ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW - 2020
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM W3GB
Station: K3CCR
Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 138
40: 242
20: 296
15: 4
10:
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Total: 680 Sections = 83 Total Score = 112,880
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 HP in SS CW 2020.
We did the same in the last 4 SS CW tests, but averaged just 16 hrs.
BIC due to non-ham things like concerts. With these shut down, we
easily put in 24 hrs BIC and beat our best past claim, in 2016, by
154 Qs and 27K points.
Great condx helped; SFI of 90, and Kp mostly 1 or 2. We scheduled
shifts, to avoid gaps.
N3UM was on for 5 hrs. 21-02Z. First he ran for 125 Qs on 20 M,
with loud sigs from most K and VE sects in the west, east to OH and
GA, but no W1’s. Then he got 82 Qs on 40 M and quit to sleep.
W3GB did 5 hrs. 02-07Z, clicking spots on 40 and 80 M for always-
CQing stations and mults. He got all W1, most W2, and QC and MAR out
to KY and IN. At QRT we had 285 Qs and 74 sects, our best by 07Z ever.
At 12Z N3UM ran for 111 Qs on 40 M in 2 hrs, then got 61 more Qs from
spots and brief runs on 20 and 40 M by 1626Z.
For our last 9.2 hrs we each did 2 shifts of ~2.3 hrs. From 17-00Z we
got 139 Qs, nearly all on 20 M, slow but steady at 19 Qs/hr average.
Got 4 Qs and AK on 15 M, 4 Qs and our last mult WPA on 40 M at 2129Z.
From 00Z to our 24-hr limit at 0151Z N3UM ran on 80 M for 84 Qs but no
mults, while W3GB scoured 20 and 40 M for NT. There was one VY1 spot
on 40M, uncopyable under a howling pileup. He went QRT in disgust.
We got 1 Q each in DE, NNY, and PE. In 2019 CW SS, with 7 fewer BIC
hrs and SFI of only 71, we got 1 Q each in 13 sections!
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