CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2023
Call: KQ2M
Operator(s): KQ2M
Station: KQ2M
Class: SOAB HP
Class Overlay: Classic
QTH: CT
Operating Time (hrs): 24.0
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 72 11 38
80: 411 15 58
40: 522 21 67
20: 336 26 77
15: 607 30 87
10: 930 27 87
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Total: 2878 130 414 Total Score = 4,536,050
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Congrats to the ionosphere for nailing EVERY ARRL, WPX and CQ CW/SSB contest in
2023 with an M Class flare and/or CME! First time that I have ever
seen/experienced this in 50 years of contesting.
And even with a A=48, K=6, Solar Wind > 500 and Proton Density of 16.64 !!!,
the SFI of 194 RULED!
Bands got rocked twice and recovered FAST! But, all things considered, I would
rather have a SFI of 90 and K=0. QSB was exceptionally rapid and deep. Even
heard signal strength drops of 2+ s-units while a station was sending a single
LETTER!
Started 0107z Saturday and ended 1446z Sunday.
Best rates:
5 qsos in 30 seconds 2 times
7 qsos in 1 minute 3 times
262.8 last 10 qsos
Saturday 201 hour on 10 meters
Sunday 215 hour on 15 meters
CW Contests are much more fun when the bands are open to Zone 16. 15 and then
10 were HOT on Sunday but 20 was NOT. It's incomprehensible to me that I did not
work a Zone 17 station on 10, 15 or 20 ! although I worked TWO Zone 17 stations
in the worse conditions of the ARRL 10 Meter contest. And it is crazy when you
make more DX qso's on 80 than 20!
Sunday morning at EU sunrise, some of the Northern EU signals were so loud that
I had to remind myself that I was operating on 80! and while that happened as
the K PLUNGED from 6 to 1, 40 lit up too. But a lot of the DX stations were on
10 and 15 by then.
XYL came back from FL with a cold and then gave it to me. Between that, my work
schedule and lots of "real-life" changes going on, the best that I
could do was a Classic effort this weekend, especially when the 2nd amp stopped
working Friday AM. Fell asleep on my couch Friday afternoon ~ 3 PM and
intentionally did not set an alarm clock. Woke up Saturday 01z, ate some Turkey
and stuffing (with Pecan Pie) and sat down to operate at 10z thinking it would
just be for an hour or two. 7 hours later I took a 90 minute nap and then
operated for another 13 straight hours. LOL!
Missed a lot of embarrassingly easy mults like VK on 15/10, Zone 17 on 10, 15
and 20, etc., that I would have found with a 2nd radio. One radio operating
humbles you. ;-) Cndx were good enough overall that you could easily work
100+ countries on 10 - 40 with a 2nd radio but struggle to work 80 countries on
a band without it.
Greyline propagation is AWESOME! On Saturday, I watched KL7RA go from S2 to
599+10 in 20 minutes on 10 meters near local Sunset. Best ears award goes to
4W8X.
Lots of fun to operate this contest as always. Congratulations to the many
stations that had such BIG scores in this contest!
Tnx for the qso's and mults and Happy Holidays!
73
Bob, KQ2M
kq2m@kq2m.com
BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KQ2M CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Operator
HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT
0 ..... ..... 1/2 ..... ..... ..... 1/2 1/2
1 . 50/28 53/26 . . . 103/54 104/56
2 10/14 50/10 . 12/20 . . 72/44 176/100
3 6/7 34/0 46/7 15/15 . . 101/29 277/129
4 . . 139/18 . . . 139/18 416/147
5 21/12 66/5 21/0 . . . 108/17 524/164
6 12/8 62/17 . . . . 74/25 598/189
7 . . 138/8 . . . 138/8 736/197
8 ..... 3/4 31/13 ..... ..... ..... 34/17 770/214
9 . . . . . . . 770/214
10 . . 3/3 9/12 . . 12/15 782/229
11 . . 6/5 35/10 19/16 . 60/31 842/260
12 . . . . 130/27 27/20 157/47 999/307
13 . . . . . 162/28 162/28 1161/335
14 . . . . . 197/13 197/13 1358/348
15 . . . . . 188/2 188/2 1546/350
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 9/0 96/23 105/23 1651/373
17 . . . 37/5 102/20 . 139/25 1790/398
18 . . . 145/13 . . 145/13 1935/411
19 . . . 1/2 32/29 16/13 49/44 1984/455
20 . . . . . . . 1984/455
21 . . . 49/12 13/14 9/7 71/33 2055/488
22 . . . . 15/4 3/3 18/7 2073/495
23 . . . . . . . 2073/495
0 ..... ..... 5/5 ..... ..... ..... 5/5 2078/500
1 2/3 7/4 . 9/8 . . 18/15 2096/515
2 . . . . . . . 2096/515
3 . . . . . . . 2096/515
4 . . . 5/5 . . 5/5 2101/520
5 4/1 102/3 . 2/0 . . 108/4 2209/524
6 17/4 37/2 65/1 . . . 119/7 2328/531
7 . . 14/0 . . . 14/0 2342/531
8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 2342/531
9 . . . . . . . 2342/531
10 . . . . . . . 2342/531
11 . . . 17/1 48/0 . 65/1 2407/532
12 . . . . 201/7 . 201/7 2608/539
13 . . . . 38/0 122/3 160/3 2768/542
14 . . . . . 125/2 125/2 2893/544
15 . . . . . . . 2893/544
16 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 2893/544
17 . . . . . . . 2893/544
18 . . . . . . . 2893/544
19 . . . . . . . 2893/544
20 . . . . . . . 2893/544
21 . . . . . . . 2893/544
22 . . . . . . . 2893/544
23 . . . . . . . 2893/544
DAY1 49/41 265/64 438/82 303/89 320/110 698/109 ..... 2073/495
DAY2 23/8 146/9 84/6 33/14 287/7 247/5 . 820/49
TOT 72/49 411/73 522/88 336/103 607/117 945/114 . 2893/544
BREAKDOWN in mins/QSO's per hr KQ2M CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Operator
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