Scandinavian Activity Contest, SSB
Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SM2WMV
Station: SJ2W
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 128 40
40: 316 55
20: 1353 69
15: 517 63
10: 235 54
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Total: 2549 281 Total Score = 1,781,259
Club: Worldwide Young Contesters
Comments:
My first SAC SOAB since 2006, hopefully it wont take 8 years until I do the next
one. I had fun, it was quite easy to do 24h even though my body starts aching
when sitting still for 24h. Even tried the CT1BOH style of pee can so I
wouldn't need to lose any time in the chair. It worked, but I need to modify it
so I need to concentrate less :)
Felt a bit handicapped only having one amplifier on 15/10, so when doing DUAL
CQ on these bands I had to go LP with one radio which was noticeable. Need to
get this fixed somehow.
It was a very fun battle with OH2UA @OH8X. We did take turns of being #1 during
most of the contest on the scoreboard (cqcontest.net) and it ended up with about
6000-7000 points between us, so it will be a close race. Its amazing the amount
of mults the Finns are able to get, even though I am quite happy with my mult
count Toni had 21 more mults. I missed some easy ones on 10m, tried to move
them during whole Sunday but I didn't get SP, ON, OM, EU etc on 10m which was
frustrating. Also very frustrating with some people who didn't want to move but
I must say that most people tried so cheers for that.
It is funny how a 24h contest end up so close in both the CW leg and SSB leg in
the battle of the north. In the CW leg 1.6% difference between OH8X and SJ2W and
in the SSB leg about 0.4% :)
The new 15m stack (5x6el) worked great even though its not rotatable from the
shack at the moment, so I ran out on Sunday morning and turned it towards Asia
by hand. Except the amplifier issue the station is wonderful to do SOAB now, it
works really well and is very simple to operate.
Fun to work the first QSOs with my good buddy Dave (N2NL) as WH7AA on 20 and
40m. He managed to work me on 40m with a vertical 20m dipole, so thanks for
that :)
New SM record! Thanks for the QSOs.
Antennas
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
K3 + ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB)
FT1000MKV + 4-1000 (80-20m)
N1MM Logger
Check the website for more information and continous updates of what goes on
at the station.
http://www.sj2w.se/contest/
