North American QSO Party, SSB - January
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM W3GB
Station: K3CCR
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 60 22
80: 183 34
40: 125 32
20: 95 29
15: 61 21
10: 13 6
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Total: 537 144 Total Score = 77,328
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Team:
Comments:
K3CCR is the club station at the Collington continuing-care
retirement community at FM 18OW in MD, just east of DC. For
the NAQP SSB available operators were N3UM and W3GB. We have
a triplexer on our Skyhawk tribander, good low-band wires, and
bandpass filters that let us operate safely on any two of the
six bands. High bands were weak and slow: in the first 2 hrs.
we got just 53 Qs on 15, 40 Qs on 20, 13 Qs on 10. W6s and W7s
were working W8s and W9s we could not hear. AHA: Sporadic E in
the west, W8 and W9 signals much louder in W6 than our F-layer signals. That
and SFI of 105 limited us to only 159 high-band
Qs vs 336 in 2014 with SFI of 125. We went to 40 m. at 20Z, 80
m. at 23Z, and 160 m.at 01Z and did much better: 368 low-band
Qs vs 214 in 2014. Worked 46 states; missed AR, ID, NV, and HI.
Put in 22.5 operator hours BIC, and claimed 5% more points than
in 2014: slightly fewer Qs but a few more mults.
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