CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM W3GB
Station: K3CCR
Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 19.3
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 707 State/Prov = 57 Countries = 52 Total Score = 236,094
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 had fun in CQ 160 CW 2018 operating Multi-Op HP.
Conditions and activity were very good, especially the first night.
N3UM ran for 3 hr. and 243 QSOs to start, 81/hr plus 39 Eastern-
sec mults. Run rate tanked after 01Z, but clicking spots till
02Z got to 281 Qs, 667 Q points, 9 DX mults, and 3 more secs.
W3GB took the very-productive late shift 02-0730Z to get
33 DX and 11 Western-sec mults. He ~doubled our total Q points,
to 1350. Next W3GB took the inevitably slower 2nd-night early
shift 21-02Z and got 347 more Q points and 3 new mults.
N3UM took the 2nd late shift 02-0648. Clicking spots
02-0340Z got a few Qs and mults but often no signal was heard,
even from W1-W4 calls that should have been loud. Semi-
desperate, he tried CQing at 0345Z. Instant success: 77 Qs in
1.4 hr. running, 55/hr late in the test. Surprise; many calls
logged were those spotted but not heard earlier! Maybe some ops
tried CQing, got spotted, but made few Qs and soon went S&P.
Clicking spots 0510Z to 0650 QRT, N3UM got Q pts to 2166 plus 5
DX mults and 2 VE secs.
Our final claim of 707 QSOs, 107 mults, and a 236K score was
way beyond our best prior result of 560 Qs, 88 mults, and 144.7K
in 2017. We got 61 EU Qs in 34 EU ctys; W3GB made 39 of those EU
QSOs, most in the 1st night. We got 10 NA cty mults, KH6, and 7 SA
and AF ctys. Missed NE, AK, BC, LB, and the NT provinces.
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