CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2019
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM W3GB
Station: K3CCR
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 200
40: 62
20: 316
15: 56
10: 2
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Total: 636 Prefixes = 434 Total Score = 754,292
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. N3UM and
W3GB operated Multi-2 in 2019 WPX SSB.
N3UM was away till mid-AM Sat, so W3GB started at 0Z. Our high
4-el. 20-m. beam had been fine Fri. AM, but at 0Z it had high
SWR. So, W3GB used our C3 tribander on a roof tripod for 20 Qs
on 20m, 00-01Z. He found 40m. slow, just 4 Qs, but did much
better on 80m, 110 Qs, 65 of them in a good run at 72/hr
0203-0257Z. He got 20 more Qs on 40m. before QRT at 0420Z with
444 Q pts and 129 mults.
Back on 1235-1535Z, W3GB got 92 Qs, 265 pts, and 76 mults on 20m.
N3UM came, got on 20m. 1540-1720Z, and got 61 Qs, 38 running. We
swapped lunch breaks and had 331 Qs at 1820Z.
We tried but failed to fix a confusing intermittent connector
fault seen on TDR 20 ft. from the shack in the cable to the big
20m. beam. That and supper breaks cost us some Qs. But then 2200-
0223Z we hopped bands, swapped breaks, and got 162 Qs; 16 on 15m,
30 on 20m, 23 on 40m, and then after 00Z, 90 Qs on 80 m.
Sun. AM W3GB was away; N3UM got on 1245-1540Z for 55 Qs, mostly
3-pointers on 15 and 20m. After lunch we were both on 1756-2033Z
for a final 72 Qs, all but 10 on 15 and 20m. Like last year, our
best bands were 20 and 80m; they gave us 77% of our QSO points
and 85% of our mults.
Our score was lower than in 2018 due to using backup antennas on
40 and 20m. and just 22 hrs. BIC vs 25 last year.
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