ARRL September VHF Contest
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM
Station: K3CCR
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 6
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 7 2
2: 27 10
222:
432: 16 7
903: 5 2
1.2: 2 1
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 57 22 Total Score = 1,914
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
K3CCR is the club station at the Collington continuing-care
retirement community at FM 18OW in MD, just east of DC. I (N3UM)
did SOLP in the Sept. 2017 ARRL VHF.
As always I enjoyed working long-time VHF buddies on 2 and 0.7 m,
but my main interest this time was 903 and 1296 MHz QSOs. My home-
brew 903 and 1296 gear has been on the shelf since I moved here in
June 2014. I almost got it on for the 222 MHz+ Distance Test Aug.
5-6. BUT, we got a call Aug. 1 that the tower pro was coming Aug. 3
to put up the new 20/40 m. JK Falcon beam we had been assembling
for weeks, so 903/1296 had to wait.
For my 2 loop Yagis I pulled up a 30-ft. tapered rotating mast made
of 6-ft. Al tubes with a guy ring. The rotor rested on a barn-hinged
base spiked to the ground. All 903 and 1296 gear was at the mast base
in a rainproof plastic box. AC power, control, and 2 m. IF signals
were fed thru 75 ft. cables to the shack.
I was pleased to make 5 Qs on 903 MHz and 2 Qs on 1296.
Signals were strong to and from very high stations (K1RZ and W3IP)
but weaker with W3EKT and N3OC than they had been from my old QTH
~17 miles to the east. And, I could not hear W3APL beacons at all
on 903 or 1296: both were easy copy from the old QTH!
I think I have a terrain problem: no blockage nearby, but there must
be a big hill or two between here and FM19 to the NW in Montgomery
County. Maybe I will add one 6 ft. mast tube and move the mast to
the top of the 20 ft. hill behind the shack for the Jan. VHF test.
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