[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: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 23

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:                    
   80:   78    12       48
   40:  156    19       66
   20:  174    25       81
   15:  169    23       73
   10:                    
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Total:  577    79      268  Total Score = 560,752

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 2018, N3UM and W3GB operated Multi-Two Assisted. 

Due to family visits and other non-ham obligations we could only do 
23 hrs. BIC vs 33 hrs. in CQ SSB 2017, 68% as much time. Even so we 
got 55% as many Qs and 84% as many mults. Not bad, given that SFI 
was 84 in 2017 and a minimal 69 this year. 

On 80 plus 40 m. we made only 6% fewer Qs and got the same number of 
total mults as we did in 2017, despite S-7 P-static QRN on 40 and S-9 
QRN on 80 the first night, when it rained hard. But, on 20 and 15 m. the 
lower SFI and less BIC time this year meant 406 fewer Qs; inevitable. 

Propagation was good on 20 and astonishing on 15 m. Got 77 Qs in 
1.25 hr. on 20 m. after 1244Z Sun. AM, fast-clicking on EU spots. 

Unexpected DX on 15 m; ZL and FR, plus 6W, 7Q, and 9Q in AF. 
On 20 m. we worked Ducie, VP6 (!) plus Z2 and XT in AF 
and 4X and A4 in the Mid East.  Also good to Mid East was 40 m; 
got 4X, 9k, A7, and HZ. 

In all we worked 104 distinct countries, vs 115 in CQ SSB 2017.


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