ARRL September VHF Contest
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM W3GB
Station: K3CCR
Class: Limited Multi-Op LP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 9.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 48 17
2: 44 18
222: 0 0
432: 23 18
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 115 46 Total Score = 6,348
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.
For the Sept. 2016 ARRL VHF, W3GB and N3UM could operate so we went
Limited Multi-Op on 6, 2, and 432. In late Aug. we had a 4-el.
6m. beam put on the mast above our HF Skyhawk, 90 ft. up atop a
43-ft. hill. So, we were much louder on 6 than in the June VHF
when we used our 40m. inverted V on 7th harmonic!
There was NO Eskip, but that made everyone focus on 2, 432, and
non-skip 6m Qs and grids even though tropo was only fair. Compared
with June VHF we got 26 more QSO points, 3 fewer grids, and 6.3K vs
the 5.5K score we claimed in June with some Eskip. We got good
reports and immediate come-backs on 6 m. with the new antenna.
Best DX was mountain-top W2SZ at 320 mi, easy on 432 CW and on
2 and 6 m. SSB. As often seen in VHF tests, the first 3 hr.
were by far the most productive: we got 45% of our QSOs and
50% of our mults then. We enjoyed greeting PVRC friends close
by and familiar serious VHF contesters further away.
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