ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM W3GB
Station: K3CCR
Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 22.6
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 268
40: 236
20: 169
15: 87
10:
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Total: 760 Sections = 83 Total Score = 126,160
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 SSB
SS, N3UM and W3GB were the operators. Last year the same team
claimed 631 QSOs, a sweep, and 104.7 K points. Our 2015 goal was
to do better than that, especially on 80 m with a much better
antenna: a high inverted V now vs. a much lower dipole last year.
To start we did quick S&P on 20 m for half an hour, then found a
slot and ran, making 68 Qs in 46 min. for 89/hr. But, at 2230 Z
the rate dropped abruptly and we went to 40 m, which was steady
but slow, running or S&P, as was 80. We stopped to sleep at 05 Z
with 70 sections but just 236 Qs. (In 20:20 hindsight we should
have spent more time on 20 and 80.)
Early Sun. AM was better: a
few dozen Qs on 80 and then 81 Qs in 1 hr. on 40 m, 13-14 Z. Next,
20 and 15 m were steady but slow. At 18 Z we shifted focus to
finding the last 5 sections: NT, AK, SK, UT, and RI. AK and NT
were easy: we worked 3 of each! By 2036 we had our only SK and
only UT. The holdout was RI, found 3 hr. later on 80 m with
3.5 hr. to go. In 3 of the last 4 hr. we made 54, 54, and 53
Qs on 80 m, for 189 more Qs on 80 than last year: goals met,
new 80 M antenna proven in 22.6 hr. BIC vs 24 in 2014.
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