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CQWW SSB 2011, one for the record books

Posted by on October 31, 2011 2 comments

Just amazing what a contest!

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SE2T SM2LIY SM2WMV SM3JLA
Station: SJ2W

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:  121    11       55
   80:  319    23       90
   40: 1681    36      129
   20: 3343    39      145
   15: 1132    38      150
   10:  946    40      153
------------------------------
Total: 7542   187      722  Total Score = 15,151,212

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

WOW, this was really a great experience. I didn't think these kind of numbers
were possible up at 64 degrees north, but with quite good amount of sunspots
and no aurora during most of the contest made it possible. However the bands
dropped out during Sunday afternoon so we ended up running the end of the
contest beaming south on the lowbands. But since we hadn't done this previously
it produced quite good rates.

This was a great combination of 10m being alive and producing the most number
of mults while the lowbands were still quite good, except for 160m. 40m was
amazing during the first night.

The Swedish record was at a bit over 9 million points and we set an optimistic
goal of 10 million with 6000 qsos.

CU in CQWW CW

Check the webpage for more information,
http://www.sj2w.se/contest/

SJ2W
All bands - All modes
QSOs (with dupes) - By time

| Hr |          |
-----------------
| 00 |      145 |
| 01 |      127 |
| 02 |      152 |
| 03 |      143 |
| 04 |      182 |
| 05 |      136 |
| 06 |      138 |
| 07 |      146 |
| 08 |      159 |
| 09 |      232 |
| 10 |      224 |
| 11 |      224 |
| 12 |      155 |
| 13 |      182 |
| 14 |      153 |
| 15 |      198 |
| 16 |      211 |
| 17 |      213 |
| 18 |      142 |
| 19 |      134 |
| 20 |       99 |
| 21 |      165 |
| 22 |      157 |
| 23 |      188 |
| 00 |      183 |
| 01 |      237 |
| 02 |      206 |
| 03 |      132 |
| 04 |      106 |
| 05 |       78 |
| 06 |      166 |
| 07 |      179 |
| 08 |      145 |
| 09 |      142 |
| 10 |      124 |
| 11 |      136 |
| 12 |      200 |
| 13 |      168 |
| 14 |      176 |
| 15 |       65 |
| 16 |      154 |
| 17 |      185 |
| 18 |      136 |
| 19 |      208 |
| 20 |      117 |
| 21 |      184 |
| 22 |      140 |
| 23 |       96 |
-----------------
|    |     7668 |

SJ2W - Continents
All bands - SSB
QSOs (with dupes)

|   EU   |   NA   |   SA   |   AF   |   AS   |   OC   |
-------------------------------------------------------
|  39.2% |  40.6% |   2.3% |   1.1% |  13.9% |   3.0% |
-------------------------------------------------------

Top section finished and SK2AU 80m vertical

Posted by on October 25, 2011 1 comment

This weekend we had plans to maybe get the 18m tower erected. But unfortunately the neighbor hadn’t the tractor at home so he was not able to remove the logs. I doubt we would have had time to get it up anyway, but now we are at least closer to the goal. I finished up the top section and me and SM2XLL carried it out to where it will be hoisted from. We also leveled out the base plate. On Sunday SM2XJP and I did mount the guy wire attachments on the top section and I managed to find the wires needed to put up the tower, so hopefully we can do it the weekend after CQWW DX SSB.

I did also code a lot of openASC. The latest revisions which haven’t been tested at the station yet contained some bugs which I were not able to find, so I went back to a known good revision and fixed the problems I found trying to fix the latest revision. Now I will need to add functionality and test it at the station.

On Sunday me and SM2XJP also built the 80m vertical for SK2AU. They had an CUE DEE vertical earlier which they lost some winters ago, so I ordered aluminum to repair it (the bottom 15m). It just took a couple of hours to do it, guess we are getting used to make pipes fit nowadays 🙂 So hopefully they can now get it up before the winter at the club house.

I also built some stubs today for 20 and 40m which will be used for radio 3/4 at the station. I will add more stubs in the future but radio 3 will be operational on 20/40 as a mult station during CQWW this weekend, hence I did put priority on those two bands. We will be operating in the M/S category, so look for us! If you record the contest and work us, then please send the recordings to us, we really would appreciate that.

Known operators right now, will be SE2T, SM2LIY, SM2WMV and SM3JLA.

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SJ2W recorded in LU

Posted by on October 20, 2011 Comments Off on SJ2W recorded in LU

This was recorded when SM2LIY was operating the Northern Activity Contest in October. The contest occurs the first Thursday of each month. Seems like it was rather good propagation’s during this contest towards LU.

I don’t know the callsign of the station who recorded except that he was in Argentina and used a dipole at 5m height.

If you have the possibility to record us when we are on the air it is very appreciated. It is always fun to hear how we sound on the other side!

More details made

Posted by on October 19, 2011 Comments Off on More details made

I did some boom-element brackets today. One so that I can convert the 5el CUE DEE 20m monobander to hairpin match and the other just because I’ve misplaced or used the other plate for something else. I need to make a “transfer pipe” between the rotor to the top 61mm steel pipe, some more of the details for the driven element and mast to boom plate before the weekend. I also need to go and buy some exhaust clamps and clamps for the guy wires to the tower.