IARU HF World Championship - 2023
Call: K3CCR
Operator(s): N3UM W5MPB
Station: K3CCR
Class: M/S HP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 19.2
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160:
80: 15 6 6 7
40: 138 21 19 30
20: 203 115 27 39
15: 135 58 22 34
10:
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Total: 491 200 74 110 Total Score = 477,480
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
2023 IARU test N3UM and W5MPB operated Multi-1 HP Assisted.
N3UM did all CW, W5MPB all SSB.
We hoped to beat our 2022 IARU claim. We did that; 1.25 X the Qs,
1.47 X the Q pts, and 1.02 X the mults for 1.5 X our 2022 score.
Great condx gave us more Qs and more pts/Q.
We alternated 3-hour shifts, as worked well before. N3UM went first,
12-15Z. Using Available Mults & Qs he got 37 Qs on 20 M, then 36 Qs
on 15 M by 1339Z.
Then all Telnet spots died. N3UM tried 7 good clusters; none connected.
IT guru W5MPB found that it was not us; clusters were just AWOL.
At 1442Z N3UM ran at 79/hr for 24 15 M Qs in 18 min, but rate died.
CW spots came back 1446Z, low quality from a few clusters. We were
QRT ~1 hr trying to get spots back. N3UM got 29 more 15-M Qs by 15Z.
W5MPB found good SSB sgnals sparse; he got 1 20-M Q and 55 15-M Qs
1512-1749Z. CW had more good sigs; from 18-21Z N3UM got 17 Qs on
20 M, 28 on 15 M, then 77 on 20 M.
W5MPB had his best shift 21-00Z, 99 Qs on 20 M. N3UM’s best shift
was 00-03Z; 129 40-M Qs in 2 hrs, 28 in a run, then 15 80-M Qs
and 45 20-M Qs.
On the late shift 03-06Z W5MPB hopped on 4 bands to scrape
up 45 Qs, with most sigs dupe or no-copy. He did 12 QSYs (all
met the 10-min rule), and got 1 to 6 Qs on each hop.
N3UM was on 10-12Z. He got 9 40-M Qs, with ZL and W1AW/KH6, then
26 20-M Qs, and a last 42 15-M Qs in 43 min.
We got many I4X WRTC Qs, SSB & CW. Easy & fun to work
world-class ops, even with weak signals.
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