Here are some more pictures taken by SM2WMV, so they are not as good quality as the ones from SM3JLA but they still tell the story.
The setup in the contest was,
FT2K + 4-1000A amp on 80m with the 4-SQ + beverages
FT1K + 4CX1500B amp on 40-10m
TS850 + ACOM 1000 on 160,40,20,15,10m
TS930 hooked up to the RX output of the FT1K for in-band listening
Antennas:
160m: 39m high vertical
80m: 4-SQ
40m: 3el @60m + vertical
20m: 6/6/6el + 4el @EU
15m: 6/6el + 5el
10m: 6/6el
This weekend was a lot of fun. We had as goal to beat 7 million points, which was our best result ever @SM2HWG QTH during the good year of 2003. We were a bit skeptic considering that the solar flux was so low, but man did we crush that result and even broke the Swedish M/S record by SK3W back in 2000. However it will probably not survive the log check, since the margin is too low, still its a result we are very happy about especially considering stuff are far from optimal, especially when it comes to flexibility. We are most proud of our 80 and 40m mults and the very high pts/q average (~2.15) considering how short time 15 was open and practically without 10m, and getting 40 zones on 2 bands was awesome.
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): 47.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 225 20 77
80: 527 34 134
40: 1852 40 155
20: 1842 40 146
15: 558 36 136
10: 38 8 38
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Total: 5042 178 686 Total Score = 9,370,080
Club: Worldwide Young Contesters
WOW! This was really an awesome experience! We had hoped for 7 meg but we were a bit skeptic considering the low solar flux, some kind of wet fantasy would be to reach the current SM M/S record, which is at 8.6 meg by SK3W back in 2000. We did reach it, however we doubt that we have enough marginal to pass it during log check.
The low bands were amazing during the first night, and during daytime we had great openings to JA/US on 40m, which produces great 3 pts runs. On Saturday night we got aurora and K-index 4, but as expected this gave us great US runs on 15/20m which was a blast. However we were really afraid of what to expect of how the bands would be in the rest of the contest. Luckily the bands didn’t suffer that extremely much, even though the following night (Sunday morning) was quite a struggle.
We missed 30 minutes on Sunday morning due to a relay which failed, and SM2WMV was woken up from his beauty sleep (much needed) to walk outside in -20C to bypass the relay box.
9L5VT was an awesome 6-band qso. Also working ZL8X during aurora conditions on 15m during the night, and working them long path on Saturday morning on 80m.
Things at the QTH are yet not optimal, its actually far from. We haven’t got enough flexibility antenna wise (especially 40/20m). We had one radio always on 80m, and two radios which were run/mult depending on situation, but only 160m on one radio which made the result suffer compared to last year.
10m sucked, almost no openings at all except some skew path openings via scatter on Sunday.
Next one is probably CQ 160 CW, cu! Check the webpage for more information about the station and everything that
goes on (updated frequently).
This CQWW DX SSB was awesome and the goal which was to beat the Swedish record was accomplished. However I didn’t think this was going to be possible this year but everything went well, no breakdowns but the operator should have done some more intensive SO2R and move more mults, so the mult total is a bit low but I am overall very happy about the first serious CQWW SSB contest since 2000 (!).
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SM2WMV
Station: SJ2W
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 45
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 220 10 51
80: 281 16 72
40: 1287 34 103
20: 1867 33 95
15: 1182 32 96
10: 49 14 36
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Total: 4886 139 453 Total Score = 6,023,600
Club: Worldwide Young Contesters
Comments:
I am to tired to write anything. A bit low maybe on mults but overall
I am VERY pleased with a new SM record which was set as my goal
to beat for the solar peak. So what should I do now? I guess
another goal I've had is to do 500 dxcc and 5000q so that will be
the motivation and try to keep up with the OH:s. I mainly feel I
need to improve flexibility at the station plus move more mults!
Check the website for a write up in the future and information
about the station. It contains a lot of information what happens
every week!
http://www.sj2w.se/
I will operate this CQWW DX SSB contest as SOAB for the first time at this new QTH. I haven’t done SO2R on SSB for several years so it will be interested to see how rusty I am. I have borrowed an SB220 from SM2EKM which will be used for the 2nd radio and probably for running on 80m. I don’t have 160m on that one so I will need to QSX sometimes with the FT1K on 160 to get some mults. However we are not allowed to be over 1850, which is a big limitation so to get mults on 160 I will need to CQ a lot, so I will probably end up with more qsos on 160 than on 80m.
It will be very interesting to see how well it goes against the hard OH competition. There are two SOAB on OH0 (OH0Z = OH6UM and OH0B = OH2UA) plus both OH4A and OH8X who I think is in the same category if not assisted.
Only real worry is that I have been having trouble with the neck, shoulders and back lately but I am trying to stretch it out and hopefully survive the contest. I have prepared for this since last year so something special will be needed to knock me out of this one!
Only thing left to do is that I am trying to put up a 2el inv vee yagi towards Europe for 40m as a complement to the 3el and vert. Hope to work you in the contest!
