Stew Perry Topband Challenge
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM
Station: K3CCR
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 361 Total Score = 1,186
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
Dec. 2016 Stew Perry only I (N3UM) was available; I went SOHP.
Propagation was excellent; K index had been low for days. Got
on at 2108Z and ran well, 72 Qs in the first hour and 231 Qs for
541 points in the first 4 hr., 58 Qs/hr and 135 points/hr avg.
Six EUs answered my CQs; an EI at 2221, then an E7, 2 DLs, and
an OK 23-00Z, and a 2nd EI at 0053Z.
I kept CQing for 15 min. after the 4th hr. ended at 0106Z, but
my rate dropped abruptly, 8 Qs in 15 min, 32/hr., so I went to
tune and pounce. Rate was steady but slow; 76 Qs and 216 points
in 3.1 hrs. 0106-0412Z for 25 Qs/hr and 71 points/hr avg. Got
2 EUs in that 3.1 hrs, near 03Z.
Much more fun after 0413Z; ran again for 1/2 hr; 7 EUs and
11 others answered CQs, then I tuned. Only 24 Qs 04-05Z but 144
points, 3rd-best hr. of the test. Next hour 05-06Z was best by
far; only 29 Qs but 246 points, 177 from 13 EU Qs and 52 from
W. coast K/VE and other NA. Then I got 3 more EU Qs and 2 US for
44 points 0600-0608. After 0608 heard no EUs, and all W/K and
VE were dupes, so QRT to sleep.
I claimed 1186 points, 439 more than the 747 points I got in
2015 at K3CCR. Why? Because I got 31 EU Qs this year for 418
points plus 119 points from W.-coast Qs, vs only 7 EU Qs and
NO W.-coast Qs in 2015. Also better than my best at N3UM, in
2012, 930 points and 12 EU Qs. Some of this was the amazing
propagation, but I think improving our T antenna this year,
~75 vs 50 ft. high with more radials, also helped.
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