I had a blast, everything worked great and claimed new SM record plus claimed #1 Scandinavia
Scandinavian Activity Contest, CW Call: SJ2W Operator(s): SM2WMV Station: SJ2W Class: SOAB HP QTH: Burtraesk Operating Time (hrs): 24 Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 80: 317 40 40: 787 61 20: 1071 73 15: 207 47 10: 7 5 ------------------- Total: 2389 226 Total Score = 1,296,788 Club: Worldwide Young Contesters Comments: This was really fun. I wasn't sure if I would operate the contest but felt pretty motivated so I decided to do it. I did DUAL CQ for most of the contest and I need to practice a lot more, even though I felt it worked pretty well. I managed to do the best CW rate hour I believe we have had at SJ2W with 194 QSOs and this really makes SAC a blast to operate. I have never really been fond of the contest since normal SO2R operation with hunting mults does not work. DUAL CQ has been done for a long time by operators in SAC including myself, but this was my first time I did it pretty much all the time regardless of rate and I felt it helped my mults. I didn't move that extremely much mults (I think 14 successful moves but a lot of tries) and still had pretty decent mults. However I expect that my UBN will suffer from this type of operating but hopefully not too much. As usual it was a blast to see the progress at cqcontest.net, especially the battle with Kim, OH6KZP @OH2BH who I before the contest thought would be unbeatable but propagation's were good enough to have good enough US runs on 20 and 40m to be able to get enough point advantage towards him. JAs were very active on especially 15m with tremendous signals. Rumors say that OH0Z placed in the middle between me and Kim, some day I hope the OH0s will join the fun with the online scoreboard as well :) I am happy that OH0V was not QRV :) Station worked flawlessly, only wish I didn't have shared towers for 20/40m, makes you a little handicapped but I guess I could always put up a bit more aluminum. DXLog with two keyboards used and it workged great! The D1 prefixes were not recognized so I expect the score to go up by a few points after those are scored by the SAC robot. Seems like a new SM record too which is surprising considering 10m, but the lowbands were really good instead. Antennas 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 K3 + ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB) TS590SG + ACOM 2000A (Borrowed from SM2OAN)
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