CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM W3GB
Station: K3CCR
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 33.4
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160:
80: 72 10 44
40: 177 18 73
20: 485 28 102
15: 264 21 92
10: 53 7 20
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Total: 1051 84 331 Total Score = 1,238,360
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. For CQ
WW SSB 2017, N3UM and W3GB operated Multi-Two Assisted. As two
retiree ops, we're ready to stay up late OR get up early, but
no longer do both in the same overnight.
We used our new JK
Falcon beam (2 el. on 40 m. and 4 el. on 20 m.) for the first
time in a DX contest. It did very well. On 40 m. we got 2X as
many Qs and nearly 2X as many mults as we did in 2015 and 2016
CQ SSB using a good high inverted V. On 20 m. we got almost 2X
as many Qs and a dozen or so more mults than in recent years,
and made single-band DXCC. We were surprised at our good 15
and 10 m. results with SFI so low.
We found it productive on
all bands to switch among clicking on spots, CQing, and tuning,
changing when the band map was worked out or the run or S&P rate
fell. Tuning found many loud CQing stations that had not been
spotted. Run freqs were scarce. We got a few fast but short runs,
100/hr but only for a few tens of minutes.
We were happy with our
final claimed score, our best in CQ SSB and better than N3UM got
in 12 years of SOHP. We worked 116 total countries. It was fun
to work rare and/or distant mults 5T, BY, FR, JT, SV5, and KH0.
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