[3830] ARRL Sep VHF K3CCR(N3UM) Single Op LP

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                    ARRL September VHF Contest

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

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 2.7

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  11      4
    2:  14      7
  222:           
  432:   8      4
  903:   1      1
  1.2:   1      1
  2.3:           
  3.4:           
  5.7:           
  10G:           
  24G:           
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Total:  35     17  Total Score = 799

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. N3UM 
operated SOLP in the Sept. 2018 ARRL VHF test. 

Steady rain fell often. Rate was very slow, just 16 Qs in the 
first hr, 9 more in the next 2 hrs, and a total of only 35 Qs in 
nearly 4 hrs. of trying.  N1MM+ calculated only 2.7 hrs. BIC 
because twice I went more than 1/2 hr. between Qs! I did not 
hear any E skip on 6m. 

Only one QSO each on 903 and 1296 MHz, both with K1RZ. Could not 
work W3EKT or W3IP on either band, even though in Sept. 2017 I 
worked both of them plus 2 others on 903, and W3IP on 1296. It 
could have been heavy soaking-wet tree foliage, or water in my 
coax or feeds.  After the test the SWR on 903 was 2.8; it has 
always been less than 1.5. 

I hope the low activity this year is just a fluke, not a trend. 
In Sept. VHF 2000-2011 at another QTH nearby, with comparable 
gear, I averaged 110 Qs on 6 and 2 m, ~half on each band, vs 
just 25 this year and 34 in 2017 on those two bands. 
We did get 95 Qs at K3CCR on 6 and 2m. in 2016.


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