CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY - 2020
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM W3GB
Station: K3CCR
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 36.7
Summary:
Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 191 47 26 10
40: 321 46 52 17
20: 550 38 79 20
15: 40 3 19 11
10:
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Total: 1102 134 176 58 Total Score = 885,408
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-2 in the 9/20 CQ WW RTTY test with masks,
6 ft. between chairs, and plexiglas.
Our goal was to beat our best CQ RTTY claim, in 9/19. We did that,
with 1.8x the Q pts, 1.3X the mults, and 2.3x the score, in 1.3x
as many BIC hours.
We ran for 60% of total Qs and clicked spots for 40%, getting as
many 3-pt Qs and mults as we could. Lots of stations on, but runs
were short; only 2 runs of more than 100 Qs, one by each op.
With SFI=73, 20 and 15 M were fair to good. But with A indexes of
24 and 27 and Kp always 2 or more, usually 3 to 5, 40 and 80 M were
often poor; weak signals and QSB. At start, N3UM was on 40 M. W3GB
was on 20 M for 1.7 hrs and then went to 80 M. Rates were modest, a
combined 58 Qs/hr 00-04Z. We did better with mults; by 04Z we had
141 of our final 368 total mults, 38%.
W3GB did the late shift 04-0720Z for 50 more Qs on 80 M. N3UM quit to
sleep and rise early for EUs on 20 M. Rate was slow, 99 Qs in 3.4 hrs
1220-1547Z, but 52 mults. W3GB got 21 Qs and 19 mults on 15 M 14-16Z.
Sat. 16-24Z was slow; 210 Qs total, 80 of them by W3GB on 40 M, 130 by
both ops on 20 M. From 00-04Z Sun. N3UM got 78 Qs, 58 on 80 M. W3GB got
66 more Qs on 40 M ~01-04Z, then quit to sleep and return early. N3UM
stayed 04-0530Z, but got just 18 more Qs on 80 M with Kp=5.
W3GB got very good EU run rates on 20 M 1140-1600Z Sun; 189 Qs, 170 of
them 3-pointers.
Very slow 16-24Z, 135 Qs in 8 hr. Just 49 Qs and 9 mults in the last 3 hrs;
no surge near the end. Our average rate for the whole test was 30 Qs/hr.
We got 8 VE Pvs and 45 states, all but ND, VT, and MT. On all bands, 87
distinct countries including KH6, HZ, and UA, but no JA, VK, UA9, or ZL.
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