Another great contest with a new Scandinavian record. 7th contest in a row now with a record where 4 have been Scandinavian records.

                    CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): LB3HC SM2LIY SM2UVU SM2WMV
Station: SJ2W

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    1
   80:   98
   40:  396
   20: 1842
   15: 1643
   10:  918
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Total: 4898  Prefixes = 1532  Total Score = 17,179,848

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

What a blast! Even though we had a bit of dismantled crew we managed to get a
new Scandinavian record. SM2LIY had the worst back pain of his life and could
barely get out of bed at times, but still spent long shifts in the chair. We
had LB3HC who flew in from Oslo and helped us out and also SM2UVU came up to
make a 12h stint in the chair between being occupied by his regular work.

I was a bit dissapointed on Sunday morning of our score during Saturday, but
Sunday was so good that even though 40m was absolutely horrible up here we
could reach all our targets, which was 4800 QSOs, 1450 PFX and over 17 million
points. However there is no way to compete with our friends further south and
to the west with 40m in the shape it was. Propagations on 15 and 10 were
absolutely amazing most of the weekend. Because of the shortage in operators or
their health, we could not keep the "inband" station that does S&P
on the RUN band occuiped all the time. We had a MULT station hooked up but it
was barely used.

It was fun to have a Scandinavian team to battle with as well in OG9X, they had
almost caught up to us on Sunday morning but luckily we could pull ahead during
Sunday (cqcontest.net scoreboard is exciting).

Antennas
160m: 1/4 vert
80m: 4-SQ
40m: 3/3el + 2/2el + 4-SQ
20m: 6/6/6el + 5/5el + 4el @EU
15m: 6/6el + 5el
10m: 6/6el + 6el @46m
RX inband: 3-band vertical ~450m away + single verticals for 40 and 80

RUN: FT1000MKV + ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB)
INBAND (S&P on run band): K3
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We got a good margin on the Scandinavian record, an awesome weekend!

   
                 Russian DX Contest

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SE2T SM2IUF SM2LIY SM2WMV
Station: SJ2W

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Countries  Oblasts
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  160:   171     13      43        51
   80:   226     23      53        61
   40:   574    456      82        71
   20:   406    496      90        73
   15:   314    317      78        68
   10:   157    106      75        60
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Total:  1848   1411     421       384  Total Score = 17,131,205

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

We haven't done an effort in Russian DX for a few years but this time we decided
it was time to try to get the Scandinavian record now when we have some sunspots
and propagations were really good. We worked 2232 RUN QSOs, 657 S&P on the
Run band and 370 QSOs on the mult radio.

We also used the K3 for the first time on the "inband" position doing
S&P on the run band and we are very pleased with its performance. Now one of
the big summer projects is to get a tower up dedicated for that purpose so we
don't need to steal the antennas from the run radio when transmitting.

Cu in WPX SSB!

Antennas
160m: 1/4 vert
80m: 4-SQ
40m: 3/3el + 2/2el + 4-SQ
20m: 6/6/6el + 5/5el + 4el @EU
15m: 6/6el + 5el
10m: 6/6el + 6el @46m
RX inband: 3-band vertical ~450m away + single verticals for 40 and 80

RUN: FT1000MKV + ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB)
INBAND (S&P on run band): K3
MULT: FT1000 MKV + ACOM 1000
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Check the website for more information and continous updates of what goes on at
the station.
http://www.sj2w.se/contest/

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SM2IUF, SM2LIY and SM2UVU worked the ARRL 10m contest and managed to get the 5th SM record in a row this autumn, can it get much better? I doubt it.

                    ARRL 10-Meter Contest

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SM2IUF SM2LIY SM2UVU
Station: SJ2W

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 31

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   CW: 1018   159
  SSB:  588   145
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Total: 1606   304  Total Score = 1,595,392

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

We had some hope for good conditions on 10m, and they arrived, so we could claim
a new SM M/S record. First night started with some weak ionoscatter signals from
EU before band opened up in the morning. At Saturday afternoon the Aurora
arrived and helped keep the band open to NA during the evening and it was some
sporadic polar openings at night. Sunday evening was not as disturbed, but was
still some weak openings to NA in the evening with last NA QSO at 23:33z. Only
missed WY of the US states, had a hard time when K6KGP could copy
"J2W?" but then disappeared after a lot of repeats. Better luck next
time.

Thanks for the QSOs. QSL will be put in LoTW and EQSL, and if paper needed
direct via SM2LIY

Antennas
10m: 6/6el + 6el @46m
RX inband: 3-band vertical ~450m away

RUN: FT1000MKV + ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB)
INBAND (S&P on run band): FT1000MKV
N1MM Logger