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Subject: [3830] SS CW K5ZD Single Op HP
From: webform@b4h.net
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Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 21:19:56 +0000
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                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW - 2022

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

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: MA
Operating Time (hrs): 20.4
OpMode: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:    0
   80:  307
   40:  180
   20:  308
   15:  273
   10:   43
------------
Total: 1111  Sections = 84  Total Score = 186,648

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

**My 46th consecutive year of more than 1000 QSOs in Sweepstakes CW.**

After 10,000 QSOs last weekend from V4 (contest + playing around) and late
return home on Tue night, I struggled to get motivated for this contest.  I
reassembled my station on Sat morning and decided I would see how it went.

The first 3 hours were great.  Maybe best ever. 

Not sure what happened to 40m. 10-20 were great, but 40 was long well before I
got there.  Retreated to 80 and it was good.  The band was quiet and long.

But, by 0300z, I could tell the activity was not high enough to avoid the grind.
 By 0500z I was dragging so I decided to break early and go for a longer period
of sleep than usual.  (I remember years ago when you almost had to do the first
12 hours solid to be competitive.)

Rates were not better in the morning.  Everyone on the live scoreboard seemed to
be locked into a slow-motion rate of about 30 per hour.  I decided to go for my
goal of making 1000 QSOs and call it good.

Easy clean sweep. Hard the hard ones out of the way early.  Just needed NL and
found VO1BQ on 20m Sunday morning.  Always a relief to get that one out of the
way.  Last California section was LAX.  Would never have expected that!

Mission accomplished.  I ended on a round number of 1111 QSOs with 2 hours still
to go.  

Was entertaining to watch the scoreboard as AA3B raced off to a big lead and
then N2NC @ N2NT slowly reeled him in.  Even when I was pushing at my hardest it
seemed that NC would make 1-3 more QSOs per hour than I did.

QSO/Sec by hour and band

 Hour       80      40      20      15      10    Total     Cumm    Off 
                                                                        
2100Z    -       -     19/18   61/30   10/3    90/51     90/51       
2200Z    -       -     10/2    89/10    4/1   103/13    193/64       
2300Z    -       -     50/3    40/3      -     90/6     283/70       
0000Z  --+--   20/1    52/3    --+--   --+--   72/4     355/74       
0100Z  52/4    16/0    13/0      -       -     81/4     436/78       
0200Z  83/2     6/2      -       -       -     89/4     525/82       
0300Z  49/0    11/0      -       -       -     60/0     585/82       
0400Z  49/0     4/1      -       -       -     53/1     638/83       
0500Z  29/0    18/0      -       -       -     47/0     685/83       
0600Z   6/0      -       -       -       -      6/0     691/83     48
0700Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     691/83     60
0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0     691/83     60
0900Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     691/83     60
1000Z   1/0      -       -       -       -      1/0     692/83     58
1100Z  20/0    18/0      -       -       -     38/0     730/83       
1200Z   9/0    27/0     2/1      -       -     38/1     768/84       
1300Z    -     16/0    22/0      -       -     38/0     806/84       
1400Z    -      6/0    37/0      -       -     43/0     849/84       
1500Z    -      9/0    20/0     4/0      -     33/0     882/84       
1600Z  --+--   --+--   24/0    11/0    --+--   35/0     917/84       
1700Z    -       -     31/0    14/0      -     45/0     962/84       
1800Z    -       -      2/0     3/0      -      5/0     967/84     53
1900Z    -       -      4/0    23/0    13/0    40/0    1007/84      7
2000Z    -       -       -      8/0    11/0    19/0    1026/84      3
2100Z    -       -      1/0    13/0     5/0    19/0    1045/84     60
2200Z    -     16/0    13/0     4/0      -     33/0    1078/84       
2300Z    -      7/0     2/0     3/0      -     12/0    1090/84     41
0000Z   8/0     4/0     6/0    --+--   --+--   18/0    1108/84     18
0100Z   1/0     2/0      -       -       -      3/0    1111/84     52
0200Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1111/84     60
                                                                        
Total: 307/6  180/4   308/27  273/43   43/4


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