[3830] RTTY WPX K3CCR M/2 HP

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                    CQ WPX RTTY Contest - 2021

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

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 14.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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   80:  141
   40:  260
   20:  157
   15:     
   10:     
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Total:  558  Prefixes = 379  Total Score = 689,401

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 HP in Feb. 2021 CQ WPX RTTY. 

Our goal was to beat our first WPX RTTY result, in 2020; 2.97K 
Q points and 1.49M claimed score. More RTTY experience and new 
F-key messages since 2/20 gave us hope, but the ice storm took it 
away. No antenna damage, no power loss. But, shack and cottages are 
separate; < 1 mi. away, but hard and risky to drive or walk on ice. 

Before the ice we did well; we ran for 85% of 295 Qs, 1012 Q pts, 
and 208 pfxs 00-05Z with N3UM on 80 M and W3GB on 40 M. W3GB got 
52% of Qs but 65% of Q pts, due to more 6-pt DX on 40 M. 

QRV again 1215-15Z, W3GB got 151 Q pts and 40 mults on 20 M in 51 
Qs; 48 were 3-pt EUs. 

Freezing rain began ~1430Z. W3GB's tough old F-150 with 4-wheel 
drive got him safely home, and back 1950-2250Z for 75 more 20-M 
Q pts and 31 mults in NA, SA, EU, and AS. A lull in the rain at 
20Z, then it came back. At 23Z W3GB had to use the defroster to 
melt solid windshield ice; chipper was useless. Road was slick. 

The truck got us both to the shack at 20Z Sun, after 23 hrs of 
thawing. We did well in the last 4 hrs, with N3UM on 40 M and W3GB 
on 20 M; 583 Q pts and 100 mults in 163 Qs. We got 396 of the Q 
pts from 66 6-pt Qs on 40 M, out to HZ and A6. On 20 M, we got EU, 
SA, OC, and AS mults out to LU, KH6, and JA. 

Relative to our Feb. 2020 WPX RTTY claim, we got 61% as many Q pts 
and 75% as many mults, in 51% as many BIC hours.


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