2004 CQ WW RTTY Contest

K5ZD, Single Op All Band, High Power

By Randall A. Thompson, K5ZD
k5zd@contesting.com

Summary Sheet

              CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 2004

  Call: K5ZD                     Country:  United States
  Mode: RTTY                     Category: Single Operator
                                           High Power

Band         QSOs   Pts  State/Prov  DX   Zones
      ------------------------------------------
      80:    181    391      32      37     10
      40:    295    645      40      52     19
      20:    578   1512      37      75     29
      15:    545   1513      23      78     24
      10:     21     52       5       8      8
      ------------------------------------------
      Total: 1620  4113     137     250     90 Total Score = 1,961,901

(Above is claimed score.)

Station Description

Radio 1 - Yeasu FT-1000D + Alpha 76CA

Radio 2 - Yeasu FT-1000D + Ameritron AL-1200

Tower 1 - 100' Rohn 45G

40-2CD @ 110'

205CA @ 100' / 50'

5-el 15 @70' / 35'

80m Inv Vee with top at 95'

160m 1/4-wave GP with 4 elevated radials

Tower 2 - 90' Rohn 25G

6-el 10 @90' with 4/4 @ 60'/30'

80m 1/4-wave elevated GP with 16 radials

160m Inv Vee with top at 88'

Tower 3 - 40' Rohn 25G

TH7DXX at 40'

Comments

Wow. What a fun contest!

Was just going to play around and make sure the station was ready for contest season. Had a goal of making 800 QSOs or so. Was having so much fun I couldn't stop operating! Ended up with 20 hours, but lots of breaks.

Almost never break 100 QSOs/hour on RTTY and did it 3 hours in a row. All thanks to the extra QSOs from the second radio. RTTY contests are ideal for practicing and improving SO2R technique. You get to do all the practice of operating and switching, while the computer does the job of copying.

The RTTY ops just keep getting better and better. Only a few guys would call by sending their call 6 to 9 times. And if you are calling someone, why add "PSE" at the end???

Great to see so many of the new European calls. The future of contesting looks bright. We need more activity from the USA. Many easy multipliers were missed.

WriteLog is unbelievable. I just used the stock product and it seemed to be able to copy anything. And the SO2R support is superb.

Ratesheet

Hour       80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total      Cumm   Off
D1-0100Z    -       -      7/12     -       -      7/12      7/12  
D1-0200Z  38/32     -      3/2      -       -     41/34     48/46  
D1-0300Z  40/17   12/16     -       -       -     52/33    100/79  
D1-0400Z  36/14   28/23     -       -       -     64/37    164/116 
D1-0500Z  18/6    38/16    1/2      -       -     57/24    221/140    1
D1-0600Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     221/140   60
D1-0700Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     221/140   60
D1-0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0     221/140   60
D1-0900Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     221/140   60
D1-1000Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     221/140   60
D1-1100Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     221/140   60
D1-1200Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     221/140   60
D1-1300Z    -       -       -      1/2      -      1/2     222/142   60
D1-1400Z    -       -     26/27   91/28     -    117/55    339/197 
D1-1500Z    -       -     30/18   89/31     -    119/49    458/246 
D1-1600Z  --+--   --+--   26/10   80/13    3/4   109/27    567/273 
D1-1700Z    -       -     25/5    63/14     -     88/19    655/292    1
D1-1800Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     655/292   60
D1-1900Z    -       -     24/1     7/8      -     31/9     686/301   43
D1-2000Z    -       -     71/4    22/8     1/0    94/12    780/313 
D1-2100Z    -       -     33/9     2/0      -     35/9     815/322   34
D1-2200Z    -      1/1     1/0      -       -      2/1     817/323   59
D1-2300Z    -     18/10    8/7      -       -     26/17    843/340   40
D2-0000Z  --+--   15/3    25/6    --+--   --+--   40/9     883/349   33
D2-0100Z  14/1    20/4    25/2      -       -     59/7     942/356 
D2-0200Z   9/1    46/12   11/4      -       -     66/17   1008/373 
D2-0300Z  18/6    47/8      -       -       -     65/14   1073/387 
D2-0400Z   1/0    14/1     1/0      -       -     16/1    1089/388   42
D2-0500Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1089/388   60
D2-0600Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1089/388   60
D2-0700Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1089/388   60
D2-0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    1089/388   60
D2-0900Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1089/388   60
D2-1000Z   7/2    17/9     1/0      -       -     25/11   1114/399   36
D2-1100Z    -      5/3    55/8     8/1      -     68/12   1182/411   14
D2-1200Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1182/411   60
D2-1300Z    -       -     19/0    53/3      -     72/3    1254/414   16
D2-1400Z    -       -     31/6    62/6     2/0    95/12   1349/426 
D2-1500Z    -       -     62/3    37/4      -     99/7    1448/433 
D2-1600Z  --+--   --+--   36/2    17/4     1/3    54/9    1502/442   15
D2-1700Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1502/442   60
D2-1800Z    -       -       -      9/1      -      9/1    1511/443   13
D2-1900Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1511/443   60
D2-2000Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0    1511/443   60
D2-2100Z    -       -     17/3     3/2     8/10   28/15   1539/458    1
D2-2200Z    -       -       -       -      1/0     1/0    1540/458   60
D2-2300Z    -     34/5    40/10    1/0     5/4    80/19   1620/477 

Total:   181/79  295/111 578/141 545/125  21/21