IARU HF World Championship - 2019
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM W3GB
Station: K3CCR
Class: M/S HP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 19
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160:
80: 63 13 21
40: 98 16 26
20: 243 37 27 36
15: 28 7 13
10:
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Total: 432 37 63 96 Total Score = 254,559
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 Muti-1 HP in the July 2019 IARU contest.
We put in 19 hrs. BIC, all but 01-06 EDT, and got more QSO points,
zone mults, and HQ mults than ever before at K3CCR in 5 years 2014-
2017. Score was 24% above our previous best. We did well using the
IARU strategy we learned in those 5 years; best band is 20m, 2nd
best 40m, emphasize mults and 5-point QSOs, and do mostly CW.
Few sunspots mean SSB rates to EU are OK for just a few hours.
And, mults are per band (not mode). Skimmer spots find mults and
5-point Qs fast, another CW advantage.
We alternated ~2-3 hr. shifts. Condx were better than expected
for SFI = 67, especially on 15m, and activity was pretty good.
We spent the first 8 hrs. on CW, on 20m. except for 1.4 hr.
on 15m. around 15Z. Rate was steady but slow, 14 to 30 Qs/hr.
We tried runs, but rate fell after 12-15 Qs. We had 179 QSOs
and 66 mults by 20Z. We then got 30 SSB Qs and 52 more CW Qs
2000-0009Z on 20m.
We did 40m. CW 0021-0121Z and got 63 Qs and 33 mults, by far our
best hour, clicking spots. We then got 32 more Qs on 40m.
N3UM took the late shift at 0256Z and got 63 CW Qs in ~1.5 hr.
on 80m. When 80 slowed, a check of 20m. showed amazing activity.
>From 0436Z to 0555Z QRT N3UM got 2 ZLs, 2 VKs, Kazakhstan in
Zone 30, and 6 EUs in Zone 29.
W3GB took the early shift 0951-1157Z and made 30 Qs on 20 CW and
SSB; 27 were 5-pointers, 18 in EU zones 28 and 29, plus AF and SA.
He got 2 zone mults, JA in 45 and PR in 13.
It was fun to get distant mults and lots of 5 point Qs in the last 4 hr. of the
test.
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