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Subject: [3830] CQWW CW K5ZD SO(A)AB HP
From: webform@b4h.net
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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:00:53 +0000
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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2022

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

Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs): 42.2
OpMode: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:   88    15       51
   80:  504    22       87
   40: 1453    32      118
   20: 1103    38      127
   15: 1115    31      121
   10:  759    28      110
------------------------------
Total: 5022   166      614  Total Score = 11,311,560

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Another amazing CQWW CW.  So much more fun with sunspots and a bonus to have the
low bands be so quiet and open.

The 40m stack that I worked so hard on all summer had the top antenna fail a few
weeks before the contest. With help from KA1YQC I thought we had it fixed last
weekend.  Nope.  That had me a little down, but it is CQWW so decided to get on
and see how it all goes.

Wow.  The QSOs just kept coming.  Always enjoy the tension between multiplier
spots and the need to maintain a run frequency and the rate.  Managed to stay
focused on rate most of the weekend.

Once again I operated more due to the online scoreboard.  Something about seeing
how other people are doing that fires me up.  I was amazed to see K1AR killing
me on mults the first day.  At one point he was almost 100 ahead.  That became a
focus to try and catch him.  Finally did that and saw K1ZZ climbing the leader
board with an even bigger mult.  So started trying to reel him in.  Keeps my
BIC...

The top antenna of the new 40 stack didn't work, but the bottom one seemed to
play well.  When I checked it was always better than the old 40.  And the new
10m antenna arrangement was also a big improvement over what I had before.  So
felt much better about all the work after the contest.

Great start.  Took 2 hour sleep the first night so I could be fresh for the rate
on Sat morning.  It worked as I had 3 hours in a row over 200.

10m was slow to open, but once it did there was rate to be had.  I tried to
always be running on one band and chasing multiplier spots on the other. 
Conditions were perfect for trying 2BSIQ, but I just don't seem to have the
skills for that.

I have never felt so weak on 160 as I did the first night.  I could hear lots of
stations, but they could not hear me.  It was much better the second night and I
was able to rescue the multiplier total.

Not much from JA the first 24 hours, but better the second day.  I did get
JA3YBK to copy K5 on 80, but then he disappeared so missed my chanced.  Only two
JA on 40.  20 had great signals to Asia on Sunday evening and was even able to
call some BY stations and have them come back to me!  Even worked a bunch of JA
on 15m. 

I took a lunch break with 4 hours to go and figured there was no chance to make
it to 5000 QSOs.  Got a nice frequency on 40 and was able to S&P across 10,
15, and 20 to keep filling in missing band slots with the expeditions.  My first
ever CQ WW from home with over 5k QSOs.

Some of the pileups were a mess.  3B9KW was on 80 at his sunrise and had a great
signal.  In 10 minutes he managed to make 1 QSO because both EU and NA stations
would never stop calling.  I know split is not ideal in contests, but this was a
time it was necessary. 7Q6M was running split on 10m and was cranking out the
QSOs, but he would never announce that he was split.  So took some time to
figure it out.

Nice to have all the bands open so people could spread out.  There were still
plenty of people asking QRL? just seconds after I would finish a CQ, but there
were also long stretches where it felt like I had the frequency all to myself.

Thanks to everyone around the world who gets on the air and helps make CQWW the
best.  Special thanks to all the travelers who add to the country total.

Special thanks to W2ID for loaning me a K3S so my K3 could go in for repair. 
Was quite interesting to see how much "quieter" the K3S was than the
K3 due to the improved receiver.  Can't wait to try a K4 some time.

Station:
K3S + AL-1200
K3 + AL-1500
160m: 1/4-wave GP, shunt fed tower
80m: 4-square, dipole
40m: 40-2CD @ 110', 40-2CD @ 70'
20m: 5/5 @ 100'/50'
15m: 5/5 @ 66'/33'
10m: 6-el @ 100', 4/4 @ 60'/30'
South: TH7DXX @ 40'

WriteLog software + MK2R+

Rates

QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band

Hour    160M    80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm    Off

0000Z  --+--   --+--   77/36   40/45   --+--   --+--  117/81    117/81  
0100Z    -     20/20  115/14    4/1      -       -    139/35    256/116 
0200Z    -    110/21   33/14     -       -       -    143/35    399/151 
0300Z   7/11   68/32   21/9     8/9      -       -    104/61    503/212 
0400Z  10/7    11/1    44/25   11/10     -       -     76/43    579/255 
0500Z   3/1    47/6    15/8     2/0      -       -     67/15    646/270 
0600Z   3/1    61/6    35/1      -       -       -     99/8     745/278 
0700Z   1/0    12/5    98/12     -       -       -    111/17    856/295 
0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--    1/0    --+--   --+--    1/0     857/295  58
0900Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     857/295  60
1000Z    -       -       -       -       -       -      0/0     857/295  60
1100Z    -       -      7/4   114/31     -       -    121/35    978/330   5
1200Z    -       -       -     48/9   172/46     -    220/55   1198/385 
1300Z    -       -       -       -    194/11   31/37  225/48   1423/433 
1400Z    -       -       -      5/5   118/7    81/10  204/22   1627/455 
1500Z    -       -       -       -     15/9   183/16  198/25   1825/480 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   76/11   73/16  149/27   1974/507 
1700Z    -       -       -       -     68/11   33/15  101/26   2075/533  16
1800Z    -       -       -     82/6    19/23   10/7   111/36   2186/569   6
1900Z    -       -       -    125/7    14/13    4/3   143/23   2329/592 
2000Z    -       -    119/3     8/9      -      5/2   132/14   2461/606 
2100Z    -       -    122/1      -     10/7     1/0   133/8    2594/614 
2200Z    -       -    102/3    10/5     7/2      -    119/10   2713/624 
2300Z    -     16/7    80/1    13/3     1/2      -    110/13   2823/637 
0000Z  18/15   27/1    17/3    --+--   --+--   --+--   62/19   2885/656 
0100Z   8/5     8/4    13/5      -       -       -     29/14   2914/670  15
0200Z   6/7    45/1     3/1      -       -       -     54/9    2968/679 
0300Z    -       -       -      1/0      -       -      1/0    2969/679  60
0400Z   9/8    14/0      -      3/0      -       -     26/8    2995/687  35
0500Z   6/1    34/0    54/4      -       -       -     94/5    3089/692 
0600Z   9/4      -    102/0     8/3      -       -    119/7    3208/699 
0700Z   6/6    12/0    81/0      -       -       -     99/6    3307/705 
0800Z  --+--    2/2    17/3    25/4    --+--   --+--   44/9    3351/714  17
0900Z    -       -     16/0     4/1      -       -     20/1    3371/715  19
1000Z   1/0     2/2     7/0     1/0      -       -     11/2    3382/717  53
1100Z   1/0      -       -    122/1     4/3      -    127/4    3509/721 
1200Z    -       -       -     75/3    95/0     6/5   176/8    3685/729 
1300Z    -       -       -       -    107/2    89/4   196/6    3881/735 
1400Z    -       -       -       -      1/0   160/7   161/7    4042/742 
1500Z    -       -       -      4/1   103/3    42/6   149/10   4191/752 
1600Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   74/4    55/1     7/1   136/6    4327/758 
1700Z    -       -       -    146/2     9/0     1/0   156/2    4483/760 
1800Z    -       -       -     94/2    11/1     5/2   110/5    4593/765 
1900Z    -       -       -     37/0      -     17/4    54/4    4647/769  27
2000Z    -       -     91/0     4/1      -      3/2    98/3    4745/772 
2100Z    -       -     84/0      -      7/0     8/1    99/1    4844/773 
2200Z    -      2/1    65/2     3/0    29/0      -     99/3    4943/776 
2300Z    -     13/0    35/1    31/3      -       -     79/4    5022/780 

Total: 88/66 504/109 1453/150 1103/165 1115/152 759/138

Best 60 minutes: 232    26-Nov-2022  from 12:11 to 13:11

Worked on 6 bands:
9A1A C6AGU CN3A CR3DX CR3W CR6K DF0HQ DK3QZ DP6A E7DX ED1R EF2X EF6T 
ES9UKR FY5KE HB9IJC HQ9X II8K II9P IO3F KH6LC LA4C LN8W LY4A LZ9W 
M6T OT7T PI4CC PJ2T PJ4A PJ4K SM2U SP1AEN SP8R TK0C TM6M TO5Z V26K 
V47T VP5Y YT5A ZF1A

Most worked countries:

          160M    80M    40M    20M    15M    10M   Total

    DL       5     72    214    187    176    166     820
     I       3     20    111     70     74     51     329
     G       4     17     79     63     57     39     259
    SP       1     41     74     49     58     28     251
     F       3     11     62     40     55     41     212
    PA       1     12     47     51     59     43     213
    OK       2     23     64     45     41     35     210
    EA       2     12     62     47     45     29     197
    VE      15     38     64     18     14      9     158
*
    UR       1      5     21     17     16      2      62


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