K5ZD Announcements, CW

CQ WW CW 2014 Disqualifications and Warnings

We regret to announce the following disciplinary actions issued for CQ WW CW 2014.

Disqualifications

Entry (Operator) Violation
4Z5TK Unclaimed assistance
5B/RN3QO Unclaimed assistance
BD7LMD Unclaimed assistance
CO6LP Unclaimed assistance
DK3KD Unclaimed assistance
DL6KO Unclaimed assistance
E74Y Unclaimed assistance
EU6AF Unclaimed assistance
HG3M (HA3MY) Unclaimed assistance, Power >5W
II5E (IZ5ZCO) Unclaimed assistance
IK0GDG Unclaimed assistance
IK1WGZ Unclaimed assistance
IK2SND Unclaimed assistance
IK6FWJ Unclaimed assistance
LY7M Unclaimed assistance
OM3ZWA Unclaimed assistance
R4FD Unclaimed assistance
R6DA Unclaimed assistance
RA6GW Unclaimed assistance
RT6A* Time shifting to meet band change rule
RV3ZN Unclaimed assistance
RZ3QM Unclaimed assistance
TO7A (UT5UGR) Unclaimed assistance, unverifiable QSOs
UA1OOX Unclaimed assistance
UA3QGT Unclaimed assistance
UA4Z Power >5W
UA5B Unclaimed assistance
UT2DW Unclaimed assistance
UX4CR Unclaimed assistance
YT7Z (YU7EE) Wide signal

* R7AA, UA7A, RX6CW, RC7C, RN6AI, UA7C

Warnings

Warnings for suspected time shifting were issued to the following MULTI-ONE entries:

Entry
EA5RS
IR4M
OK5W
RM9A
SN2B
UA4M
UP2L
ZF1A

 

 

K5ZD CW, Log checking

CQ WW CW 2014 Log Checking Statistics

The log checking and results of the 2014 CQ WW DX Contest CW are now complete and have been sent to CQ Magazine.  The official results will appear in the May 2015 issue of CQ Magazine.

Some interesting statistics from the log checking for CQ WW CW 2014.

7,657 logs total
5,848,165 QSOs total
      213 different countries
   39,696 ( 0.7%) QSO with unique calls
   24,765 (62.4%) Unique calls busted during checking 
   58,372 ( 1.0%) Dupes
5,147,149 (88.0%) QSO checked against another log
5,008,392 (97.3%) QSO checked good when checked against another log
   78,460 ( 1.5%) Busted calls
   18,969 ( 0.4%) Busted exchange
   41,328 ( 0.8%) Not in Log

It is quite remarkable that we are able to fully cross check 88.0% of all QSOs in the logs received.

All entrants will be sent a link to their log checking report in the coming days. Use the report to compare your accuracy to the numbers above.

Median score reduction for all logs: 8.27%
Median Error Rate for all logs: 2.56%

(Median = 50% of logs are lower and 50% are higher.)

K5ZD Announcements, CW

Paper logs from CQ WW CW 2014

We continue to accept paper logs for the CQ WW DX Contest. A group of committee members and volunteers help type these logs into the computer so we can fully process them along with the other logs.

For CQ WW CW 2014, our volunteer typists included:

Call    Logs    QSOs 
LU5DX   6       1819 
W4AU    7        784 
VE3EJ   3        694 
US0LW   7        585 
G0MTN   5        493 
ZS4TX   4        489 
S50A    5        391 
HA1AG   1        217 
YU1EW   1         56 
K5ZD    2          7 
Total   41 logs  5,535 QSOs

We urge everyone to submit their logs in electronic format. We will continue to do our best to support submission of logs in any format — including paper.

Thanks to our typists for helping get all of the logs into the system.

K5ZD Announcements, CW, SSB

CQ WW Raw Scores 2014 – Updated

The Raw Scores for CQ WW DX Contest 2014 have been updated for both modes to include late arriving logs.

Raw scores are calculated before any log checking is performed.  All scores have been recalculated against a common country file. Final scores can be expected to change by 2-10% (or more).

View SSB scores – http://www.cqww.com/raw.htm?mode=ph

View CW scores – http://www.cqww.com/raw.htm?mode=cw

As of 2100 UTC 13 December the current totals are 8,277 logs received on SSB and 7,524 on CW.  More logs are always welcome and will be included in the results.