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Finally an update

Posted by sm2wmv on April 6, 2015 Comments Off

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
----------------------------------------
  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
----------------------------------------
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

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SAC results + updates

Posted by sm2wmv on March 2, 2015 Comments Off

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.

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ARRL DX CW

Posted by sm2wmv on February 26, 2015 Comments Off

I had plans to do SOAB in ARRL CW but I didn’t really feel motivated so SM2LIY said he was willing to do SB 15m to test the new stack. Propagation’s seems like they pretty much perfect for us up in the north. SFI was too low to keep bands open very long but each evening a bit or aurora opened the band up and he was able to run US until 03z on Saturday and until 0330z on Sunday.

Very close to a new European record, only some 20-30 qsos from it which was suprising.

                   ARRL DX Contest, CW

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

Class: SOSB/15 HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 31

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:           
   80:           
   40:           
   20:           
   15: 1943    61
   10:           
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Total: 1943    61  Total Score = 355,386

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Total QSOs 2264, a lot of dupes...
Conditions were very good, and night conditions lasted to about 03z.
The new stack we put up in autumn played very well!
Was quite close to European record that was made from Azores, but fell short
of some 10 QSOs.

Rig FT1000 MKV with extra preamp.
Antenna 6/6/6/6/6 on 60m tower.
Acom 2000 sponsered by Ojojoj Music AB.

73 / Per SM2LIY

9A CW + various electronics

Posted by sm2wmv on January 27, 2015 Comments Off

I did the 9A CW just before Christmas and it seems to be a #1 EU win so very happy about that.

I also built some on the QBL amplifier, did a few things down at SJ2W during my vacation and lately I have been trying to figure out if I should start to sell not only PCBs for antenna switches but maybe also complete switches. I think the result seem to come out pretty good and its high quality stuff, so maybe its worth it. Its a way to fund the progress @SJ2W which seem to be a big black hole when it comes to money 🙂

                    Croatian CW Contest

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SM2WMV
Station: SJ2W

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 19:11
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:  109    27
   80:  299    43
   40:  338    56
   20:  436    57
   15:  343    57
   10:  161    54
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Total: 1686   294  Total Score = 1,169,532

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

This was quite fun. I didn't know if I would do it serious or not. During the
time I did operate I did it serious but I took a long nap during the night. I
don't know how much I lost because of that but because DX activity is so low in
this contest I don't think it hurts too much when Europe is still sleeping. I
had intended to sleep 3 hours though but it ended up being almost 5.

40m was horrible during the night, the MUF went below 7 MHz so I could not hear
any Europe so I had to spend a lot of time on 80 and 160m. Otherwise conds were
really good except as stated the DX activity is very low in this one. Tried to
run some on 40m during daylight and it was monster signals from JA/US but no
callers.

Fun to hear UT2G, YR1A, UA5A with high numbers. Not sure of their category
though so it will be interesting to see.

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

FT1000MKV + 4-1000A
K3 + ACOM 2000 (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB)
N1MM Logger