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WAE, SAC CW

SM2LIY has been active in a few contests but I guess the only real serious effort was SAC CW last weekend. However propagation’s in all of these three events have been very poor, what a difference from what we have experienced before where most of the contests have been pretty good.

                   WAE DX Contest, CW

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

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  QTCs  Mults
-------------------------
   80:   35    20    92
   40:  210   285   180
   20:  453   903   174
   15:  224   226   142
   10:   23    12    32
-------------------------
Total:  945  1446   620  Total Score = 1,482,420

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Part time operation, we had forrest work this weekend to get rid of some trees
to make place for a new tower for inband operation.
Conditions was not the best, bad during day on 15 and especially bad on 10m on
saturday. Got beaten by 100 watters with small antennas on 15m calling the DX.
MUF even too low to call UA9 on 15m, had to beam to central EU and work them on
scatter. Same with NA during day, pointed to PY for QSOs. Many stations worked
at s1-s2 level.
Thats life under the oval at 64N when ms Aurora is visiting.

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 
K3 + ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB) 
Micro KEYER 2R openASC N1MM Logger 

Thanks to all callers, and also to those giving out QTCs.

73 Per SM2LIY
                    WAE DX Contest, SSB

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

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 36

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  QTCs  Mults
-------------------------
   80:   39     1   100
   40:  137   188   177
   20:  382   623   174
   15:  166   363   140
   10:    1     0     2
-------------------------
Total:  725  1175   593  Total Score = 1,126,700

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Ms Aurora was visiting again.

7Z1SJ 5-bander, the only station heard all weekend on 10m.

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 
K3 + ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB) 
Micro KEYER 2R openASC N1MM Logger 

Thanks to all callers, and also to those giving out QTCs.
CU in SAC CW next weekend!
 
73 Per SM2LIY
                    Scandinavian Activity Contest, CW

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

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:  287    44
   40:  609    59
   20:  747    58
   15:  155    42
   10:   30    19
-------------------
Total: 1828   222  Total Score = 913,086

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Looks like SC24 is giving up, more mults worked on 80m than on 15m, despite of
big stacks on 15m. Got 2 USA in log on 15m during the night on a short Aurora
opening. 7 JA worked on 15m. K-index swinging between 5 and 7 from sunday 03z
to the end.
Had some problems with N1MM+ and dual CQ, audio moved to other rx before i had
typed the whole call, often missed last letter, so had to put in longer CQs
than needed  to fix that problem. Also was some focus problem writing the call,
often last 2 letters in the call appeared in wrong order.

Thanks to all callers and to all who tried to move to other bands, also thanks
to Mike serving some very needed coffee.

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  
10m: 6/6el + 6el @46m 
K3 + ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB) 
TS590 + 4-1000 micro KEYER 2R openASC N1MM Logger+

WE4S recordings of SJ2W in WPX CW

Check this out, some recordings that Grady (WE4S) did of SJ2W during WPX CW.

http://we4s.us/sj2w-contest-station-2015-cq-wpx-cw/

Check out his blog also!

Lots of tables

Lately I have been down at the station and doing some work cleaning the barn and I have also modified some tables. I’ve also gotten aluminum ordered for lots of antennas and hopefully it will arrive soon so we can start working on that. I think one of the first things to do will be to build new elements for the top 20m Yagi so we can change that as soon as possible.

And I almost forgot about the nice surprise when I arrived at SJ2W. Again the basement was flooded with water from the well containing our poo. It has been raining a lot lately so rain water probably got into the well and then flooded the basement. I might need to fix this permanently next year, even if I am getting a hang of how to deal with these issues. I got the water pumped out of the well and all water out from the basement. SM2LIY burned a lot of wood in the fire place to get better circulation through the basement and while he was working the WPX CW contest I had the big fan that presses air from the top floor down into the basement running on full speed the whole time. On Monday it was pretty dry in the basement.

CQ WPX CW

SM2LIY claimed a new Scandinavian record SOAB HP Assisted in WPX CW!

                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

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

Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:    1
   80:   91
   40:  727
   20: 1128
   15: 1269
   10:   49
------------
Total: 3265  Prefixes = 1264  Total Score = 10,531,648

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Good conditions almost all weekend, got disturbed on sunday evening with some
Aurora. Station worked UFB as always :-)
QSL LoTW, EQSL or direct to SM2LIY.
Thanks for all callers and to Mike making coffe during the weekend :-)

73 / Per SM2LIY

Antennas 
160m: 39m vertical
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  
micro KEYER 2R
openASC
N1MM Logger+