CQ-M International DX Contest

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

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 19

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Mults
---------------------------
  160:    15     0     15
   80:   115     0     30
   40:   246    56     42
   20:   481   266     69
   15:   513    66     71
   10:    39     0     22
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Total:  1409   388    249  Total Score = 1,006,209

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Was nice conditions this time, we did not plan to work serious, but became quite
good result. We worked some inband QSOs as preparation for WPX CW.
It worked quite ok listening to a 3 band vertical in the forrest with a preamp
500m away. Sorry if you had to wait for our numbers when the runner was
occupying the TX.

It was fun and we might consider to go all in next year doing this one serious,
very good activity.

Antennas
160m: 39mh vertical
 80m: 4-SQ
 40m: 3/3el   + 4-SQ
 20m: 6/6/6el + 5el  + 4el @EU
 15m: 6/6el   + 5el
 10m: 6/6el   + 6el @46m

Radios: 2xFT1000MP MKV
Amps:   4CX1500B + ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB)
RX: 3-band vertical + preamp 500m away from main antennas

New record, yay!

                    CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

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

Class: SOSB20 HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 34

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:     
   80:     
   40:     
   20: 3059
   15:     
   10:     
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Total: 3059  Prefixes = 1147  Total Score = 7,202,013

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Aweful propagations at the beginning of the contest. The first 40 minutes were
decent, but then it was downhill. I decided there was no idea to continue and
took offtime. When I woke up after a couple of hours the band was still dead,
so I slept a bit more and when I woke up again 20m was still quite bad, so I
wasted most of my off-time during the first day, which I guess was a good
choice. However it ended up being the way that I lost about 2 hours of the 36h
op-time, however I doubt it would have generated many QSOs.

The score is a claimed new Scandinavian record, but I don't know if I have been
accurate enough for it to pass log check. I tried my best, but there were so
extremely many QSOs that were pulled out of the noise because of the quite
varying propagations. Sunday was decent and it looked good but some small
aurora on Sunday evening made the rate drop. However it picked up great by the
end so I could speed above the current record. I am very happy about the result
considering how the propagations were.

It was really fun to follow the progress of the SH3Y team, a bunch of young
kids from all over Europe who went to SK3W and operated the contest in the M/M
category, shattering the current Swedish record. Congrats!

6/6/6el + 5el + 4el @EU
FT1000 MKV + ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB)

This weekend we had some visitors that came up from SM0. I did not plan any contest this weekend since the station is not yet fully functional but when SM0W called and asked if he could come and join us, since he had a work trip planned north during this week, I said OK. We will work as much as we can and luckily the station was in quite good shape before the contest, since I arrived already on Thursday evening. SA0AZT joined him on the trip north and I think he had a pleasant weekend at the SJ2W station.

On Thursday evening SM2LIY also joined and I noticed that the 60m tower did not turn. So I went out and the sound from the motor was the typical “one phase is missing” sound, so I suspected that a month ago when I tripped over a cable that I might have pulled something out of the rotor, and the suspicion was confirmed and easily fixed. However when I turned the tower I noticed that it seemed to have ice in the bottom bearing so with help from SM2XJP we took the blow tourch and got rid of the ice but when XJP turned the tower I noticed the bottom plate turning as well. So I took out the welder and welded it stuck to the bottom base and now it works as it should.

The contest sucked, it was horrible propagations. During the first night/morning we worked 69 qsos (!) which must be a bottom low for us. We had no openings at all on any band. It got better on Sunday but still not great, however we had a few nice moments of big runs and I think that SA0AZT at least enjoyed his time on the radio.

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                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SA0AZT SM0W SM2LIY SM2WMV
Station: SJ2W

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 38

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:    0     0
   80:   15    14
   40:  217    43
   20: 1382    61
   15:  564    58
   10:   41    26
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Total: 2219   202  Total Score = 1,344,714

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

SM0W had planned a work trip up north and asked if he could join and do ARRL. I
had not planned any operation but I said yes and we did our best. However
propagation's were horrible and after the first night/morning we had 69 qsos
(!).

SA0AZT also joined SM0W on the trip north and did a good job along with the
regular SM2LIY.

It got better on Sunday but the lowbands were really bad and 10m didn't really
open up towards north american except for a few sporadic openings via aurora
and side scatter to south america.

160m: 39m vert
 80m: 4-SQ
 40m: 3/3el
 20m: 6/6/6el
 15m: 6/6el
 10m: 6/6el + 6el @46m

Rig: 2xFT1000MKV
Amp: ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB) + 4CX1500B