ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB - 2020
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM W3GB
Station: K3CCR
Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 23.7
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 356
40: 232
20: 332
15:
10:
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Total: 920 Sections = 83 Total Score = 152,720
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 HP in SSB SS 2020, as we have for 4 years.
With few non-ham things to distract us this year, we put in 23.7
hrs BIC, and for the first time claimed >900 Qs and a score
>150K. This beat our best past claim, in 2016, by 53 Qs and 12K
points. Condx mixed; SFI 85+ but K of 4.
As we did in CW SS, we planned shifts to minimize gaps. N3UM was
on for 5 hrs. 21-02Z, and found 20 M hot; he ran for 188 Qs and
42 mults, including PAC and AK, in 3 hrs. Abrupt QSB suggested
auroral E.
When 20 M rate died at 0006Z N3UM QSYd to 40 M. It was pitiful;
17 Qs and 2 mults run and click, so he went to 80 M at 01Z. Much
better; 79 Qs and 26 mults by 02Z.
W3GB did better yet; 220 Qs on 80 M 02-0550Z, 214 in a run. He
then got 68 Qs and 2 mults 40 M, on for 6 hrs vs the plan of 5 hrs.
At 08Z QRT we had 574 Qs and 77 mults, our best by far for 08Z.
>From 12-14Z N3UM ran for 90 of 95 Qs and 2 mults on 40 M, then
got 43 more Qs and 2 mults on 20 M. At 1611Z we had 712 Qs and
81 mults total, lacking NNY, ONN, and NT.
Sun. PM was slow; in the 8.6 hrs till 0044Z QRT we got 208 Qs,
24/hr, plus NNY and ONN. Never heard NT, or saw a spot. W3GB was
on for one 2-hr and one 3.1-hr shift, N3UM on for 2.3 hrs, and gaps
of <30 min. took 1.2 hrs. total. BIC time was ~50/50, 11+ hrs each.
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