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A shitty welcome

Posted by on April 29, 2012 1 comment

When me and Teemu (SM0W) arrived at SJ2W today after a nice weekend in Umeå at an SSA ham meeting and I got down into the basement I was met with 10cm of water on the floor with poop floating around. Luckily it was about 2cm from the granger amplifier so we arrived just in time. After a few hours of work from a clean up crew they did emtpy the crap-well. So now we will see how much I get from the insurance company but luckily no radio gear was damaged. However one room in the basement has got a wooden floor which is now ruined. This kind of sucks the motivation out of me and we will see how much money I will have left after this for antenna projects, might need to put all the plans on hold (aaargh!).

Anyway, I showed a video tour of SJ2W during this ham meeting and I have published it on youtube. Currently it is in Swedish but I have plans to make a dubbed version in English.

CQ WPX SSB

Posted by on March 26, 2012 Comments Off on CQ WPX SSB

New SM record

                    CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SM2LIY
Station: SJ2W

Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 36

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    0
   80:   69
   40:  438
   20:  854
   15: 1098
   10:   50
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Total: 2509  Prefixes = 1102  Total Score = 6,516,126

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Started quite OK, but Aurora started saturday morning.
Much better conds on sunday, even 10m had some openings in the
morning to Asia.
15 was fine on sunday during all day.
Best NA-conds on 20m in the end of the contest.
TNX for QSOs. QSL LOTW, EQSL or direct via SM2LIY.
CU in CW part, M/S.
Per / SM2LIY

CQWW DX CW 2011

Posted by on November 28, 2011 2 comments 
                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SE2T SM2LIY SM2WMV SM3JLA
Station: SJ2W

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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  160:  139    20       77
   80:  388    32      111
   40: 1798    39      150
   20: 1418    40      146
   15:  777    39      148
   10:  697    40      162
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Total: 5217   210      794  Total Score = 11,003,840

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Not the best of propagations, but we are a bit amazed by the number of mults
available in this contest. We struggled bad on the highbands trying to get any
decent runs going. Only amazing part except for the multipliers was the start
on 40, which produced 983 qsos in 7 hours and with a 2.6 pts/q average. The
rest of the contest felt slow and I believe that USA should move their
thanksgiving weekend, to make proper room for the old farts out there giving
away a few qsos who are not participants. At least it feels like the activity
from US was quite low. However 845 NA qsos on 40m kind of contradicts that.

We missed our goal of 6000q by quite a lot, 3298 qsos the first 24h but Sunday
was a struggle. Probably we suffered mainly from too low sunspots, which didn't
give us really long openings on 10/15m. But even if K1LZ was +40 on 10m we could
not get any runs going, we can't really say why.

New Scandinavian record, so we are still very pleased with the outcome, but it
makes you wonder what is possible if we one year get really lucky during most
of the 48h.

Congrats the "bald team with kulmage" at SK3W for a great score close to the
record by the Paksalo Philharmonics boys in the east in 1999.

Check the website for details,
http://www.sj2w.se/contest/
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[Show as slideshow]

PA3GEG recording

Posted by on November 7, 2011 Comments Off on PA3GEG recording

PA3GEG sent me a recording from the CQWW DX SSB 2011 contest. It is SM2LIY who is the operator and you can hear that first he is transmitting with the 6/6/6el stack at USA and also the 4el fixed at Europe while working PA3GEG. But when some US stations call he switches over to just the stack which you can hear very clearly since his signal drops by a large amount.

Here is a also a recording I found on youtube. This time its me (SM2WMV) as operator next to RL3A who you hear in the beginning of the clip.

Do you know of more recording with SJ2W in them? Please send me the information, mike_at_sm3wmv.com