Last weekend me and Anna + Hicco spent some time at the station. I mainly spent time getting the rotation of the Moskojärvi tower to work. Me and my neighbor also spent time planning out where to put the inband tower on his land. The plans turned out great so now we have a fun project for next year. Left to do getting the Mosko-tower rotating is putting the pot in place, running a bit more cables and configuring the rotator board for the openASC system. So hopefully its finished before CQWW DX CW in a few weeks.
Monthly Archives: November 2014
CQWW DX SSB 2014
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB Call: SJ2W Operator(s): LB3HC SE2T SM2LIY SM2UVU SM2WMV Station: SJ2W Class: M/S HP QTH: Da Traesk Operating Time (hrs): 48 Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 76 9 50 80: 187 18 77 40: 1010 32 108 20: 2925 38 139 15: 1698 38 134 10: 919 35 133 ------------------------------ Total: 6815 170 641 Total Score = 10,956,610 Club: Worldwide Young Contesters Comments: This year we were not able to compete with the top M/S teams, too much aurora. However still decent even though our multipliers were quite low compared to the top teams, mainly seem to be down on 10m probably due to the aurora. Last year about 2.36 pts/q and this year 1.98 pts/q which kind of tells the story. We need to get the new 15m stack rotatable, standing in mud trying to rotate it in windy conditions and getting it fixed with hatched straps isn't the most fun but it sure does play nicely. Still could need a few more operators, its tough trying to stay focused during the whole contests. 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 FT5000 + SPE FT1000MKV + ACOM 2000 FT1000MKV + ACOM 1000 K3 for inband N1MM Logger
Various work
Some various stuff has been done lately but nothing major. I’ve been working quite a lot on electronics for the QBL amplifier project and I’ve ordered these boards and components for them. So hopefully there will be some updates soon with some details of that. I also spent a couple of days at SJ2W settings the station up for CQWW SSB and started getting the rotor for the Moskojärvi tower so we can hopefully rotate it soon. SM2UVU has built a box for it that I hope to get installed next weekend.
I also went up on a trip to SM2OAN where we put up a 24m rotatable tower for him. Next year he will start putting up the antennas in it and I believe plans are to have a 10m stack in it and 12 + 17m monobanders.