[3830] SS SSB K3CCR Multi-Op HP

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                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB

Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM W3GB
Station: K3CCR

Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 22.6

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:     
   80:  268
   40:  236
   20:  169
   15:   87
   10:     
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Total:  760  Sections = 83  Total Score = 126,160

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. For SSB 
SS, N3UM and W3GB were the operators. Last year the same team  
claimed 631 QSOs, a sweep, and 104.7 K points. Our 2015 goal was 
to do better than that, especially on 80 m with a much better  
antenna: a high inverted V now vs. a much lower dipole last year.

To start we did quick S&P on 20 m for half an hour, then found a 
slot and ran, making 68 Qs in 46 min. for 89/hr.  But, at 2230 Z
the rate dropped abruptly and we went to 40 m, which was steady 
but slow, running or S&P, as was 80. We stopped to sleep at 05 Z
with 70 sections but just 236 Qs. (In 20:20 hindsight we should 
have spent more time on 20 and 80.)  

Early Sun. AM was better: a 
few dozen Qs on 80 and then 81 Qs in 1 hr. on 40 m, 13-14 Z. Next,  
20 and 15 m were steady but slow.  At 18 Z we shifted focus to 
finding the last 5 sections: NT, AK, SK, UT, and RI.  AK and NT 
were easy: we worked 3 of each!  By 2036 we had our only SK and 
only UT.  The holdout was RI, found 3 hr. later on 80 m with 
3.5 hr. to go. In 3 of the last 4 hr. we made 54, 54, and 53 
Qs on 80 m, for 189 more Qs on 80 than last year: goals met, 
new 80 M antenna proven in 22.6 hr. BIC vs 24 in 2014.


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