[3830] TBDC K3CCR(N3UM) Single Op HP

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Stew Perry Topband Challenge

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

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 9

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 361  Total Score = 1,186

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 the 
Dec. 2016 Stew Perry only I (N3UM) was available; I went SOHP. 

Propagation was excellent; K index had been low for days.  Got 
on at 2108Z and ran well, 72 Qs in the first hour and 231 Qs for 
541 points in the first 4 hr., 58 Qs/hr and 135 points/hr avg. 
Six EUs answered my CQs; an EI at 2221, then an E7, 2 DLs, and 
an OK 23-00Z, and a 2nd EI at 0053Z. 

I kept CQing for 15 min. after the 4th hr. ended at 0106Z, but 
my rate dropped abruptly, 8 Qs in 15 min, 32/hr., so I went to 
tune and pounce. Rate was steady but slow; 76 Qs and 216 points 
in 3.1 hrs. 0106-0412Z for 25 Qs/hr and 71 points/hr avg.  Got 
2 EUs in that 3.1 hrs, near 03Z. 

Much more fun after 0413Z; ran again for 1/2 hr; 7 EUs and 
11 others answered CQs, then I tuned. Only 24 Qs 04-05Z but 144 
points, 3rd-best hr. of the test.  Next hour 05-06Z was best by 
far; only 29 Qs but 246 points, 177 from 13 EU Qs and 52 from 
W. coast K/VE and other NA. Then I got 3 more EU Qs and 2 US for 
44 points 0600-0608.  After 0608 heard no EUs, and all W/K and 
VE were dupes, so QRT to sleep. 

I claimed 1186 points, 439 more than the 747 points I got in 
2015 at K3CCR. Why? Because I got 31 EU Qs this year for 418 
points plus 119 points from W.-coast Qs, vs only 7 EU Qs and 
NO W.-coast Qs in 2015.  Also better than my best at N3UM, in 
2012, 930 points and 12 EU Qs.  Some of this was the amazing 
propagation, but I think improving our T antenna this year, 
~75 vs 50 ft. high with more radials, also helped.


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