[3830] CQ WW RTTY K3CCR M/2 HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY - 2020

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

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 36.7

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  State/Prov  DX   Zones
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   80:  191       47      26    10
   40:  321       46      52    17
   20:  550       38      79    20
   15:   40        3      19    11
   10:                            
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Total: 1102      134     176    58  Total Score = 885,408

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 operated Multi-2 in the 9/20 CQ WW RTTY test with masks, 
6 ft. between chairs, and plexiglas. 

Our goal was to beat our best CQ RTTY claim, in 9/19. We did that, 
with 1.8x the Q pts, 1.3X the mults, and 2.3x the score, in 1.3x 
as many BIC hours. 

We ran  for 60% of total Qs and clicked spots for 40%, getting as 
many 3-pt Qs and mults as we could. Lots of stations on, but runs 
were short; only 2 runs of more than 100 Qs, one by each op. 

With SFI=73, 20 and 15 M were fair to good. But with A indexes of 
24 and 27 and Kp always 2 or more, usually 3 to 5, 40 and 80 M were 
often poor; weak signals and QSB. At start, N3UM was on 40 M. W3GB 
was on 20 M for 1.7 hrs and then went to 80 M. Rates were modest, a 
combined 58 Qs/hr 00-04Z. We did better with mults; by 04Z we had 
141 of our final 368 total mults, 38%. 

W3GB did the late shift 04-0720Z for 50 more Qs on 80 M. N3UM quit to 
sleep and rise early for EUs on 20 M. Rate was slow, 99 Qs in 3.4 hrs 
1220-1547Z, but 52 mults. W3GB got 21 Qs and 19 mults on 15 M 14-16Z. 

Sat. 16-24Z was slow; 210 Qs total, 80 of them by W3GB on 40 M, 130 by 
both ops on 20 M. From 00-04Z Sun. N3UM got 78 Qs, 58 on 80 M. W3GB got 
66 more Qs on 40 M ~01-04Z, then quit to sleep and return early. N3UM 
stayed 04-0530Z, but got just 18 more Qs on 80 M with Kp=5. 

W3GB got very good EU run rates on 20 M 1140-1600Z Sun; 189 Qs, 170 of 
them 3-pointers. 

Very slow 16-24Z, 135 Qs in 8 hr. Just 49 Qs and 9 mults in the last 3 hrs; 
no surge near the end. Our average rate for the whole test was 30 Qs/hr. 

We got 8 VE Pvs and 45 states, all but ND, VT, and MT. On all bands, 87 
distinct countries including KH6, HZ, and UA, but no JA, VK, UA9, or ZL.


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