Finally an update

Posted by sm2wmv on April 6, 2015

Its been a lot going on this winter. Me and a couple of friends have started a company that I’ve been working a bit in so I have had less time to spend on the radio projects. The QBL project is at an stand still because of lack of motivation which is partly because the labs at work are a big mess now since they are re-building the whole house so everything is temporary and a big mess.

However some progress is being made and I am planning and starting to work a bit on the summer projects. The house need to be finished outdoor, so that is the higher priority this spring as soon as we get > +5C degrees we can paint the boards and get that work done.

Plans for 2015
Antennas
    * Repair top 6el for 20m in the 6/6/6el stack
    * Put up 28m tower for inband, need to be rebuilt and made rotatable
    * Put up 5el monobanders on 10, 15 and 20m. 2el fullsize for 40m.
    * Put up vertical for 80m+160m for inband
    * Put up HI-Z 4-SQ RX array (donated by SA0AZT)
    * Maybe prepare for moving the 80m 4-SQ in 2016

So lots of stuff to be done but hopefully we get good weather this summer as well!

Russian DX was also worked and it was an success,

                    Russian DX Contest

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): LB3HC SE2T SM2LIY SM2WMV
Station: SJ2W

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Countries  Oblasts
----------------------------------------
  160:   164     4       41        47
   80:   387   102       62        64
   40:   534   305       83        71
   20:   619   280       86        72
   15:   395   159       86        72
   10:   143    15       70        50
----------------------------------------
Total:  2242   865      428       376  Total Score = 16,704,708

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Fun as usual. I believe we did a better effort than last year, however
propagations were not as good and 10m was a real challenge to get the QSOs and
mults, mostly worked on side scatter. Also last year we had pretty even QSO
numbers between SSB and CW, maybe we should have done a bit more SSB this year
to keep rate up. We are quite pleased with the outcome and we will see who else
in EU have been M/S to see if we can place top 3 this year again. Wish more
teams joined the fun with the cqcontest.net scoreboard.

Antennas
160m: 39m vert
80m: 4-SQ
40m: 3/3el + 2/2el + 4-SQ
20m: 6/6/6el + 5/5el + 4el @EU
15m: 6/6/6/6/6el + 6/6el + 5el
10m: 6/6el + 6el @46m
8 beverages

FT1000MKV + ACOM 2000 (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB)
FT2000 + ACOM 1000
K3 for inband
N1MM+ Logger