[3830] ARRL June VHF K3CCR(N3UM) SO 3Band LP

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                    ARRL June VHF Contest - 2020

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

Class: SO 3Band LP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 11.3

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:   87    35
    2:   20     8
  222:           
  432:   11     4
  903:           
  1.2:           
  2.3:           
  3.4:           
  5.7:           
  10G:           
  24G:           
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Total:  118    47  Total Score = 6,063

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. In the 
June 2020 ARRL VHF test, I (N3UM) operated SOLP 3-band, with no 
spotting. 

The start was slow; few sigs, all LOS. In 3 hrs before supper 
break and 1 hr after, I made 20 Qs on 6m, 14 on 2m, and 8 on 0.7m. 
Then, at 0108Z I got my first 6m. E skip QSO, in EN54. 

After that, for the rest of the test, most ops just chased the 
spotlight/whack-a-mole sporadic-E on 6m. I made just 5 more Qs on 
2m. and 2 more on 0.7m, but 66 more Qs on 6m, 52 of these on CW. 

I did better on 6M. CW because I was using the 2-el. 40-m. part 
of our Falcon 20/40 with a tuner; very little gain, but > 100ft. 
up. Also, my TenTec 6-m. transverter failed after ~25 years, and 
I had to use a QRP FT818 to work with the 100W 6-m. amp. A good 
radio on CW, just fair on SSB; no speech processing, no voice- 
recorder input. 

>From 0108Z to 0230 QRT I made 7 more CW skip Qs in EN and EM, 
6 of them mults, and 4 SSB Qs in EN, all mults. 

At 14Z Sun. AM, no Es; I got 4 LOS Qs. Then at 1425Z 4 Es Qs on 
CW in 10 min, all in EN52. By lunch at 1608Z I had 12 more Es Qs, 
7 of them mults, 1 a double-hop to DM38 in AZ. 

After lunch I got 7 LOS Qs, but Es was sparse, just 3 Qs and 1 
mult. Back at 0015Z after supper and chores, the Es spotlight was 
on FL; 6 Qs and 3 mults on CW, in EL97-99. Next I got a last 5 Es 
mults by 02Z, in EM. 

All 3 bands then emptied until I got WA3NUF on 2 and 0.7m, plus 
W4EO/R loud in FM18 for 5 Qs and 3 mults by 0226Z QRT to claim 
6.06 K. Our best previous June VHF claim was 6.35 K in 2016; 
2 ops, a real 6m. beam, but only 48 Qs on 6m. In 2016 far more 
ops were on 2 and 0.7m SSB and CW than this year.


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