CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB - 2022
Call: V47T
Operator(s): K5ZD
Station: V47T
Class: SOAB HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 45.2
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 41 6 14
80: 617 17 71
40: 1385 26 80
20: 2009 34 97
15: 2339 29 93
10: 3111 25 96
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Total: 9502 137 459 Total Score = 13,526,816
Club:
Comments:
The contest began with a 5:45am flight out of Boston on the Saturday before. Met
up with N2NT in Miami and on to St Kitts. We got right to work and in 3.5 days
had fixed some antennas and added new ones. It was warm and humid. Then we
spent another day getting the shack arranged with new antenna switching
automation from Green Heron Engineering. I dropped Andy at the airport on
Thursday at noon so he could fly home and then join the K3LR team for the
contest.
I spent the rest of the day fighting software conflicts and peculiarities.
Things that seemed simple at home are not the same once you have taken them
apart and tried to reassemble them in a new environment.
I had to use DXLog because it worked with the Green Heron switching. It worked
flawlessly. The main issue was the op not being able to type fast enough or
falling asleep between QSOs.
I got good sleep during the week but was feeling the effects of the station
building efforts as the contest approached. Decided to power through the first
night and then decide if I would sleep the second night. In retrospect, I could
have skipped two slow hours for a 90-minute nap and made up for it during the
high rates on Sat morning. Really started to get loopy on Sat evening around
0100z. I kept zoning out in the middle of a QSO. Even so, it looks like I
worked more than a hundred QSOs that I don't really remember.
Bands were slow to open on Sat so got to spend an hour or so on 20, then 15, and
then finally to 10m. Kept working between 10 and 15, but probably should have
committed to the endless stream of stations on 10m. Sunday was better with even
10m open just 30 mins after sunrise.
Rates were incredible. QRM was the biggest limiting factor.
Some line noise had appeared on Wed afternoon. The power company came out and
was able to cut the lines until they found the source. It was down the road,
but the noise was radiating the most from the dead end pole at the station. It
was brutal on all bands, but I could usually find an antenna that could hear.
This did make me a bit of an alligator on 20m.
Always amazing how many YB stations call in. It seems that path is open across
all bands at any time. Even worked one on 75m.
Even though I had two radios, DXLog reported only 120 S&P QSOs. I was
almost entirely in run mode and used the second radio to scope out frequencies
for band changes.
On Sunday morning was starting to feel pain in my throat from all the talking.
Tried to use the voice keyer more, but still had to say all the callsigns.
Where were the Africans? Mostly worked EA8 stations + CN3A and a 5R. That was
it!
One of the new antennas we put up was a Double L for 160m. Hard to tell if it
is a good antenna or not because the band was so terrible. Worked all the mults
I heard, but that's not saying much since they were all in the Caribbean.
Hard to complain or make excuses about a contest where you make 9500 QSOs! Even
so, sure would like to have made it to 10k. A bit less line noise and might
have made it. High level contesting is all about hearing the weak guys and it
was tough at times.
Thanks to Andy N2NT for allowing me to use the station. He has done an
incredible amount of work to build and maintain the place. It is a dream radio
location on a 1200' hill just a mile or so from the ocean with horizon view from
North to East.
The station is very isolated. After the contest, I packed everything up and was
ready to come down to town, but the jeep would not start. V44KAI saved the day
by driving up and cleaning the corrosion off the battery cables. Whew. Would
have been a tough place to get AAA...
Looking forward to seeing some big single-op scores from South America and North
Africa to see what I may have missed. Doing 45 hours of running, you get a very
small view of the full contest activity and propagation. I had a blast doing
the contest and will be very happy with any result. Thanks to everyone that
called in.
The full contest was recorded and will get uploaded to my website in a few
weeks. You can enjoy my struggles with the QRM and line noise while hearing how
your station sounded on my end.
By Continent
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
NA 0 225 680 791 989 1343 4028 58.5
OC 0 3 34 31 23 10 101 1.5
EU 0 103 520 779 809 274 2485 36.1
SA 0 6 27 27 17 22 99 1.4
AS 0 0 36 39 55 7 137 2.0
AF 0 2 7 2 6 9 26 0.4
Rates
QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 302/57 1/2 --+-- 303/59 303/59
0100Z - - - 302/14 - - 302/14 605/73
0200Z - - 142/26 85/3 - - 227/29 832/102
0300Z - - 268/18 - - - 268/18 1100/120
0400Z - 37/20 152/31 - - - 189/51 1289/171
0500Z - 165/39 29/4 - - - 194/43 1483/214
0600Z 7/10 84/11 54/5 - - - 145/26 1628/240
0700Z - 35/2 86/8 - - - 121/10 1749/250
0800Z 3/3 11/2 37/3 1/1 --+-- --+-- 52/9 1801/259
0900Z 12/2 - 21/5 9/2 - - 42/9 1843/268 11
1000Z - 41/2 - 115/15 38/26 - 194/43 2037/311
1100Z - - - - 258/40 3/6 261/46 2298/357
1200Z - - - - - 290/44 290/44 2588/401
1300Z - - - - - 287/13 287/13 2875/414
1400Z - - - - - 266/13 266/13 3141/427
1500Z - - - - 109/7 126/4 235/11 3376/438
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 247/10 5/2 252/12 3628/450
1700Z - - - - - 240/9 240/9 3868/459
1800Z - - - - - 227/2 227/2 4095/461
1900Z - - - - 285/7 1/1 286/8 4381/469
2000Z - - - - 306/9 - 306/9 4687/478
2100Z - - - 40/3 182/4 10/5 232/12 4919/490
2200Z - - - 217/14 - - 217/14 5136/504
2300Z - - - 233/2 - - 233/2 5369/506
0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 242/4 --+-- --+-- 242/4 5611/510
0100Z - - - 63/1 4/2 - 67/3 5678/513 23
0200Z - - 199/4 - - - 199/4 5877/517
0300Z - - 193/3 - - - 193/3 6070/520
0400Z - 105/5 63/1 - - - 168/6 6238/526
0500Z 18/4 98/4 3/1 - - - 119/9 6357/535
0600Z - - 126/3 2/2 - - 128/5 6485/540
0700Z - - 9/0 3/0 - - 12/0 6497/540 50
0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 6497/540 60
0900Z - 40/2 1/0 - - - 41/2 6538/542 45
1000Z - - - 2/0 169/6 - 171/6 6709/548
1100Z - - - - 97/3 135/3 232/6 6941/554
1200Z - - - - - 237/5 237/5 7178/559
1300Z - - - - 7/0 188/5 195/5 7373/564
1400Z - - - - 182/2 28/1 210/3 7583/567
1500Z - - - - 23/1 169/1 192/2 7775/569
1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 244/1 244/1 8019/570
1700Z 1/1 1/1 1/1 - - 214/4 217/7 8236/577
1800Z - - - - - 262/2 262/2 8498/579
1900Z - - - - 48/0 168/0 216/0 8714/579
2000Z - - 1/1 44/2 179/1 - 224/4 8938/583
2100Z - - - 166/7 - - 166/7 9104/590
2200Z - - - 6/0 188/2 11/0 205/2 9309/592
2300Z - - - 177/4 16/0 - 193/4 9502/596
Total: 41/20 617/88 1385/114 2009/131 2339/122 3111/121
Best 60 mins: 312 between 29-Oct-2022 19:37 and 20:36
Worked on 6 bands:
AA3B AB3CX AG4Q D4Z FM5KC K1LZ K3LR K3WW K4AB K4ZW K8AZ K9CT KP3DX KP4AA N2LBR
N5OT NA2U P40L PJ2T PJ4G VE3EJ W3LPL WA2JQK ZF1A
Most worked countries
160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
K 192 596 726 887 1252 3653
I 8 78 123 93 55 357
DL 18 74 89 160 12 353
VE 18 52 49 85 79 283
F 7 46 68 52 51 224
G 10 36 79 77 18 220
EA 8 32 49 49 68 206
SP 7 26 39 53 125
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