SJ2W Contest Station

SM3WMU did operate 20m from SJ2W in the ARRL DX SSB Contest. This was his first visit to the station and he seemed to enjoy it a lot. Unfortunately Tomas had to leave early because of family commitments which limited his operating time to only 18 hours. SM3JLA also joined to do some work with me, mainly trying to fix an amplifier which unfortunately did not succeed. It’s an granger auto-tune amplifier which we don’t have any manual for and don’t seem to find one either So right now we are limited using a 4-1000A amp which we need to run down to the basement to tune, so all band efforts are out of the question. Hopefully we will have the amplifier situation solved soon.

ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SM3WMU
Station: SJ2W

Class: SOSB/20 HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 18

Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80:
40:
20: 1052 62
15:
10:
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Total: 1052 62 Total Score = 195,486

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Guest operator SM3WMU did his first visit to the QTH which was bought 1.5 years
ago. He has been contributing with a lot of gear though so it was a very
welcome visit. However family commitments forced him to leave on Sunday morning
just as the bands started to open.

6el mono @55m
4-1000A amp
FT1000D

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We had a lot of fun in the CQ 160m contest. SM0W did visit us from Stockholm and did most of the operating together with SM2LIY. I had neck pain and was resting most of the weekend, however we cleaned out the sauna and had a nice sauna before and after the contest.

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SM0W SM2LIY SM2WMV
Station: SJ2W

Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 40

Summary:
Total: QSOs = 1347 State/Prov = 47 Countries = 83 Total Score = 1,055,860

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

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Because of an amp failure I had to run the contest barefoot, which made the contest less fun but I still am very happy about the result. DJ1YFK did however beat me but maybe next year I can a possibility to beat him

                    Croatian CW Contest

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SM2WMV
Station: SJ2W

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:  145    36
   80:  301    45
   40:  282    43
   20:  254    49
   15:   43    18
   10:    1     1
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Total: 1026   192  Total Score = 535,104

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

I had plans to do the contest high power but when I arrived to the QTH and was
gonna test the amp something is wrong with it. So I decided to go barefoot and
was about to quit a few hours in but stuck in there. I slept 2 hours but sat in
the chair rest of the time.

I am happy with the result, new SM record at least and I beat my old HP record
too which was taken at the old QTH. I suffered from just having a vertical on
40m, but next year this will be improved and I’ll try to do a good result in
the HP category instead. First time > 1000q for me in this contest. Last year I
did SB 80 which was not to recommend so this year even though LP it was a lot
more fun.

US signals on 20 were amazing but extremely low activity. Fun to work W7LR on
160m with just 100W (!) and also a few other big guns.

FT1KD + IC-7400
160m: 37m vert + 8 bevs
80m: 4-SQ
40m: Vertical
20m: 6el mono
15m: 6el mono
10m: 6/6el mono

Next one will be CQ 160 CW! Tnx for all qsos!

Pictures of the shack layout for the contest can be found here

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Another contest over and we feel pretty pleased with the result. The propagation’s were not the best since the bands seemed slow to recover from the aurora on Friday morning. However they improved the longer the weekend went on and on Sunday the signals from NA were pretty good on at least 80m and decent on 160m. We are very happy about the 160m/80m result which are also the bands we have pretty much “completed” antenna systems which will only have some small improvements towards to the final design ideas at the station. 40m was for sure our weak point and with the kind of propagation’s now this SHOULD be our money band but it wasn’t, because of just using the 1/4 vertical. 20m was a huge disappointment. We have been listening on 20m for weeks with great openings in the evenings towards W6/W7 and sometimes even east coast openings but this time the bands closed rather early and they didn’t open up as well as they can do. However we had a fun opening to run a few west coast guys on 15m during Sunday evening just prior to the contest end, that was a blast.

Compared to the SSB part we had a point average on 20m which was around 2.3 pts/q, now we had around 1.7 pts/q so it’s a quite big difference. However we are happy about the multiplier total (considering 40m) and the number of qsos worked is also all OK. Next year we should imrpove this result A LOT when we have a more flexible station because we really need at least one good independent rotatable yagi on each band, making us able to work multipliers without affecting the run station.

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We had the following setup:

Radios

RUN: FT2000 + Granger (1kW amp)

Mult: IC-7400 + ACOM1000

160m: FT1000D + 4-1000A

Antennas

160m: 37m high vert

80m: 4-SQ

40m: vertical

20m: 6el @55m + 3el @19m

15m: 6el @14m

10m: 6/6el @16/11m

I forgot my camera at the contest QTH so I don’t have any pictures to post right now. But I post some as soon as I get hold of them.

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SE2T SM2LIY SM2WMV SM3JLA
Station: SJ2W

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:  720    24       82
   80:  899    31      111
   40:  443    31       98
   20: 1014    35      118
   15:  170    27       79
   10:    6     5        6
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Total: 3252   153      494  Total Score = 3,469,666

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

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