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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