CQ-M International DX Contest
Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SM2LIY SM2WMV
Station: SJ2W
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 19
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Mults
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160: 15 0 15
80: 115 0 30
40: 246 56 42
20: 481 266 69
15: 513 66 71
10: 39 0 22
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Total: 1409 388 249 Total Score = 1,006,209
Club: Worldwide Young Contesters
Comments:
Was nice conditions this time, we did not plan to work serious, but became quite
good result. We worked some inband QSOs as preparation for WPX CW.
It worked quite ok listening to a 3 band vertical in the forrest with a preamp
500m away. Sorry if you had to wait for our numbers when the runner was
occupying the TX.
It was fun and we might consider to go all in next year doing this one serious,
very good activity.
Antennas
160m: 39mh vertical
80m: 4-SQ
40m: 3/3el + 4-SQ
20m: 6/6/6el + 5el + 4el @EU
15m: 6/6el + 5el
10m: 6/6el + 6el @46m
Radios: 2xFT1000MP MKV
Amps: 4CX1500B + ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB)
RX: 3-band vertical + preamp 500m away from main antennas
CQ-M score
Posted by sm2wmv
on May 29, 2013
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Pouring some concrete
Posted by sm2wmv
on May 20, 2013
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I am spending the week down at the station preparing for WPX CW coming up and also doing some work on the house. I decided to get a concrete floor in the room where I have the openASC driver cards and also the pump for the water in the house. For some reason only half of the floor was concrete and the rest was sand, so I decided to change that. It was a bit tough work though mixing the concrete will the drill and doing it by myself, I had a walk with buckets down and pour it. It did harden quite fast so I had to hurry as well…when I do the big room we need to be more people and also I need to use a real concrete mixer.
Last week I also built a unit which will solve the inband issues I had with PTTing that I will try to install tomorrow so I have plenty of time fixing if something doesn’t work as intended. On Thursday I am going to get a visit from my father together with SM3LIC and SM3UZS which will be fun. LB3HC will arrive on Thursday evening and will be spending a few days at SJ2W and also working WPX CW with us.
I also finished up some minor things on the house, so now two sides are completely done and one side is 95% done, so pretty much just one side left to do, which I hope to have done in June so the rest of the year can be spent on radio stuff.
Grounding work
Posted by sm2wmv
on May 15, 2013
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I spent a few days down at SJ2W. I had a couple of computers I had gotten from work that will fit well into the shack upgrading a couple of the computers a bit. It’s old P4 but the latest models and with 4GB RAM, so they will be useful as logging computers. SM2XJP said he could come up and get them so I got to ride with him down to the QTH and when I got there SM2LIY was already there.
The weather was bad most of the days but I managed to get the inband electronics installed and me and SM2LIY played around a bit trying it out in CQ-M. I decided to try a W7IUV preamp instead of the MMIC I had built but after a little while the W7IUV acted very strange and I suspect I fried it, so we put the MMIC back and it seem to work OK. However we plan to move the vertical to a location which is SE from the main antennas, which should be a direction that we rarely beam much, especially not with the bigger antennas. I noticed a problem though which I have made a little card with a micro-controller that will solve.
I got a lot of stuff attached to the ground system we laid down last year. Now I feel quite confident in the grounding of the shack, and since the coaxes between the barn and shack gets disconnected, only direct path from the antennas to the shack are the control cables. I will add GDTs to these along with the MOVs that are already in place.
Me and SM2XJP also went to SM2RMG and picked up two K-600 tower sections, manufatured by the CUE DEE company which was created by the famous SM2DMU. SM2RMG had gotten them from work and gave them to us for free. One will be used to help making the foundation of the military tower. SM2UVU is working on making a plate that attaches the base bearing to the K-600 tower section.
Keep tuned…
Hopefully I’ll spend most of next week down at the QTH getting more work done.
Some various pictures
Posted by sm2wmv
on May 4, 2013
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I was going to drill holes in the guy wire ring plate that SM2DMU donated to us. But it was very hard to try to measure out where to drill the holes so I will take with me the small 20cm piece of tower I have down at SJ2W and use it to mark out where the holes should be. I was thinking about making a template in paper but it’s so big that it will be tricky, so easiest way is to use the small piece of tower instead.
I have recovered from the flu so I will be going down to SJ2W probably on Wednesday and stay there at least until Sunday, maybe longer. Hopefully I’ll get some work done. We need to go to pick up a couple of K-600 sections from SM2RMG that will be used for the base of the military tower project.
