Author: K5ZD
2011 CQ WPX RTTY AK1W (K5ZD)
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 ------------ 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
Audio Archive – K5ZD CQ WW CW 2010
This page allows you to search the K5ZD log from CQ WW CW 2010 and play audio of the QSOs that are found.
Enter a callsign 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. Use the time settings to control how much time before and after the QSO is included.
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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
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)
Audio – R34P WRTC 2010 Moscow (ops W2SC, K5ZD)
Audio Archive – R34P WRTC 2010 Moscow (ops W2SC, K5ZD)
This page contains the audio files from the operation of R34P during WRTC 2010 in Moscow. Read the full story of our WRTC experience as written by W2SC.
The WRTC rules allowed the use of two interlocked stations such that only one could transmit at any time. One of the requirements for the contest was that we record all operation in stereo. Listen to the output using headphones so you can hear what is happening on each radio in a different ear. K5ZD was operating the left radio and W2SC was on the right.
View the log: R34P.log
There are two ways to listen to the audio. 1) Search for your call and download a short wav file of the QSO. 2) Download an mp3 file of a full hour.
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The files below were recorded using WriteLog software in .wav format and then converted to mp3 format. WriteLog records the starting time of each file and that is the time shown in the table.
Note: When you click on Listen, your browser will download the entire audio file before it begins to play. This could take some time depending on your Internet connection speed. (Typical 60 minute mpeg file is 14Mb.)
| File Name | Starting Time | QSOs |
| ReceivedAudio007.mp3 | 2010-07-10 11:59:36 | 163 |
| ReceivedAudio008.mp3 | 2010-07-10 12:59:12 | 175 |
| ReceivedAudio009.mp3 | 2010-07-10 13:58:48 | 177 |
| ReceivedAudio010.mp3 | 2010-07-10 14:58:23 | 123 |
| ReceivedAudio011.mp3 | 2010-07-10 15:57:59 | 194 |
| ReceivedAudio012.mp3 | 2010-07-10 16:57:35 | 189 |
| ReceivedAudio013.mp3 | 2010-07-10 17:57:11 | 180 |
| ReceivedAudio014.mp3 | 2010-07-10 18:56:46 | 156 |
| ReceivedAudio015.mp3 | 2010-07-10 19:56:22 | 173 |
| ReceivedAudio016.mp3 | 2010-07-10 20:55:58 | 141 |
| ReceivedAudio017.mp3 | 2010-07-10 21:55:34 | 134 |
| ReceivedAudio018.mp3 | 2010-07-10 22:55:09 | 103 |
| ReceivedAudio019.mp3 | 2010-07-10 23:54:45 | 118 |
| ReceivedAudio020.mp3 | 2010-07-11 00:54:21 | 112 |
| ReceivedAudio021.mp3 | 2010-07-11 01:53:57 | 117 |
| ReceivedAudio022.mp3 | 2010-07-11 02:53:32 | 148 |
| ReceivedAudio023.mp3 | 2010-07-11 03:53:08 | 119 |
| ReceivedAudio024.mp3 | 2010-07-11 04:52:44 | 157 |
| ReceivedAudio025.mp3 | 2010-07-11 05:52:20 | 125 |
| ReceivedAudio026.mp3 | 2010-07-11 06:51:55 | 167 |
| ReceivedAudio027.mp3 | 2010-07-11 07:51:31 | 176 |
| ReceivedAudio028.mp3 | 2010-07-11 08:51:07 | 181 |
| ReceivedAudio029.mp3 | 2010-07-11 09:50:42 | 152 |
| ReceivedAudio030.mp3 | 2010-07-11 10:50:18 | 149 |
| ReceivedAudio031.mp3 | 2010-07-11 11:49:54 | 32 |
2010 ARRL DX Contest CW K5ZD
ARRL DX Contest, CW Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Operating Time (hrs): 32 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 114 47 80: 528 60 40: 1089 85 20: 1177 88 15: 1055 89 10: 38 18 ------------------- Total: 4001 387 Total Score = 4,645,161 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments
Simply, wow. I had forgotten how much fun good conditions can be!
My wife was traveling this weekend so I was a single parent of a 7 year old. Expected that to limit operating time so did no prep for the contest or have any plans to do more than play around. She did a great job of entertaining herself so I got to enjoy these fantastic conditions.
Spent almost all of the my operating time running. The Europeans just kept calling and calling!
Best hour was 199. Think that may be a new personal best on CW.
Had exactly 2000 QSOs at the end of the first 24 hours. Really pushed on Sunday to work 2001 QSOs on day 2!
Big surprise to find 15m wide open to Europe at 11z Sunday morning!
40 was fantastic. At times the JAs were direct path with no flutter. Had a number of UA9 stations call in on 15 through 80. Amazing how low the QRN level was. Even 160 had no static crashes.
Was very lazy on using the second radio. As a result, my multiplier is not very good.
The more I use my Elecraft K3, the more I love it. What a receiver! Paid for itself many times in the crowding on 20, 40, and 80. I never thought a radio made that much difference, but it does.
Thanks for all of the QSOs. Can’t wait to see how many records were broken this weekend. We may see 10 meters open, but we probably won’t see the low bands be this good at the same time. But, that’s what keeps us coming back!
Stations worked on 6 bands: 6Y1LZ, EF8M, KP2M, PJ2T, PJ4X, V31TP, ZF2AM Had 31 stations on 5 bands including many Europeans.
By Continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 98 501 986 1069 959 0 3613 90.3
NA 11 11 17 21 18 13 91 2.3
SA 2 5 12 19 26 22 86 2.1
AS 0 4 52 43 29 0 128 3.2
AF 3 4 11 13 14 3 48 1.2
OC 0 3 11 12 9 0 35 0.9
Rate Sheet
QSO/DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off D1-00Z --+-- --+-- 146/43 --+-- --+-- --+-- 146/43 146/43 D1-01Z - - 82/9 18/9 - - 100/18 246/61 D1-02Z - 132/28 - 5/1 - - 137/29 383/90 D1-03Z 26/22 24/5 40/4 - - - 90/31 473/121 D1-04Z - - 17/0 - - - 17/0 490/121 51 D1-05Z 37/12 7/1 3/0 1/1 - - 48/14 538/135 6 D1-06Z - 135/10 - - - - 135/10 673/145 D1-07Z 2/1 10/3 129/1 - - - 141/5 814/150 D1-08Z --+-- --+-- 36/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 36/0 850/150 46 D1-09Z - - - - - - 0/0 850/150 60 D1-10Z - - - - - - 0/0 850/150 60 D1-11Z - - - - - - 0/0 850/150 60 D1-12Z - - 7/3 - 5/5 - 12/8 862/158 48 D1-13Z - - - - 189/35 - 189/35 1051/193 D1-14Z - - - - 170/5 3/2 173/7 1224/200 D1-15Z - - - 86/28 35/1 5/5 126/34 1350/234 12 D1-16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1350/234 60 D1-17Z - - - 136/8 24/0 4/2 164/10 1514/244 4 D1-18Z - - - 146/8 29/17 - 175/25 1689/269 D1-19Z - - - 132/1 5/1 17/6 154/8 1843/277 D1-20Z - - - 61/4 13/6 - 74/10 1917/287 21 D1-21Z - - - - - - 0/0 1917/287 60 D1-22Z - - - - - - 0/0 1917/287 60 D1-23Z - - 45/2 34/10 5/1 - 84/13 2001/300 7 D2-00Z 2/0 --+-- 92/5 4/2 --+-- --+-- 98/7 2099/307 D2-01Z 8/3 10/0 - - - - 18/3 2117/310 33 D2-02Z - - - - - - 0/0 2117/310 60 D2-03Z - 53/4 - - - - 53/4 2170/314 28 D2-04Z 15/2 60/3 11/3 - - - 86/8 2256/322 D2-05Z 18/3 66/0 6/1 - - - 90/4 2346/326 D2-06Z 6/4 23/1 63/1 - - - 92/6 2438/332 D2-07Z - 6/3 102/2 - - - 108/5 2546/337 D2-08Z --+-- 1/1 59/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 60/4 2606/341 23 D2-09Z - - - - - - 0/0 2606/341 60 D2-10Z - - - - - - 0/0 2606/341 60 D2-11Z - 1/1 12/3 - 128/5 - 141/9 2747/350 6 D2-12Z - - 1/0 1/0 179/4 - 181/4 2928/354 D2-13Z - - - 6/0 167/3 - 173/3 3101/357 D2-14Z - - - 59/2 70/3 - 129/5 3230/362 D2-15Z - - - 146/0 8/0 - 154/0 3384/362 D2-16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 41/0 3/0 --+-- 44/0 3428/362 40 D2-17Z - - - 79/1 4/1 5/2 88/4 3516/366 10 D2-18Z - - - 86/2 7/0 4/1 97/3 3613/369 D2-19Z - - - 100/5 6/1 - 106/6 3719/375 D2-20Z - - - 20/0 5/1 - 25/1 3744/376 41 D2-21Z - - 60/1 11/3 3/0 - 74/4 3818/380 8 D2-22Z - - 139/4 - - - 139/4 3957/384 D2-23Z - - 39/0 5/3 - - 44/3 4001/387 30 Total: 114/47 528/60 1089/85 1177/88 1055/89 38/18
Audio – CQ WW CW 2009
Audio Archive – K5ZD CQ WW CW 2009 (K5ZD op)
Call: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Operating Time (hrs): 45 Radios: SO2R Summary (after log checking): Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 94 15 45 80: 479 21 88 40: 1215 31 114 20: 1444 33 117 15: 696 23 99 10: 29 9 17 ------------------------------ Total: 3957 132 480 Total Score = 6,845,832 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Equipment: FT-1000D + Alpha 76CA, FT-1000D + AL-1200
Antennas: 10m - 6-el @ 90', 15m - 5/5 @ 66'/33', 20m - 5/5 @ 100'/50' 40m - 2-el @ 110', 80m - 4 square, 160m - GP, shunt fed tower
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2009 CQ WW CW Contest K5ZD
K5ZD, Single Op All Band, High Power
By Randall A. Thompson, K5ZD
k5zd@contesting.com
Summary Sheet
Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP QTH: W1 Operating Time (hrs): 46 Location: USA Radios: SO2R Summary: Compare Scores Band QSOs Zones Countries 160: 94 15 45 80: 482 21 88 40: 1228 31 114 20: 1447 33 117 15: 699 23 99 10: 29 9 17 Total: 3979 132 480 Total Score 6,963,336 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Commentary
That’s it. I am never doing 40+ hour SOAB again. Really.
A new Elecraft K3 arrived on Tuesday at 5pm. Wired it into the station, asked
friends some stupid questions, configured the settings, then left for
Thanksgiving at the inlaws. Back home 3 hours before the contest.
The K3 worked great all weekend. Incredible receiver. Actually made 40 meters
fun! Wish I had bought one of these a year ago. Now I have to figure out a way
to get a second one.
Contest was frustrating on Friday evening. It was a struggle from 02 to 06z. Normally 160m is one my strengths, but I couldn’t bust a pileup for anything. Lots of guys CQed in my face. Almost the same on 80m during this period. I thought maybe one of the vertical elements of the 80m 4 square had fallen down. As we got closer to Eu sunrise, things began to improve and almost return to normal. Still couldn’t get answers to CQs so did lots and
lots of S&P on 80 and 160 all weekend.
40m was good to Europe after their sunrise. Then was surprised to find loud signals from Europe on 20m as early as 0930z on Saturday. That’s 2 hours before our sunrise! Rate went from good to incredible once the sun came up.
15m on Sat was good, but only to Germany and south. Nothing east of there.
With the receiver of the K3, was able to get 7010 on Sat afternoon and had a
very good run.
Began to get the signs of a migraine headache around 23z. Immediately took 4
Ibuprofen and amazingly, it cleared up after an hour.
As usual, at 00z, the bands all turned to mush and there was virtually nothing
to do for the next few hours. Kept thinking I should sleep and finally took a
nap from 0425z to 0545z. Was kind of disoriented when I woke up and forgot
what contest I was in. Started working everyone (including USA stations)
thinking I was getting points. Head finally cleared after about 30 mins.
No luck with 40 at Sunrise or having 20 open early. So the 09 to 11z hours was
pretty slow. Only surprise was how loud the JAs got on 40m.
Was running on 20 when I heard 15m start to open. Was really hoping conditions
would be better than Sat to help the score. Tried a test CQ on 15m at 1230z and
immediately an S9+ RU1A called in. Wow. Finished the QSO and had 3 guys
calling. Started a great run of weak signals, but great rate. I could watch
the sunset across Europe and guys were all from right along the grayline. Very
fun.
Unfortunately, once 15m closed, 20m was less than an hour behind it. That left
the last 6 hours of the contest as a battle of wills. Everytime I would think
about quitting, I would remember K1DG was my competition and I HATE losing more
than I needed sleep. So kept pushing.
Had a great run on 40m start very early – 1940z. That helped the score a lot.
Finished the last hour scratching for QSOs on 80m. Still couldn’t get answers
to CQs, but was able to call guys. 4L0A and T70A were cool pileups to break.
Given my troubles on the low bands, I was sure that my competition surrounded
by salt water (K1DG) was surely going to beat me. What a thrill to find we are
in a virtual tie. He killed me on the low bands, but I made up for it on the
high bands. Both of us really pounded the second radio for multipliers. This
is what radio contesting is supposed to be about. Local competition – two
similar stations and guys with a lot of respect for each other. I HATE losing,
but I absolutely trust the CQ WW log checking so will be happy however it comes
out.
No big frequency fights this contest.
I like the guys that don’t send their report until you have their call. At
least you know when you get it right. I don’t like the guys who don’t correct
their call when you send it wrong.
Wish the DXpeditions would send their call more often. We aren’t all using
packet. 8P5A was great at this.
Some numbers:
QSOs By Continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 48 375 1011 1240 572 0 3246 81.6
AF 4 12 24 27 14 0 81 2.0
AS 0 4 29 45 5 0 83 2.1
SA 4 12 24 44 47 17 148 3.7
NA 35 75 128 81 52 12 383 9.6
OC 3 4 12 10 9 0 38 1.0
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
Hr 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
00Z ----- 1/2 101/70 ----- ----- ----- 102/72 102/72
01Z - 14/16 88/14 9/12 - - 111/42 213/114
02Z - 36/19 62/9 - - - 98/28 311/142
03Z 23/25 27/9 6/2 - - - 56/36 367/178
04Z 14/10 41/10 - - - - 55/20 422/198
05Z 11/8 45/3 8/4 5/7 - - 69/22 491/220
06Z - 46/4 34/10 - - - 80/14 571/234
07Z 11/4 47/3 12/1 - - - 70/8 641/242
08Z --+-- 17/11 76/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 93/13 734/255
09Z 2/2 7/5 59/10 8/13 - - 76/30 810/285
10Z - 5/3 9/3 98/23 - - 112/29 922/314
11Z 2/0 1/0 2/0 137/7 4/7 - 146/14 1068/328
12Z - - - 193/10 - - 193/10 1261/338
13Z - - - 94/3 105/25 - 199/28 1460/366
14Z - - - 83/9 42/28 - 125/37 1585/403
15Z - - - 128/3 9/6 - 137/9 1722/412
16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 102/6 7/6 7/10 116/22 1838/434
17Z - - - 73/6 16/7 11/7 100/20 1938/454
18Z - - - 46/2 21/13 - 67/15 2005/469
19Z - - - 51/18 3/0 4/5 58/23 2063/492
20Z - - 62/0 11/5 9/3 - 82/8 2145/500
21Z - - 108/3 6/6 2/0 - 116/9 2261/509
22Z - - 78/3 16/4 - - 94/7 2355/516
23Z - 9/3 23/0 13/2 - - 45/5 2400/521
00Z 6/3 22/3 4/0 1/0 --+-- --+-- 33/6 2433/527 10
01Z - - 57/2 8/1 - - 65/3 2498/530 13
02Z - 15/2 54/0 - - - 69/2 2567/532
03Z 10/2 11/2 4/1 - - - 25/5 2592/537
04Z - - 8/1 - - - 8/1 2600/538 37
05Z - - 9/0 - - - 9/0 2609/538 49
06Z 9/3 17/1 5/0 - - - 31/4 2640/542
07Z 3/2 44/0 5/0 - - - 52/2 2692/544
08Z --+-- 35/4 10/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 45/7 2737/551
09Z - 7/1 25/1 1/1 - - 33/3 2770/554
10Z 2/1 2/2 6/1 8/1 - - 18/5 2788/559
11Z - 3/2 3/0 76/1 - - 82/3 2870/562
12Z - - - 65/0 86/9 - 151/9 3021/571
13Z - - - 2/0 154/5 - 156/5 3177/576
14Z - - - 10/2 110/3 - 120/5 3297/581
15Z - - - 11/1 89/5 - 100/6 3397/587
16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 101/3 17/1 --+-- 118/4 3515/591
17Z - - - 63/1 11/3 3/2 77/6 3592/597
18Z - - - 22/3 9/0 3/1 34/4 3626/601
19Z - - 31/1 1/0 - 1/1 33/2 3659/603
20Z - - 113/2 - 1/1 - 114/3 3773/606
21Z - - 83/0 1/0 4/0 - 88/0 3861/606
22Z - - 69/2 4/0 - - 73/2 3934/608
23Z 1/0 30/4 14/0 - - - 45/4 3979/612
Totals:
94/60 482/109 1228/145 1447/150 699/122 29/26
Most worked countries
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
DL 5 55 153 227 138 578
G 3 37 53 92 59 244
OK 4 24 77 81 32 218
I 1 12 70 67 38 188
UA 15 60 103 9 187
F 5 23 48 56 35 167
SP 18 53 55 28 154
UR 2 11 67 62 11 153
VE 22 42 44 34 10 1 153
Worked on 6 bands: 6Y1V, 8P5A, HC8GR, KP2M, P40W, VQ5V
Worked on 5 bands: 21 stations
Best 60 mins rate: 202 (1259-1358z on Sat)
I think that is a personal best for me on CW!
I am never doing this again. Really.
Summary of how to improve contesting
Some suggestions and ideas as a result of my question about how to improve contest activity. Some were received privately.
> Articles describing the favorable experiences of new contesters might help. The place for these would be in QST or on eHam, not NCJ, and they should probably be run about twice per year. The articles should also highlight that you don’t have to be a serious entrant to have fun, since I’d bet that many folks have the impression that there’s little point in competing unless you go all out.
> Use of contest logs for award credit
> Teams comprised of some predefined number of hams (three? five?) would be allowed to pool their results on an hour-by-hour basis, with the best score for any clock hour being used toward the team score … kind of like a scramble in golf.
> The great majority of potential contesters are not new hams, they are new contesters. It might be more effective to let hams claim Rookie status who had not entered the contest within the last three years.
> More categories that allow people the chance to compete against others with same station (or avoid competing with others with bigger stations).
> Time limited categories that would allow those who don’t have the full weekend to still have a competitive experience. Suggested times were 3 hours, 6 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours, and 24 hours. Or follow German Markrothen RTTY Contest. In that one the entire contest runs 8 hours on, 8 off, 8 on, 8 off, and 8 on. So it is a 24 hour contest spread out over 40 hours with all the 24 hours of the solar day being part of the contest.
One group was in favor of a time-based category. Another group liked a “best x hours” of the full effort.
> Too much focus on winners. Make “performance results” that recognize different achievements within the contest. E.g., Who worked 5BWAC in the shortest time, Who worked most long Distance DX in the shortest time, etc. Categories would revolve around Continents, Zones, Countries, Prefixes, QSOs, All bands, Low bands, High bands, three bands, single bands QSO distance, Time.
> Define a separate category “Best of x hours.” I know a few contests already embrace this philosophy in one form or another. BARTG RTTY is one I believe. You can operate the entire event if you want or a 6-hour window and submit the abbreviated event as your entry for the contest.
> Allow the contesters to select their “best rate” from their entire > contest effort. There might be different “time categories”, i.e., 0-3 hours, 3-6 hours, etc. A contester can then compete against others who have limited time resources and gain recognition of their efforts.
> Give top 3 plaques on all mayor categories and ask for donations with log’s paypal suggested with a limit of $5 US.
> Have decent write ups… Move the detailed results entirely to the web > and have something limited for written media.
> European VHF-contesting uses the .edi-log-format which has lines for power, antenna height, height asl and antennas. So the results can easily contain those informations.
http://www.darc.de/referate/ukw-funksport/ukw/mai-2009a.txt
Randy Thompson, K5ZD
(This originally appeared on the cq-contest mailing list, June 20, 2009)
Everything not specifically prohibited is mandatory
In a post to cq-contest, Hans K0HB made the suggestion for a new universal contest rule:
"Rule XXII: Everything not specifically prohibited is mandatory."
During my ethics presentation at CTU in Dayton, I specifically made the opposite point.
Contest sponsors have deliberately chosen to keep rules relatively simple. Perhaps to follow historical precedent or keep the text to something that will fit in a magazine. To fully cover every situation, our rules would look like Formula 1 car racing or top level sail boat racing and be hundreds of pages long.
We would then need judges, a commissioner, and an organization to manage the rules (not to mention more lawyers). We don’t have a big TV contract or big $$ sponsors, so contesting remains largely an honor sport.
This means participants have to consider two elements when making a decision about whether an action is permitted or not. 1) Is it in the rules? These are the “easy” ones. 2) Is there an accepted norm that deals with the issue? This is what keeps the cq-contest reflector humming.
The challenge for contesting is that the accepted norms vary from one culture to another, from one local group to another, and they change over time! Many times they are passed through word of mouth. Remember the game of telephone where you give a sentence to one person and then see the final result after it has been through many retellings?
At CTU, I suggested norms in contesting have 3 main objectives:
- Just because its not specified in the written rules doesn’t mean you can do it!
- Keep the contest on the radio and within the contest period
- Don’t give or take unfair advantage
I am sure Hans was speaking tongue in cheek, but I really would prefer to continue enjoying a competition where people are following the rules and not always trying to find the outside of the envelope.
Randy Thompson, K5ZD
(This post was originally made to cq-contest reflector, June 6, 2009)