LA6FJA made this recording of me during the WPX SSB when he was operating from DZ1B. However I was beaming USA with the big stack, not sure if I did use the 5el mono towards east.
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CQ WPX SSB
New record, yay!
CQWW WPX Contest, SSB
Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SM2WMV
Station: SJ2W
Class: SOSB20 HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 34
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80:
40:
20: 3059
15:
10:
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Total: 3059 Prefixes = 1147 Total Score = 7,202,013
Club: Worldwide Young Contesters
Comments:
Aweful propagations at the beginning of the contest. The first 40 minutes were
decent, but then it was downhill. I decided there was no idea to continue and
took offtime. When I woke up after a couple of hours the band was still dead,
so I slept a bit more and when I woke up again 20m was still quite bad, so I
wasted most of my off-time during the first day, which I guess was a good
choice. However it ended up being the way that I lost about 2 hours of the 36h
op-time, however I doubt it would have generated many QSOs.
The score is a claimed new Scandinavian record, but I don't know if I have been
accurate enough for it to pass log check. I tried my best, but there were so
extremely many QSOs that were pulled out of the noise because of the quite
varying propagations. Sunday was decent and it looked good but some small
aurora on Sunday evening made the rate drop. However it picked up great by the
end so I could speed above the current record. I am very happy about the result
considering how the propagations were.
It was really fun to follow the progress of the SH3Y team, a bunch of young
kids from all over Europe who went to SK3W and operated the contest in the M/M
category, shattering the current Swedish record. Congrats!
6/6/6el + 5el + 4el @EU
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ARRL DX SSB
This weekend we had some visitors that came up from SM0. I did not plan any contest this weekend since the station is not yet fully functional but when SM0W called and asked if he could come and join us, since he had a work trip planned north during this week, I said OK. We will work as much as we can and luckily the station was in quite good shape before the contest, since I arrived already on Thursday evening. SA0AZT joined him on the trip north and I think he had a pleasant weekend at the SJ2W station.
On Thursday evening SM2LIY also joined and I noticed that the 60m tower did not turn. So I went out and the sound from the motor was the typical “one phase is missing” sound, so I suspected that a month ago when I tripped over a cable that I might have pulled something out of the rotor, and the suspicion was confirmed and easily fixed. However when I turned the tower I noticed that it seemed to have ice in the bottom bearing so with help from SM2XJP we took the blow tourch and got rid of the ice but when XJP turned the tower I noticed the bottom plate turning as well. So I took out the welder and welded it stuck to the bottom base and now it works as it should.
The contest sucked, it was horrible propagations. During the first night/morning we worked 69 qsos (!) which must be a bottom low for us. We had no openings at all on any band. It got better on Sunday but still not great, however we had a few nice moments of big runs and I think that SA0AZT at least enjoyed his time on the radio.
ARRL DX Contest, SSB
Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SA0AZT SM0W SM2LIY SM2WMV
Station: SJ2W
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 38
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 0 0
80: 15 14
40: 217 43
20: 1382 61
15: 564 58
10: 41 26
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Total: 2219 202 Total Score = 1,344,714
Club: Worldwide Young Contesters
Comments:
SM0W had planned a work trip up north and asked if he could join and do ARRL. I
had not planned any operation but I said yes and we did our best. However
propagation's were horrible and after the first night/morning we had 69 qsos
(!).
SA0AZT also joined SM0W on the trip north and did a good job along with the
regular SM2LIY.
It got better on Sunday but the lowbands were really bad and 10m didn't really
open up towards north american except for a few sporadic openings via aurora
and side scatter to south america.
160m: 39m vert
80m: 4-SQ
40m: 3/3el
20m: 6/6/6el
15m: 6/6el
10m: 6/6el + 6el @46m
Rig: 2xFT1000MKV
Amp: ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB) + 4CX1500B
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ARRL DX CW
Played around in this one testing the remote system. It’s perfect with ARRL since you don’t need to rotate the beams since the big tower is not rotatable yet via the remote. Total 18.5 hours of operating time and I had a lot of fun!
ARRL DX Contest, CW Call: SJ2W Operator(s): SM2WMV Station: SJ2W Class: SO Unlimited HP QTH: Da Traesk Operating Time (hrs): 18.5 Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 1 1 80: 25 19 40: 276 49 20: 594 55 15: 551 56 10: 281 46 ------------------- Total: 1728 226 Total Score = 1,171,584 Club: Worldwide Young Contesters Comments: This was fun, I took part of the contest working remotely from my work QTH. It worked great with the remoterig system (http://www.remoterig.com), I could not notice any delay and pretty much was just as being at the station. I worked 18.5 hours in the contest and propagations were very interesting. At some points they were awful but they also generated great opening on 10m via aurora, which would not be possible otherwise with SFI just over 100. I wish I did work the first night though, that would have given me probably 40 more mults since 160/80m was great, which was not the case the 2nd night and Sunday evening. Kind of wish I did work this one seriously at location, but there is always next year. Here is a video I made a few days ago of the remote control @work QTH, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkuIYlAna7o 160m: 39m vert 80m: 4-SQ 40m: 3/3el 20m: 6/6/6el 15m: 6/6el 10m: 6el @46m Rig: TS480S + remoterig + N1MM Amp: ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB)
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