ARRL 160-Meter Contest - 2020
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM W3GB
Station: K3CCR
Class: M/S HP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 22.4
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 774 Sections = 76 Countries = 18 Total Score = 151,152
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-Single HP in the 2020 ARRL 160 M test.
Condx were good; Kp of~1, S-3 QRN, and lots of sigs. We beat our
2019 score claim by 18.4 K, 59 more Qs, and 6 mults. But, our
2020 claim is 2.3% less than we got in 2018; 74 fewer Qs then,
but more 5 pointers, and 11 more cty mults. This year, EU and SA
signals were rarer and weaker.
As has worked well before for us on CW, N3UM ran for bulk Qs and
W3GB clicked spots for mults; he got 56% of our mults in 33% of
our Qs. At start 22-2324Z W3GB got 68 Qs and 34 mults, more than
1/3 of our final total of 94 mults.
N3UM then ran 2336-0124Z for 159 Qs, 88/hr. W3GB got 47 more Qs
and 10 more mults by 03Z. N3UM did the 03-0630Z late shift, ran
for 148 Qs, then got 28 Qs and 11 mults clicking spots, 6 in CA
and WA. W3GB came 1020-1224Z and got 4 rare mults, taking us to
500 Qs and 81 mults to end the first night.
To start the 2nd night N3UM ran for 100 Qs 2029-2231Z and just 1
mult, but it was rare NNY. We then did 2 more ~2-hr shifts and
got to 725 Qs and 88 mults by 0225Z.
W3GB did the 2nd late shift after 0244Z. He got 25 Qs and ND by
06Z; his notes say “QSB-Noise-Weak sigs-tough going”. He pushed
on anyway till 0847Z for 24 more Qs and ID, SCV, BC, NE, and PR
for 94 total mults. Besides hard and rare sections AK, NT, and
PAC, we missed only NV and 4 in CA. Not bad for 160 M. EUs were
13 of our 18 country mults, but all were worked just once, except
for 2 EAs.
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