ARRL 160-Meter Contest - 2022
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM
Station: K3CCR
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 12.8
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 679 Sections = 62 Countries = 9 Total Score = 98,355
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 2022
ARRL 160 M, I (N3UM) was the only CW op available; I did SOHP U.
My goal was to beat the 1.16 M score I claimed in 2021 ARRL 160.
Nope; I got 1.02 X the QSO pts in 0.96 X the BIC hours, but
0.83 X the total mults to claim 0.85 X my 2021 score. Why?
The band was ~dead to EU or W6/W7 on the second night.
At start I ran for 180 Qs 2202-2356Z, plus 43 sects; N to ONE,
S to SFL, and W to MN and STX, but no DX. I then clicked spots
0005-0210 and 0238-0254Z for 126 Qs + 15 mults, 6 DX (3 NA, 2 EU,
1 SA) + 9 sects; S to VI & PR, W to AZ and MT.
>From 0300-0347Z I ran at 69/hr for 54 Qs + NL, CO, & XE. Hoping to
get more mults, I clicked spots 0348-0458Z and got some; UT, ND, OR,
and 4 in CA plus 51 Qs. I ran for 10 Qs but no mults 0501-0510Z,
and quit to sleep. At QRT I was +10 in Qs but -12 in mults vs 2021.
Back on 2220-2338Z I ran for 104 Qs at 80/hr, with good sigs out
to MN but no mults. To find mults, at 2348Z I clicked spots to
clear the bandmap, ran, and clicked again. A few repeats of this
got 84 Qs but just 2 DX mults by 0310Z; EA and ZF, very weak.
Clicking 0311-0357Z got 19 last Qs and NV, very weak. I tried till
0410Z, but got NO more Qs, run or click; band was so bad that most
ops also quit early.
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