CQ WW SSB 2007
Audio Archive – K5ZD CQ WW SSB 2007 (K5ZD op)
Call: K5ZD Operator(s): K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Operating Time (hrs): 40 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 73 11 39 80: 265 29 84 40: 324 22 80 20: 1599 38 124 15: 1282 26 111 10: 106 13 38 ------------------------------ Total: 3649 130 476 Total Score = 6,328,458 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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| Time Segment | Audio | Log | QSOs | Comments |
| Day 1 – 0000Z | Listen | Log | 67 | Start off tuning 20m, then 40m |
| Day 1 – 0100Z | Listen | Log | 60 | 20m, 160m, 75m, then 40m |
| Day 1 – 0200Z | Listen | Log | 68 | 40m, then finally a run on 75m |
| Day 1 – 0300Z | Listen | Log | 49 | 75m, 160m, 20m, 40m, 160m |
| Day 1 – 0400Z | Listen | Log | 67 | Mostly 75m |
| Day 1 – 0500Z | Listen | Log | 39 | 75m, 160m, 40m, 160m |
| Day 1 – 0600Z | Listen | Log | 31 | Mostly 75m, 20 mins off |
| Day 1 – 0700Z | Listen | Log | 102 | 75m, then a good run on 40m |
| Day 1 – 0800Z | Listen | Log | 35 | Continue 40m, tune around, sleep |
| Day 1 – 0900Z | — | — | 0 | Sleep |
| Day 1 – 1000Z | Listen | Log | 11 | Back at 1045z, tune all bands |
| Day 1 – 1100Z | Listen | Log | 152 | Find a frequency on 20m and start running! |
| Day 1 – 1200Z | Listen | Log | 193 | 20 minutes on 20m, then find run frequency on 15m |
| Day 1 – 1300Z | Listen | Log | 168 | Great run of Europe on 15m (lots of QRM!) |
| Day 1 – 1400Z | Listen | Log | 97 | Run for 25 minutes, then start tuning for mults |
| Day 1 – 1500Z | Listen | Log | 155 | Find frequency on 20m and start running |
| Day 1 – 1600Z | Listen | Log | 136 | Continue running Europe on 20m |
| Day 1 – 1700Z | Listen | Log | 85 | 15 minute break, then tuning and CQing on 15m |
| Day 1 – 1800Z | Listen | Log | 120 | Find frequency on 20m, run and do second radio |
| Day 1 – 1900Z | Listen | Log | 113 | Run on 20m, second radio on 15m |
| Day 1 – 2000Z | Listen | Log | 108 | Run on 20m, fast search and pounce on 10m |
| Day 1 – 2100Z | Listen | Log | 126 | Run on 20m, second radio on 15m |
| Day 1 – 2200Z | Listen | Log | 63 | Tune 20m, then get a nice run of JAs/Asia |
| Day 1 – 2300Z | Listen | Log | 69 | Continue with Japan/Asia on 20m, 4L4WW on 75m |
| Day 2 – 0000Z | Listen | Log | 27 | Slow – grinding for QSOs on the low bands |
| Day 2 – 0100Z | Listen | Log | 20 | Even slower – still grinding |
| Day 2 – 0200Z | Listen | Log | 35 | Tuning on 160m and 75m |
| Day 2 – 0300Z | Listen | Log | 29 | Tuning 160m, 40m, 75m |
| Day 2 – 0400Z | Listen | Log | 8 | 15 minutes tuning all bands |
| Day 2 – 0500Z | — | — | 0 | decide sleep would be more useful |
| Day 2 – 0600Z | — | — | 0 | |
| Day 2 – 0700Z | — | — | 0 | |
| Day 2 – 0800Z | — | — | 0 | |
| Day 2 – 0900Z | Listen | Log | 9 | Back on at 0924z, work 3 LU on 75m, then tune |
| Day 2 – 1000Z | Listen | Log | 18 | Chasing mults on all bands, still very slow |
| Day 2 – 1100Z | Listen | Log | 101 | 20m opens and start running Europe |
| Day 2 – 1200Z | Listen | Log | 163 | Switch to 15m and start nice run |
| Day 2 – 1300Z | Listen | Log | 176 | Continue run on 15m, GW4BLE tells me 10m is open! |
| Day 2 – 1400Z | Listen | Log | 188 | Run on 15m, second radio on 10m working Europe |
| Day 2 – 1500Z | Listen | Log | 133 | Run on 15m, some second radio on 20m |
| Day 2 – 1600Z | Listen | Log | 104 | Run on 15m, move to 20m at 1653z |
| Day 2 – 1700Z | Listen | Log | 80 | Run on 20m, then back to 15m |
| Day 2 – 1800Z | Listen | Log | 80 | Mostly running on 20m, some second radio work |
| Day 2 – 1900Z | Listen | Log | 71 | Run on 20m, chase mults on 15m, then S&P on 10m |
| Day 2 – 2000Z | Listen | Log | 100 | Nice run on 20m |
| Day 2 – 2100Z | Listen | Log | 88 | Run on 20m, lots of second radio on 15m |
| Day 2 – 2200Z | Listen | Log | 54 | Mostly run on 20m, second radio on 15 and 40 |
| Day 2 – 2300Z | Listen | Log | 51 | Run on 40m for 30 minutes, then scan all bands |