cq worldwide dx contest, cw

call: k5zd
operator(s): k5zd
station: k5zd

class: soab hp
qth: ma
operating time (hrs): 32
radios: so2r

summary:
band qsos zones countries
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160:   22   8     18
  80: 289   16     70
  40: 726   30     93
  20: 753   34     109
  15: 756   29     101
  10: 628   29     96
------------------------------
total: 3174   146     487 total score = 5,834,994

club: yankee clipper contest club

comments:

a truly fun weekend!

with a heavy work travel schedule and trying to take two mba classes, i let my
wife talk me into not doing the contest seriously. operated the first 3 hours
and then went to bed. woke up early, did some dxing on the low bands and then
cqed for awhile. took the dog for a walk and ran some errands. worked more
guys. then went off to meet a classmate to work on a school project. came back
and had dinner. now almost 23 hours into the contest and i had already taken 12
hours off.

decided to see how the bands were. still good! decided i would stay up late
and see what i had missed by sleeping the first night. set goal of working 300
countries. finally made myself quit at 3am and went to bed. by now, the
contest bug is starting to bite. woke up 3 hours later and decided to crank up
the qso machine and see what i could do to get the qso totals respectable on all
bands. at the 24 hour mark of operating time i had 4meg. almost quit then, but
still having too much fun.

still 8 hours of the contest to go. can't stop because yccc president n1xs has
exhorted everyone to keep their butt in the chair. got this crazy idea that
maybe i could sneak into the top ten box. kept cqing and doing the so2r thing.
score kept going up. ended with an exhilarating run on 7000.6.

almost wish i had done the whole thing, but probably wouldn't have had as much
fun. winning cq ww is hard. you have to keep pushing all the time and make sure
you get good frequencies on the hot band. there is no time to rest or relax.
by sleeping the first night, i had no pressure and was able to go dxing when i
got tired of cqing. it actually helped me be more on the right band than if i
had been trying. not to mention how much more fun (and accurate) it is to
operate with enough sleep.

only ran into a few packet piles. most of the time i would just keep tuning.
did work to4ww on 40. had no idea where it was other than zone 39. turns out
to be an all time new one for me! (he was listening up 1-2 khz and it was
exactly the right thing to do. who says you can't work split in a contest?)

7s2e was still loud on 40m at 1130z. wow. on sunday morning, 40m was the best
i have ever heard over the pole to japan. 40 was wall to wall all the way up to
7100. my best runs sat night were on 7085 and 7076.

managed to work 2 ja stations on 80 saturday morning.

160 was funny. heard lots of stuff friday night but it couldn't hear me.
saturday managed to work a few eu, but it wasn't worth it. didn't matter
because 80 and 40 were so good.

overall operating was excellent. no real frequency fights. less than the usual
number of dupes. most people got my call right. didn't seem like i got spotted
as kh7d this year.

as always, amazing how many stations made big qso totals that i never even
heard. was really searching for n5tj at kp3z and only worked him on 1 band! he
had over 6000 qsos! worked vp9i, a45xr, and jy8yb on only one band. zd8z on 2
bands. heard a61aj on 160, but only worked him on 2 bands. that's part of what
makes this contest great. but also why packet is such an advantage of the
multi-ops. it is just too easy for the good stuff to get lost in the noise.

breakdown below. i assume rates were better than normal on day 2 because i
hadn't worked everyone on day 1.

qso/zn+dx by hour and band

hour   160m   80m   40m   20m   15m   10m   total   cumm
offtime

0000z --+--   --+--   --+--   71/58   11/6   --+--   82/64   82/64
0100z   -     -   85/56   24/12   2/2     -   111/70   193/134
0200z   3/6   50/36   4/1   16/14   -     -   73/57   266/191
0300z   1/2   50/10   11/7   4/4     -     -   66/23   332/214   10
0400z   -     -     -     -     -     -     0/0   332/214   60
0500z   -     -     -     -     -     -     0/0   332/214   60
0600z   -     -     -     -     -     -     0/0   332/214   60
0700z   -     -     -     -     -     -     0/0   332/214   60
0800z --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   0/0   332/214   60
0900z   -     -     -     -     -     -     0/0   332/214   60
1000z   1/1   13/11   14/13   -     -     -   28/25   360/239   22
1100z   3/5   3/3   10/5   28/5   58/23   -   102/41   462/280
1200z   -     -     -     9/5   164/20   4/6   177/31   639/311
1300z   -     -     -     -   21/5   127/38 148/43   787/354
1400z   -     -     -     -   79/9   51/7   130/16   917/370   5
1500z   -     -     -     -     -     -     0/0   917/370   60
1600z --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   0/0   917/370   60
1700z   -     -     -   63/9   5/2   32/24 100/35   1017/405   6
1800z   -     -     -   91/4   39/23   1/2   131/29   1148/434
1900z   -     -     -     -     -     6/5   6/5   1154/439   55
2000z   -     -     -     -     -     -     0/0   1154/439   60
2100z   -     -     -     -     -     -     0/0   1154/439   60
2200z   -     -     -     -     1/2   9/8   10/10   1164/449   47
2300z   -     -   35/8   20/3   13/4   4/0   72/15   1236/464
0000z --+--   --+--   81/18   7/5   --+--   --+--   88/23   1324/487
0100z   7/7   33/4   20/0   2/0     -     -   62/11   1386/498
0200z   -   35/6   28/4     -     -     -   63/10   1449/508
0300z   6/4   43/6   6/0   1/1     -     -   56/11   1505/519
0400z   -   17/3   67/4   4/2     -     -   88/9   1593/528
0500z   -   22/4   91/3     -     -     -   113/7   1706/535
0600z   -   10/2   62/0   2/1     -     -   74/3   1780/538
0700z   -     6/1   81/2   3/1     -     -   90/4   1870/542
0800z   1/1   5/0   8/0   --+--   --+--   --+--   14/1   1884/543   43
0900z   -     -     -     -     -     -     0/0   1884/543   60
1000z   -     -     -     -     -     -     0/0   1884/543   60
1100z   -     2/0   9/2   2/0     -     -   13/2   1897/545   38
1200z   -     -     -   101/9   30/8     -   131/17   2028/562
1300z   -     -     -     -   16/1   140/9   156/10   2184/572
1400z   -     -     -     -   14/2   132/5   146/7   2330/579
1500z   -     -     -     -   67/3   78/3   145/6   2475/585
1600z --+--   --+--   --+--   --+-- 130/2   8/3   138/5   2613/590
1700z   -     -     -   48/0   56/2   8/1   112/3   2725/593
1800z   -     -     -   109/2   18/7   1/0   128/9   2853/602
1900z   -     -     -   52/3   6/0   15/4   73/7   2926/609   10
2000z   -     -     -   26/0   8/7   5/4   39/11   2965/620   20
2100z   -     -   11/0   36/3   4/0   3/2   54/5   3019/625
2200z   -     -   35/0   10/1   14/2   4/4   63/7   3082/632
2300z   -     -   68/0   24/1     -     -   92/1   3174/633
total: 22/26 289/86 726/123 753/143 756/130 628/125


yes, as this score shows, contesting isn't fair. only the new england advantage
makes it possible to do this well part time when far more worthy efforts out
west have lower scores.

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此人最高每个小时177个qso，真牛