ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM W3GB
Station: K3CCR
Class: M/S HP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 19.4
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 700 Sections = 72 Countries = 28 Total Score = 154,700
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 did Multi-Op One TX in the 2018 ARRL 160.
At start, condx and activity were good. N3UM ran for 228 Qs in
just under 3 hr, 77/hr. Then after a 12 min. break he ran for 108
more Qs in 1.8 hr. for a total of 334 by 03Z. The first EU, an OM,
called him at 2258Z followed by 8 more EU mults plus VP9 and 51 sects.
W3GB then clicked spots 0300-0823Z. He got 31/hr for his first 2 hrs.
Rate then slowed but he got 13 sect mults in the far west plus 3
more countries and took us to 457 Qs and 77 mults at QRT.
Sat. PM N3UM ran slow and steady for 77 Qs 20-22Z but just 1 mult,
C6. After a supper break he got 18 more Qs in 1/2 hr. and 3 more
EU mults plus PJ2. W3GB then got 40 Qs in 2.2 hr. plus ZF and
NTX mults to take us to 592 Qs and 85 mults at 03Z.
N3UM came back 0308-0650Z and got our last 108 Qs, 59 of them in
3 short runs and 49 clicking spots. Condx were great to EU; 17 EU Qs,
9 of them mults, for 28 ctys. Also MB, SK, EWA, ND, WTX, and SCV
for 72 sects.
We missed NNY (!), AK, NV, ND, NL, NT, PAC, and 4 W6 sects.
To our great relief, the solar forecast of Kp = 5 to 8 was
way high. In the 19.4 hrs. we operated, Kp was 1 or 2 for 8
hrs. each, and 0 or 3 for ~1.7 hrs. each.
This is our best claimed score in ARRL 160. We claimed 610 Qs,
93 mults, and a 122.4 K score in 2017, and 713 Qs, 83 mults,
and 121.9 K in 2016.
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