[3830] ARRLDX CW K3CCR M/2 HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW - 2019

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

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 30

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:   81    55
   80:  235    71
   40:  342    90
   20:  468    96
   15:  111    56
   10:           
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Total: 1237   368  Total Score = 1,365,648

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 and 
W3GB did Multi-2 in the 2019 ARRL DX CW. 

Feedline to our 40m. beam is shorted atop the tower. The 40m. 
dipole a few feet over the shack roof loaded fine, but any 
power > 500 W. glitched one logging computer. 

At 00Z start N3UM tried to run on 40 but got only 15 Qs in 
0.5 hr, so he clicked spots and did better, 111 Qs on 40m. and 
21 Qs on 160m before QRT at 0331Z to sleep. W3GB clicked mults 
on 20m. 00-01Z then stayed for the late shift till 0638Z, getting 
128 Qs on 80m. and 65 more Qs on 40 and 160m. for 353 Qs and 
189 mults at QRT. 

N3UM came in at 12Z to find our new log computer useless; dead 
power supply. He ran 92 EUs on 20m. at 78/hr 1230-1341Z, until 
W3GB came in and took over 20m. while N3UM did a quick re-connect 
and bootup of our recently retired old Win XP box. Then N3UM got 
84 Qs and over 40 mults on 15m. by 22Z, surprising with SFI only 72. 

W3GB did better on 20m, 209 Qs and lots of mults by 22Z. W3GB then 
did 40m. while N3UM took a break and then stayed for the late shift. 
He got just 67 Qs due to high QRN and weak low-band signals 04-0620Z. 
Just 24 hr. earlier W3GB saw better conditions and got 96 Qs 04-0640Z. 

Daytime Sun. was (no surprise) slow; our best 1-hr. totals were 
41 and 44 Qs. But, we had fun chasing rare and/or distant mults 
on 15 and 20m. like 9G, HB0, JA, KH2, PY0F, V5, VK, ZL, and then 
RI1ANL on 2 bands at a Russian Antarctic base. 

We got 15% fewer Qs than we did in 2018 but claimed only 8% fewer 
points because we got 8% more multipliers. With the computer 
failure and our fallback 40m. setup ~10 dB down in Tx, we were 
pleased with the results.


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