2      -      3/1    25/6      -     32/9    3092/705    40
12Z     -       -       -       -    156/7    24/14  180/21   3272/726 
13Z     -       -       -      3/1     5/3   188/13  196/17   3468/743 
14Z     -       -       -      1/1     8/2   171/8   180/11   3648/754 
15Z     -       -       -     10/4      -    142/5   152/9    3800/763 
16Z   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   37/0    96/7   133/7    3933/770 
17Z     -       -       -       -     77/3    36/3   113/6    4046/776 
18Z     -       -       -    146/0     5/2     4/1   155/3    4201/779 
19Z     -       -       -     87/1    11/2     2/1   100/4    4301/783 
20Z     -       -     22/0    25/1     9/2      -     56/3    4357/786 
21Z     -       -    110/2      -      4/0    12/2   126/4    4483/790 
22Z     -       -     76/2    10/1    13/1      -     99/4    4582/794 
23Z     -     23/0    32/1    10/2    12/1      -     77/4    4659/798 

Tot: 133/72 609/118 1066/150 945/159 1116/160 790/139

Six bands: 8P5A 9A1A C5A CR2X CR6K D4C DF0HQ DH0GHU DL4MCF DL8ZAW DP9A DR1A EA2EA EI7M EL2A F6KOP G5O HK1NA II1A IO5O LY2W LZ9W NP4Z OM8A OQ5M P33W PI4CC PJ2T PJ4A PZ5T S50XX SP1NY TM4Q UW3U VP2MMM VP2V/AA7V VE2EKA VP5CW YT2W Z38N

Five bands: 84 !

Thanks to everyone who make this contest so much fun!

SO2R Videos

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Yankee Clipper Contest Club president K1RX had the idea of producing
some educational videos about contest operating. Geoffrey, KA1IOR, volunteered
to lead the project and single operator two radio (SO2R) was chosen as
the subject.  I was asked to provide a demonstration that could be
filmed.  We used the second day of the CQ WPX SSB Contest as a platform
to do some operating and try to capture some useful examples. We also
did an interview to help explain what was going on.

Geoffrey edited it all into a 22 minute video that was divided into
3 parts to fit You Tube limits.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 1 is the interview.  Parts 2 and 3 show examples of SO2R
operation.

CQWW 1500W Limit

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Contesting is a game. Games have rules. The rules create barriers or constraints that equalize the competition or create strategic choices. If we ignore the rules we don’t like, the game is no longer meaningful.

Those stations that run more than 1500W are cheating. Much the same way users of performance enhancing drugs in bicycle racing, Olympic sports, baseball, etc. are cheating.

The temptation to cheat is strong. “It doesn’t hurt anyone.” “It makes up for my poor location.” “Everyone else is doing it.” These are all justifications to make the cheater feel better. They do not make it right.

The cheaters are hurting the contest. Their loud signals drive other contesters off the bands. Participants lose faith in the integrity of the game and decide not to play. New contesters see the cheaters make big scores and think that is the way to compete so the next generation learns to cheat.

Power cheating happens all over the world. Temptation and lack of control is a human condition. In ham radio contesting it seems to happen much more in some places than others. These areas are so invested in cheating that they ask for the rules to be changed to make it OK.

In the end, there are those that follow the rules. We respect their integrity, their effort, and their achievements. For the others, we see their scores, but we know they are dirty. Maybe they are not disqualified (because there is not the oversight of professional sports), but we do not have to respect them.

Fair play means following the rules. All of them.

Randy Thompson, K5ZD

(This was originally posted to cq-contest mailing list, September 12, 2013)

Audio – CQ WW CW 2012

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Audio Archive – K5ZD CQ WW CW 2012

This page allows you to search the K5ZD log from CQ WW CW 2012 and play audio of the QSOs that are found.  View the Cabrillo log.  Read the 3830 contest report.

Enter a call sign to get a list of all QSOs with that call (call must be exact match). Click on the download link to play or download the audio.

This was an SO2R operation. The audio is the same as heard by the operator. When headphones are ‘split’, the left channel is from the left side radio and the right channel is from the right side radio.

Use the links below to download 1 hour recordings of the contest. There is a small time offset as the recording was started 7 minutes before the contest began.

The sidetone on the recording has a low level so you may not always hear what I am sending. There was also some RF feedback when transmitting on one of the radios that makes the transmit audio sound rough.  Need more ferrite next time.

Time Audio File
Day 1 – 0000z Listen
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Day 1 – 0300z Listen
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Day 1 – 0500z Listen
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Day 1 – 0700z Listen
Day 1 – 0800z Listen
Day 1 – 0900z Listen
Day 1 – 1000z Listen
Day 1 – 1100z Listen
Day 1 – 1200z Listen
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Day 1 – 1400z Listen
Day 1 – 1500z Listen
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Day 1 – 1900z Listen
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Day 2 – 0600z Listen
Day 2 – 0700z Listen
Day 2 – 0800z Listen
Day 2 – 0900z Listen
Day 2 – 1000z Listen
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Randy Thompson, K5ZD, Named Director of CQ World Wide DX Contest

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CQ Communications, Inc. / 25 Newbridge Rd. / Hicksville, NY 11801 / Phone: (516) 681-2922 / Fax: (516-681-2926) / e-mail: w2vu@cq-amateur-radio.com

 

NEWS RELEASE

 

For more information, contact:

Richard Moseson (W2VU)

Editor, CQ Amateur Radio

(516) 681-2922 / w2vu@cq-amateur-radio.com

Randy Thompson (K5ZD)

k5zd@cqwpx.com

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 1, 2012

Randy Thompson, K5ZD, Named Director of CQ World Wide DX Contest

(Hicksville, NY) October 1, 2012 — CQ Contest Hall of Fame member and WPX Contest Director Randy Thompson, K5ZD, has been named Director of the CQ World Wide DX Contest, effective immediately. Randy succeeds Bob Cox, K3EST, who retired in September after 35 years at the helm of the world’s most popular amateur radio contest.

Thompson, 52, has been a ham since age 13. He is an accomplished contester, having multiple wins in the CQ World Wide DX Contest and the CQ WPX Contest, among others. He has also competed in four World Radiosport Team Championships. In addition, Randy is a past editor of the “National Contest Journal” (a post he has held three separate times) and a co-founder of the eHam.net website. He is a longtime member of the Yankee Clipper Contest Club and an instructor at K3LR’s Contest University. He has been Director of the CQ WPX Contest since 2008, coincidentally the same year in which he was inducted into the CQ Contest Hall of Fame.

“The CQ WW is the biggest event on the contest calendar,” commented Thompson. “I am honored to be involved and follow in the giant footsteps of K3EST. With the great conditions we are seeing on the bands, this year should be the biggest CQ WW ever! The first order of business is to have the team ready for the new 5-day log deadline and faster results reporting.”

CQ Publisher Dick Ross, K2MGA, said Thompson’s appointment marks the start of a new chapter in the history of CQ World Wide DX Contest, adding “The CQ management team looks forward to working with Randy as CQWW Director. His four years as WPX Contest Director have already demonstrated his ability to successfully and creatively guide a major contest, and we are totally confident that he will take the CQWW to even greater heights.”

Thompson’s appointment to the directorship of the CQWW creates a vacancy for director of the CQ WPX Contests. Anyone interested in taking on the challenge of leading a major contest should contact Randy at <k5zd@cqwpx.com>.

2011 CQ WW CW Contest K5ZD

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 45
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:   74    15       41
   80:  564    22       79
   40: 1186    33      107
   20:  942    37      114
   15: 1080    32      111
   10: 1093    29      109
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Total: 4939   168      561  Total Score = 10,434,906

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments

I wrote this to someone before the contest.  “Habit says prepare like I am going to do it all. Heart says give it a good shot, but only 30 hours. Mind says to spend time with family and blow it off.”

Steak dinner before the contest.  Sat down to some amazing conditions and got sucked into the contesting vortex.  I was out of the chair for 3 times of <3 minutes each during the first 24 hours. 

My line score at the halfway point was 3007/143/454 (5.2 Meg).  Never worked 3000 QSOs in 24 hours before – ever!  NN1N had made a statement before the contest that he wanted to make 5000 QSOs because no one had ever done it before (single-op from the USA). I started to have visions of such…

Took 25 minutes off at that point to join my family for the Thanksgiving turkey we had missed preparing on Thursday.  Made me a little sleepy during the 02z and 03z hours.  I think I could have powered through the night, but decided that 3 hours of sleep would make me better prepared for the high rates during the day. Looking at the other scores, a decision I may regret…

I sat down again at 1035z on Sunday morning and only got up for 2 more periods of <3 mins until the end.  Best part of all this, did not think about work for the full 48 hours! I needed that.

Unbelievable rates. Although the rate sheet this year looks very similar to 2000 when I made 4500 QSOs from this same station.  There must be something to that 11 year sunspot thing!

Very hard to do the second radio when running as fast as possible. I really tried to work the second radio hard on Sunday.  Realized I was missing PJ2T on 10m for a mult.  Spent an hour covering the full 150 Khz of activity – twice! Still couldn’t find them (did find a lot of other mults though).  Heard them on 20m so I called and asked for their 10m frequency.  They op replied that they had shut down on 10m.  Huh?  Oh well, I tried.

Biggest challenge all weekend was people not sending their calls.  I get the temptation to just send TU when you have multiple people waiting, but there are always people waiting.  Better just to get in a groove and send your call.  Some of the worst offenders had some of the shortest calls!  (D4C, you know who you are.)  I can only think of a few times all weekend when I did the TU thing so high rates are possible while still IDing.  It was so nice to tune across someone like 8P5A and instantly know who it was.

Thanks to everyone for sharing the best weekend of fun that is possible on the radio!

Station

Radio 1 – Elecraft K3 + Alpha 76CA
Radio 2 – Yaesu FT1000D + Ameritron AL-1200

Antennas:

160m – 1/4-wave GP, shunt fed tower
80m – 4 square
40m – 40-2CD @ 110′
20m – 205CA stack at 100’/50′
15m – 155CA stack at 66’/33′
10m – 7/4/4 at 90’/60’/30′
Mults – TH7DXX @ 40′ pointed south

By Continent

          160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total      %

    NA      37     75     92     53     44     46     347     7.0
    EU      28    457   1007    779    952    969    4192    84.9
    SA       5     12     19     32     29     37     134     2.7
    AS       1      6     42     46     32     14     141     2.9
    AF       3     10     15     21     17     16      82     1.7
    OC       0      4     11     11      6     11      43     0.9

Rates

QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band

 Hour  160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm    Off

0000Z  --+--   --+--  118/45    9/11    1/2    --+--  128/58    128/58  
0100Z    -       -     81/22   32/34     -       -    113/56    241/114 
0200Z   5/9      -     79/19    4/4      -       -     88/32    329/146 
0300Z  26/21   48/27    4/1     2/2      -       -     80/51    409/197 
0400Z    -    141/14     -      7/4      -       -    148/18    557/215 
0500Z  10/5    74/14     -      1/2      -       -     85/21    642/236 
0600Z   8/6    20/2    49/4     3/4      -       -     80/16    722/252 
0700Z    -      7/2   128/4      -       -       -    135/6     857/258 
0800Z   3/3    18/15   99/7    --+--   --+--   --+--  120/25    977/283 
0900Z    -      4/0    55/12    3/2      -       -     62/14   1039/297 
1000Z   5/2    10/10   13/5     3/2      -       -     31/19   1070/316 
1100Z    -       -      1/0    47/19   91/43     -    139/62   1209/378 
1200Z    -       -       -      7/5   132/10   38/23  177/38   1386/416 
1300Z    -       -       -       -     14/9   181/23  195/32   1581/448 
1400Z    -       -       -       -     10/6   178/5   188/11   1769/459 
1500Z    -       -       -       -    128/2    37/8   165/10   1934/469 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--  158/6    15/4   173/10   2107/479 
1700Z    -       -       -     91/7    71/0    14/9   176/16   2283/495 
1800Z    -       -       -    162/13     -     11/8   173/21   2456/516 
1900Z    -       -       -    131/4      -     21/16  152/20   2608/536 
2000Z    -       -      3/0    81/8    26/29     -    110/37   2718/573 
2100Z    -       -     77/4      -     10/6     1/2    88/12   2806/585 
2200Z    -       -    109/1     4/1      -      5/0   118/2    2924/587 
2300Z    -       -     67/1     8/5     8/4      -     83/10   3007/597 
0000Z  --+--   15/3     2/0     9/2    --+--   --+--   26/5    3033/602  25
0100Z    -     27/2    16/0     8/5      -       -     51/7    3084/609 
0200Z   6/2     2/3    27/5      -       -       -     35/10   3119/619 
0300Z   4/3    62/1      -       -       -       -     66/4    3185/623 
0400Z   2/3    57/0      -       -       -       -     59/3    3244/626 
0500Z    -     30/1    38/0     1/0      -       -     69/1    3313/627 
0600Z    -     15/1    57/0      -       -       -     72/1    3385/628 
0700Z   4/2     6/0     7/1     4/0      -       -     21/3    3406/631  23
0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    3406/631  60
0900Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    3406/631  60
1000Z   1/0     5/5     1/0     7/0      -       -     14/5    3420/636  35
1100Z    -       -      2/3    87/2    10/1      -     99/6    3519/642 
1200Z    -       -       -     32/0     8/1   128/7   168/8    3687/650 
1300Z    -       -       -       -      5/2   170/4   175/6    3862/656 
1400Z    -       -       -      1/0     7/0   163/1   171/1    4033/657 
1500Z    -       -       -      4/0    55/2    66/2   125/4    4158/661 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--  140/3    15/7   155/10   4313/671 
1700Z    -       -       -       -    118/1    14/7   132/8    4445/679 
1800Z    -       -       -     41/0    62/5    10/4   113/9    4558/688 
1900Z    -       -       -     96/3     8/4     6/3   110/10   4668/698 
2000Z    -       -       -     42/4      -     20/5    62/9    4730/707 
2100Z    -       -     37/0    11/5     5/2      -     53/7    4783/714 
2200Z    -       -     71/2      -     13/5      -     84/7    4867/721 
2300Z    -     23/1    45/4     4/3      -       -     72/8    4939/729 

Total: 74/56 564/101 1186/140 942/151 1080/143 1093/138

Best 60 minutes was 201 QSOs.  Personal best!

Second radio QSOs – 336

6 bands: 8P5A     9A1A     C5A      C6AAW    DF0HQ    DR1A     OZ4UN    PI4DX 

 PJ4A     VP2MWG   VP5CW

5 bands: 75 stations!

2011 CQ WPX RTTY AK1W (K5ZD)

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This was really fun!  Got lots of sleep and station is fully tested for ARRL CW next weekend.

CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest

Call: AK1W
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD
Class: SOAB HP

Operating Time (hrs): 19.6


Summary:

Band   QSOs
------------

80:     211
40:     373
20:     797
15:     506
10:       0

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Total: 1887  Prefixes = 744  Total Score = 4,203,600

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments

Didn’t plan to operate very much, but once I got started it was too much fun. Pulled up the all time records for W1 and kept operating to pass the next score on the list.  Ended up with a personal high score for WPX RTTY!

Only heard one signal on 10m all weekend.  LU7HN was calling CQ, but couldn’t hear me.

15m was very good. Suprised to hear how loud the JAs were on Sunday evening!

Great to see so much activity and the level of operating keeps getting better and better.

My best rate ever.  Had 146 QSOs in 60 minutes.  Rates really went up once I got really proficient at SO2R and could run on two bands at the same time.

 

Station

Elecraft K3 + Alpha 76CA
Yaesu FT-1000D + AL-1200

80m: 4 square
40m: 40-2CD @110′
20m: 5/5 stack @ 100’/50′
15m: 5/5 stack @ 66’/33′
TH7DXX @ 40′

QSO/Pref by hour and band

Hour    80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm    OffTime

0000Z  20/19   24/24   12/11   --+--   --+--   56/54     56/54
0100Z  19/17   48/37     -       -       -     67/54    123/108
0200Z   5/5    42/25     -       -       -     47/30    170/138    30
0300Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     170/138    60
0400Z  29/21   49/32     -       -       -     78/53    248/191
0500Z  21/15   58/40     -       -       -     79/55    327/246
0600Z  37/16    4/2      -       -       -     41/18    368/264    34
0700Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     368/264    60
0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0     368/264    60
0900Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     368/264    60
1000Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     368/264    60
1100Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     368/264    60
1200Z   3/2     7/3      -     13/8      -     23/13    391/277    38
1300Z    -       -      5/3    98/37     -    103/40    494/317
1400Z    -       -     41/23   89/35     -    130/58    624/375
1500Z    -       -     77/31   15/4      -     92/35    716/410
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0     716/410    60
1700Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     716/410    60
1800Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     716/410    60
1900Z    -       -     40/12   14/9      -     54/21    770/431    27
2000Z    -      1/0    79/31    7/4      -     87/35    857/466
2100Z    -     10/3    58/22     -       -     68/25    925/491
2200Z    -      7/2    69/29     -       -     76/31   1001/522     6
2300Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1001/522    60
0000Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    1001/522    60
0100Z   6/2     8/2      -       -       -     14/4    1015/526    50
0200Z  63/16   53/14     -       -       -    116/30   1131/556
0300Z   8/3     4/1      -       -       -     12/4    1143/560    54
0400Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1143/560    60
0500Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1143/560    60
0600Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1143/560    60
0700Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1143/560    60
0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    1143/560    60
0900Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1143/560    60
1000Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1143/560    60
1100Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1143/560    60
1200Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1143/560    60
1300Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1143/560    60
1400Z    -       -     55/16   24/9      -     79/25   1222/585    18
1500Z    -       -     83/26   58/9      -    141/35   1363/620
1600Z  --+--   --+--   77/20   65/16   --+--  142/36   1505/656
1700Z    -       -     51/15   36/7      -     87/22   1592/678    21
1800Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1592/678    60
1900Z    -       -     33/9    13/6      -     46/15   1638/693    24
2000Z    -       -     46/5    28/6      -     74/11   1712/704     9
2100Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1712/704    60
2200Z    -       -     55/14   45/14     -    100/28   1812/732
2300Z    -     58/8    16/3     1/1      -     75/12   1887/744

Total:211/116 373/193 797/270 506/165   0/0

Stations worked on 4 bands:

4O3A     9A1A     DF5MA    DL0CS    DL3TD    F2AR     K0ALT

KF5HHD   LZ9R     M0GVZ    N8DP     OM7KW    P49X     YU8NU

Audio – CQ WW CW 2010

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Audio Archive – K5ZD CQ WW CW 2010

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3830 Posting

 
                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: K5ZD

Class: SOAB HP
Operating Time (hrs): 42

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  163    15       57
   80:  725    24       90
   40: 1359    35      114
   20: 1209    35      122
   15: 1077    29      106
   10:   76    16       35
------------------------------
Total: 4609   154      524  Total Score = 9,117,066

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Wow, who would have expected a score like this with the conditions predicted for the weekend?!

Had planned a casual effort, but the activity and conditions were addicting! Once I started, I just couldn’t stop operating. Luckily my family is familiar with this addiction and knew to just ignore me until the contest was over.

Highlights:

Low bands were great. Knew it was going to be good when I called Europeans on 160m and they could hear me on the first call. No QRN here in the USA or Europe really helps the scores.

Conditions on Saturday morning. I woke up around 1130z and did some low band DXing. As I was finishing on 40m I moved the second radio from 80m to 15m. Whoa! The band was filled with booming signals. My first CQ at 1156z resulted in 201 QSOs in the next 60 minutes. I completely skipped 20m for the morning.

40m on both afternoons. No matter how many times I do WWCW from here I can’t get used to going to 40m when the sun is still up. Got there at 21z on Saturday and had 4 fantastic (100+) hours in a row on the same frequency. A little earlier on Sunday and almost the same result. Thus the big 40m QSO total.

80m Saturday night. I slept for two hours between 02-04z. Worked some DX on 160m and then found 3506 available. Had 3 hours straight of great rate (until ED9M decided it was his frequency). I don’t have the loudest signal on 80m so it was really nice to get so many QSOs. Definitely helped the score.

10 meters. Worked one European. Worked ST2AR for the only zone 34 heard all weekend!

Elecraft K3. This radio has the best receiver. It would have been impossible to hear so many of the weak stations, especially on 40 and 80, without it.

Russians and Eastern Europe. Fantastic activity from this area on all bands. I love the new Russian callsigns. Some of them reminded me of prefixes from long ago. UD, UC, RJ, etc.

USA record? The old USA record was from the year 2000 (8.7M with 4484/161/531) and included 1189 QSOs on 10m! The difference this year was the balance across all bands. A rare occurence.

Lowlights:

SO2R. Had 208 second radio QSOs. Rate was so high I had almost no time to work on the second radio. 🙁

Not operating full time. Since I had not planned a serious effort, I did not do any special preparation for food or sleep. Also spent much time the first night DXing. It was only at the halfway point that I realized the score was special and I should be more serious. The second day was full attention and motivation!

People who don’t send their call enough. I think I complain about this every year.

The increase in DX Cluster (and skimmer) use keeps making it worse. Part of the challenge of single op.

Station:

Radio 1  K3 + Alpha 76Ca
Radio 2  FT1000D + Ameritron AL-1200
Tower 1
40-2CD @ 110'
205CA stack at 100'/50'
155CA stack at 66'/33'
160m Ground Plane hanging from tower

Tower 2
6-el 10m @ 90'
80m 4 square wires hanging from tower
Shunt fed for 160m

Tower 3
TH7DXX @ 40' (always pointing South)

By continent:

          160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total      %

    EU     111    627   1190   1022    964      2    3916    85.0
    AF       4     12     20     25     18     11      90     2.0
    AS       3     15     46     66     11      0     141     3.1
    NA      41     58     65     56     38     22     280     6.1
    SA       4      7     19     32     35     41     138     3.0
    OC       0      6     19      8     11      0      44     1.0

Rates:

Hour   160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total    Cumm    Off

0000Z  --+--   --+--   79/47   --+--   --+--   --+--   79/47     79/47  
0100Z  10/13     -     61/25    5/4      -       -     76/42    155/89  
0200Z  15/8    60/42     -       -       -       -     75/50    230/139 
0300Z    -    106/22     -      6/8      -       -    112/30    342/169 
0400Z  15/9    43/6      -      2/3      -       -     60/18    402/187  18
0500Z  50/14     -     11/6     1/2      -       -     62/22    464/209 
0600Z   1/2      -    150/10     -       -       -    151/12    615/221 
0700Z  13/6    79/4     5/1      -       -       -     97/11    712/232 
0800Z  --+--   33/15   28/5    --+--   --+--   --+--   61/20    773/252 
0900Z    -      6/5    23/8      -       -       -     29/13    802/265  37
1000Z   2/1     2/0    31/1      -       -       -     35/2     837/267  36
1100Z    -      4/3    13/6      -      8/8      -     25/17    862/284  31
1200Z    -       -       -       -    196/36     -    196/36   1058/320 
1300Z    -       -       -       -    154/5     5/8   159/13   1217/333 
1400Z    -       -       -       -    133/13    6/9   139/22   1356/355 
1500Z    -       -       -    179/44    7/0     1/1   187/45   1543/400 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--  172/9     4/4    --+--  176/13   1719/413 
1700Z    -       -       -    128/10   16/8      -    144/18   1863/431 
1800Z    -       -       -     37/3    15/16    8/5    60/24   1923/455  25
1900Z    -       -       -     51/24   18/13     -     69/37   1992/492 
2000Z    -       -      2/2    19/9    17/10    2/0    40/21   2032/513 
2100Z    -       -    133/2      -      1/0      -    134/2    2166/515 
2200Z    -       -    137/4     6/2      -       -    143/6    2309/521 
2300Z    -       -    104/2    18/12     -       -    122/14   2431/535 
0000Z  --+--   16/3   101/5     3/2    --+--   --+--  120/10   2551/545 
0100Z   3/3    26/1    12/0     1/1      -       -     42/5    2593/550  24
0200Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2593/550  60
0300Z   4/3      -       -       -       -       -      4/3    2597/553  56
0400Z  28/7    51/2      -       -       -       -     79/9    2676/562 
0500Z   1/0   104/1    13/4      -       -       -    118/5    2794/567 
0600Z  17/4    93/0     2/2      -       -       -    112/6    2906/573 
0700Z   3/1    53/1    41/2      -       -       -     97/4    3003/577 
0800Z  --+--    2/2   103/0    --+--   --+--   --+--  105/2    3108/579 
0900Z   1/1     2/2    51/7      -       -       -     54/10   3162/589   3
1000Z    -      4/2      -       -       -       -      4/2    3166/591  60
1100Z    -       -     12/5    77/2     1/0      -     90/7    3256/598 
1200Z    -       -       -    170/3     6/0      -    176/3    3432/601 
1300Z    -       -       -     56/2   118/1      -    174/3    3606/604 
1400Z    -       -       -      4/0   172/7      -    176/7    3782/611 
1500Z    -       -       -      7/4   117/3     7/8   131/15   3913/626 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   66/4    19/13   85/17   3998/643 
1700Z    -       -       -     89/2     9/1     3/1   101/4    4099/647 
1800Z    -       -       -     84/5     2/1     8/2    94/8    4193/655 
1900Z    -       -       -     64/4     6/2    12/2    82/8    4275/663 
2000Z    -       -     57/0     8/0     2/0     5/2    72/2    4347/665  24
2100Z    -       -    125/4      -      9/3      -    134/7    4481/672 
2200Z    -       -     63/1    22/2      -       -     85/3    4566/675 
2300Z    -     41/3     2/0      -       -       -     43/3    4609/678 

Tot:  163/72 725/114 1359/149 1209/157 1077/135 76/51 

Stations worked on 6 bands: 
9L5VT  CR2X  DQ4W  P40C  PJ2T  PJ4A  VP2E/K1XM  ZF1A

Best 60 minutes: 204 (a new personal record for CW)

Thanks to everyone who make this contest so much fun!

2010 CQ WW CW Contest K5ZD

writeup 
                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: K5ZD
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: K5ZD

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 42
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  163    15       57
   80:  725    24       90
   40: 1359    35      114
   20: 1209    35      122
   15: 1077    29      106
   10:   76    16       35
------------------------------
Total: 4609   154      524  Total Score = 9,117,066

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments

Wow, who would have expected a score like this with the conditions predicted for the weekend?!

Had planned a casual effort, but the activity and conditions were addicting! Once I started, I just couldn’t stop operating.  Luckily my family is familiar with this addiction and knew to just ignore me until the contest was over.

Highlights

The low bands were great.  Knew it was going to be good when I called Europeans on 160m and they could hear me on the first call.  No QRN here in the USA or Europe really helps the scores.

Conditions on Saturday morning.  I woke up around 1130z and did some low band DXing.  As I was finishing on 40m I moved the second radio from 80m to 15m. Whoa!  The band was filled with booming signals.  My first CQ at 1156z resulted in 201 QSOs in the next 60 minutes.  I completely skipped 20m for the morning.

40m on both afternoons.  No matter how many times I do WWCW from here I can’t get used to going to 40m when the sun is still up. Got there at 21z on Saturday and had 4 fantastic (100+) hours in a row on the same frequency.  A little earlier on Sunday and almost the same result.  Thus the big 40m QSO total.

80m Saturday night. I slept for two hours between 02-04z.  Worked some DX on 160m and then found 3506 available. Had 3 hours straight of great rate (until ED9M decided it was his frequency).  I don’t have the loudest signal on 80m so it was really nice to get so many QSOs.  Definitely helped the score.

10 meters. Worked *one* European. Worked ST2AR for the only zone 34 heard all weekend!

Elecraft K3. This radio has the best receiver. It would have been impossible to hear so many of the weak stations, especially on 40 and 80, without it.

Russians and Eastern Europe. Fantastic activity from this area on all bands.  I love the new Russian callsigns.  Some of them reminded me of prefixes from long ago. UD, UC, RJ, etc.

USA record? The old USA record was from the year 2000 (8.7M with 4484/161/531) and included 1189 QSOs on 10m! The difference this year was the balance across all bands. A rare occurrence.

Lowlights

SO2R. Had 208 second radio QSOs. Rate was so high I had almost no time to work on the second radio. 🙁 

Not operating full time.  Since I had not planned a serious effort, I did not do any special preparation for food or sleep.  Also spent much time the first night DXing. It was only at the halfway point that I realized the score was special and I should be more serious.  The second day was full attention and motivation!

People who don’t send their call enough. I think I complain about this every year. The increase in DX Cluster (and skimmer) use keeps making it worse. Part of the challenge of single op.

Thanks to everyone who make this contest so much fun!

Station

Radio 1  K3 + Alpha 76CA
Radio 2  FT1000D + Ameritron AL-1200

Tower 1

40-2CD @ 110′
205CA stack at 100’/50′
155CA stack at 66’/33′
160m Ground Plane hanging from tower

Tower 2

6-el 10m @ 90′
80m 4 square wires hanging from tower
Shunt fed for 160m

Tower 3

TH7DXX @ 40′ (always pointing South)

By Continent

          160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total      %

    EU     111    627   1190   1022    964      2    3916    85.0
    AF       4     12     20     25     18     11      90     2.0
    AS       3     15     46     66     11      0     141     3.1
    NA      41     58     65     56     38     22     280     6.1
    SA       4      7     19     32     35     41     138     3.0
    OC       0      6     19      8     11      0      44     1.0

Rates

Hour   160M     80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm    Off

0000Z  --+--   --+--   79/47   --+--   --+--   --+--   79/47     79/47  
0100Z  10/13     -     61/25    5/4      -       -     76/42    155/89  
0200Z  15/8    60/42     -       -       -       -     75/50    230/139 
0300Z    -    106/22     -      6/8      -       -    112/30    342/169 
0400Z  15/9    43/6      -      2/3      -       -     60/18    402/187  18
0500Z  50/14     -     11/6     1/2      -       -     62/22    464/209 
0600Z   1/2      -    150/10     -       -       -    151/12    615/221 
0700Z  13/6    79/4     5/1      -       -       -     97/11    712/232 
0800Z  --+--   33/15   28/5    --+--   --+--   --+--   61/20    773/252 
0900Z    -      6/5    23/8      -       -       -     29/13    802/265  37
1000Z   2/1     2/0    31/1      -       -       -     35/2     837/267  36
1100Z    -      4/3    13/6      -      8/8      -     25/17    862/284  31
1200Z    -       -       -       -    196/36     -    196/36   1058/320 
1300Z    -       -       -       -    154/5     5/8   159/13   1217/333 
1400Z    -       -       -       -    133/13    6/9   139/22   1356/355 
1500Z    -       -       -    179/44    7/0     1/1   187/45   1543/400 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--  172/9     4/4    --+--  176/13   1719/413 
1700Z    -       -       -    128/10   16/8      -    144/18   1863/431 
1800Z    -       -       -     37/3    15/16    8/5    60/24   1923/455  25
1900Z    -       -       -     51/24   18/13     -     69/37   1992/492 
2000Z    -       -      2/2    19/9    17/10    2/0    40/21   2032/513 
2100Z    -       -    133/2      -      1/0      -    134/2    2166/515 
2200Z    -       -    137/4     6/2      -       -    143/6    2309/521 
2300Z    -       -    104/2    18/12     -       -    122/14   2431/535 
0000Z  --+--   16/3   101/5     3/2    --+--   --+--  120/10   2551/545 
0100Z   3/3    26/1    12/0     1/1      -       -     42/5    2593/550  24
0200Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0    2593/550  60
0300Z   4/3      -       -       -       -       -      4/3    2597/553  56
0400Z  28/7    51/2      -       -       -       -     79/9    2676/562 
0500Z   1/0   104/1    13/4      -       -       -    118/5    2794/567 
0600Z  17/4    93/0     2/2      -       -       -    112/6    2906/573 
0700Z   3/1    53/1    41/2      -       -       -     97/4    3003/577 
0800Z  --+--    2/2   103/0    --+--   --+--   --+--  105/2    3108/579 
0900Z   1/1     2/2    51/7      -       -       -     54/10   3162/589   3
1000Z    -      4/2      -       -       -       -      4/2    3166/591  60
1100Z    -       -     12/5    77/2     1/0      -     90/7    3256/598 
1200Z    -       -       -    170/3     6/0      -    176/3    3432/601 
1300Z    -       -       -     56/2   118/1      -    174/3    3606/604 
1400Z    -       -       -      4/0   172/7      -    176/7    3782/611 
1500Z    -       -       -      7/4   117/3     7/8   131/15   3913/626 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   66/4    19/13   85/17   3998/643 
1700Z    -       -       -     89/2     9/1     3/1   101/4    4099/647 
1800Z    -       -       -     84/5     2/1     8/2    94/8    4193/655 
1900Z    -       -       -     64/4     6/2    12/2    82/8    4275/663 
2000Z    -       -     57/0     8/0     2/0     5/2    72/2    4347/665  24
2100Z    -       -    125/4      -      9/3      -    134/7    4481/672 
2200Z    -       -     63/1    22/2      -       -     85/3    4566/675 
2300Z    -     41/3     2/0      -       -       -     43/3    4609/678 

Tot:  163/72 725/114 1359/149 1209/157 1077/135 76/51

Stations worked on 6 bands:

9L5VT  CR2X  DQ4W  P40C  PJ2T  PJ4A  VP2E/K1XM  ZF1A    

Best 60 minutes: 204 (a new personal record for CW)

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