A lot has happened lately and the major thing is that I finally signed up at a drivers school to get my drivers license. SM2XJP has driven me around so much during the years and now I got tired of being dependent on others so I went to a drivers school after my girlfriend Anna had heard some recommendation of it. And seven lessons after I had my license, it took about a month and was a lot easier than I expected. Me and SM2XJP looked at a few cars and we finally found one that we both liked. It’s a 2006 VW Caddy so I can load a lot of stuff 🙂
Here is an update of the stuff that has happened lately. Now with summer more updates and here is the first for the summer.
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
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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
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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
The results from the Scandinavian Activity Contest were published today and we managed to with both CW and SSB in Sweden. I also managed to get #1 in Scandinavia. Last time a Swede won SAC SSB was in 1982 so It was about time and hopefully I can repeat this more times. SM2LIY placed #1 in Sweden in CW and #4 in Scandinavia. More info on http://www.sactest.net
One of the winter storms tore off half of the reflector on the top 20m yagi, so some repairs need to be done this summer. I think I will replace all elements just to be safe since it is quite a task to lower the antenna to fix it. I might use the old elements for a less critical beam, maybe a 17m yagi? 🙂
I have been working a lot lately so not much progress on stuff at the station. However spring is approaching and I will start to prepare for the summer projects where the main task will be fixing the last stuff on the house outside and also trying to get the inband tower up. I have a 5el for 20 and 10m but I am in need of a 5el for 15m as well. If I can’t get hold of one used I will build one plus also a 2el for 40m. The tower is a WIBE tower that I got in a trade from SM2EKM that is 28m high and I will weld some reinforcements on it so we can make it rotatable.
