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
-------------------
6: 87 35
2: 20 8
222:
432: 11 4
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
-------------------
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.
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/
______________________________________________
3830 mailing list
3830@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/3830
|