[3830] ARRL Sep VHF K3CCR Limited Multi-Op LP

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ARRL September VHF Contest

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

Class: Limited Multi-Op LP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 9.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:   48    17
    2:   44    18
  222:    0     0
  432:   23    18
  903:           
  1.2:           
  2.3:           
  3.4:           
  5.7:           
  10G:           
  24G:           
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Total:  115    46  Total Score = 6,348

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 Sept. 2016 ARRL VHF, W3GB and N3UM could operate so we went 
Limited Multi-Op on 6, 2, and 432.  In late Aug. we had a 4-el. 
6m. beam put on the mast above our HF Skyhawk, 90 ft. up atop a 
43-ft. hill.  So, we were much louder on 6 than in the June VHF 
when we used our 40m. inverted V on 7th harmonic! 

There was NO Eskip, but that made everyone focus on 2, 432, and 
non-skip 6m Qs and grids even though tropo was only fair. Compared 
with June VHF we got 26 more QSO points, 3 fewer grids, and 6.3K vs 
the 5.5K score we claimed in June with some Eskip. We got good 
reports and immediate come-backs on 6 m. with the new antenna. 

Best DX was mountain-top W2SZ at 320 mi, easy on 432 CW and on 
2 and 6 m. SSB. As often seen in VHF tests, the first 3 hr. 
were by far the most productive: we got 45% of our QSOs and 
50% of our mults then. We enjoyed greeting PVRC friends close 
by and familiar serious VHF contesters further away.


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