[3830] CQWW SSB K3CCR M/2 HP

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CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

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

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 33.4

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:                    
   80:   72    10       44
   40:  177    18       73
   20:  485    28      102
   15:  264    21       92
   10:   53     7       20
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Total: 1051    84      331  Total Score = 1,238,360

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 CQ 
WW SSB 2017, N3UM and W3GB operated Multi-Two Assisted. As two 
retiree ops, we're ready to stay up late OR get up early, but 
no longer do both in the same overnight. 

We used our new JK 
Falcon beam (2 el. on 40 m. and 4 el. on 20 m.) for the first 
time in a DX contest.  It did very well. On  40 m. we got 2X as 
many Qs and nearly 2X as many mults as we did in 2015 and 2016 
CQ SSB using a good high inverted V. On 20 m. we got almost 2X 
as many Qs and a dozen or so more mults than in recent years, 
and made single-band DXCC.  We were surprised at our good 15 
and 10 m. results with SFI so low. 

We found it productive on 
all bands to switch among clicking on spots, CQing, and tuning, 
changing when the band map was worked out or the run or S&P rate 
fell. Tuning found many loud CQing stations that had not been 
spotted. Run freqs were scarce. We got a few fast but short runs, 
100/hr but only for a few tens of minutes. 

We were happy with our 
final claimed score, our best in CQ SSB and better than N3UM got 
in 12 years of SOHP. We worked 116 total countries.  It was fun 
to work rare and/or distant mults 5T, BY, FR, JT, SV5, and KH0.


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