ARRL June VHF Contest - 2019
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM
Station: K3CCR
Class: SO 3Band LP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 4.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6:
2: 26 12
222:
432: 9 6
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 35 18 Total Score = 792
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 SO 3-Band in the June 2019 ARRL VHF contest. I was only on 2
and 0.7 meters because we have no effective 6 m. antenna right now.
As always I enjoyed greeting and chatting with some VHF
buddies of long standing. But, there were lots more I never
heard. SSB and CW activity in VHF contests is down noticeably in
recent years. This decline started well before FT8 and FT4 came
into use on VHF. I only made 35 QSOs, vs 2 or 3 times that many
in past VHF tests with no E skip.
At the start Sat. I got 13 Qs and 9 grid mults in the first 1.5 hr,
18-1926Z Sat, then went QRT after just 1 more Q in 18 min. After
supper I got 7 Qs and 4 mults in 1 hr, Sun. AM 6 Qs and 2 mults in
45 min, Sun. PM 7 Qs and 2 mults in 1.5 hr, and 2 Qs and 1 mult in
a final 20 min. 0040-0100Z. In short: SLOW.
I was pleased to work W3SO and W2SZ on both bands, 140 and 320 miles
away on mountains in FN00 and FN32. But I heard no one in FN10, FN11,
or FN12 to the N nor in FN06 or FN16 to the S where I’ve easily made
QSOs in previous VHF tests.
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