CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW Call: SJ2W Operator(s): SE2T SM2EZT SM2IUF SM2LIY SM2UVU SM2WMV Station: SJ2W Class: M/S HP QTH: Da Traesk Operating Time (hrs): 48 Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 136 15 61 80: 454 32 112 40: 1656 39 143 20: 1830 39 132 15: 1323 40 135 10: 607 38 141 ------------------------------ Total: 6006 203 724 Total Score = 11,439,180 Club: Worldwide Young Contesters Comments: We had a few new operators which was a great addition, since it made working the contest a lot easier with more rest, hopefully they are interested in joining us for more efforts. We did our second effort using S&P on the running band and this time it worked better. We RX with just verticals located far away from the TX antennas and this needs to be improved. However we logged 892 additional QSOs with the "inband" radio with 60% of these being 3-pt QSOs and many mults. A project for next year will be to put up a tower with yagis instead to improve this more. Our goal in CQWW CW 2011 was to work 6000Q, we didn't make it that time but this time we managed to get > 6000Q. However it wont be that high after log check by CQWW but at least we claimed it. The score is a bit higher than the 11 Meg in 2011 but our mult total is a lot lower. The first day wasn't really good and we suffered a lot on the lowbands. It got a lot better on Sunday but we couldn't make up for the lost mults. In the SSB part we got favored more by the propagation's and could get into top 5 EU but this time we had no chance against the guys further south. Still we're very happy to have improved our Scandinavian record a bit more. 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): FT1000MKV MULT1: FT5000 + Expert SPE MULT2: IC-7400 + 4CX1500B N1MM Logger
Monthly Archives: November 2013
CQWW DX CW 2013
QBL PA work and storm damage
Now when the winter has come and outdoor work has pretty much stopped, I’ve started the work on the QBL amplifier. I got some transformers from SM3MXR and also a tube in good condition plus some parts for the sockets, thank you Einar!
Also we suffered from one of the worst storms for a long time @SJ2W. Luckily everything was fine except the driven element of the 40m top yagi twisted on the boom, but it’s an easy fix. A couple of trees fell as well and THAT is the reason why I don’t want big trees close to guy wires because they can’t be trusted!
Safety stop #1
I forgot to post this update on the website. Me and SM2XJP installed the safety stop on the military tower. It’s not the best solution but it should work just fine. If for some reason the tower starts to rotate when it shouldn’t it will unplug itself. I saw this solution first on a multi-million dollar installation of a parabolic dish used for research and thought it was a neat solution.