SJ2W Contest Station

Finally an update!

Posted by sm2wmv on November 23, 2015 2 comments

I have been lazy updating the website lately, sorry for that. I have been very busy with a lot of different things and not much interesting stuff has happened down at SJ2W. I had planned to work SOAB in CQWW SSB but after messing with the WIFI-link during whole Friday I felt exhausted and ran extremely low on motivation so I spent the weekend doing other stuff instead. We have however gotten the WIFI-link to work UFB now, I have 97/97 MBit at SJ2W and the ping from the work QTH down to SJ2W is 4ms (!).

SM2NOG came by and we put up a rotatable dipole that I got a few years ago from SM2XLL. We figured that antenna would be a lot better at 30m height than the current vertical we have been using for inband. I did listen a bit and could get very close to our CQ frequency and still be able to hear people well on 20-10m. It does not work at all on the lowbands, so I will need to hook up the switch and the other vertical for that.

SM2EKM needed some climbing help at his QTH so I brought with me the climbing gear up north to the work QTH and since I was staying in Luleå a weekend (for the first time since early summer) I went to him and we put up a new 9el for 6m that he built (YU7EF design). It was icy and cold but it went very well and we were finished well before sunset.

WB4RFQ also came to visit. It was very fun because he emailed me and told me since he worked for Facebook he would come and visit Luleå for work. He wanted to get a tour of the station and I made him aware of SJ2W being 180km from Luleå (where I work) but he did not mind. I also asked him if he was allergic to dogs since I would have Hicco down at SJ2W for the weekend since Anna was traveling, but he did not mind. He came and we went for pizza, I gave him the tour and he told me some of the plans they have for a Club station in San Fransisco.

I have also worked some on a few electronic projects and I hope that I will get time during the XMAS break to start building on the QBL amplifier again.

Plans for CQWW CW will be that I will do SOSB 20m unassisted with SO2R inband setup and SM2LIY will do SOSB 15m assisted I believe. So make sure to work SJ2W and SM2M during CQWW CW!

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SAC SSB

Posted by sm2wmv on October 15, 2015 Comments Off

Last weekend we had invited some of the “new guys” who haven’t been doing ham radio for a long time. For some of them this was the first contest and it seems like they had a lot of fun. It was fun to see the excitement of SA2CLC who just lives ~2km from SJ2W after his first run shift in the chair. We did a small M/M with two radios and most of the time was operated by the new guys even though me and SM2LIY did some short shift. The participants were SA2CLC, SA2BLV, SA2TMS, SA2KNG and me + SM2LIY were the “teachers” this time. Hopefully they were excited enough that they want to do more contests even though propagation’s were absolutely awful this SAC SSB, but they didn’t seem to mind.

I had problems last weekend when leaving to go up to the work QTH again, that the sewer had plugged up. So I borrowed some equipment from a friend and got it loose after a few hours of work. I had SM2LIY as help and we managed to get it so that the water coming out of the sewer pipes were clear so most of the crap seemed to have been gone. I really need to fix this permanently some day.

After the SAC SSB contest I climbed the 60m tower and attached some WIFI-bridges that will be used to get a better internet connection to SJ2W and it will also deliver internet to my neighbor + SM2XJP. I attached it with three M8 screws each, it was a new experience to drill and tap holes at 52m height 🙂

I have also done some work on the new antenna switches. I will start selling complete switches this winter and right now I am working on getting them easy to produce and I will also launch a web shop. However I will keep on selling the boards as well, so people can build it themselves if they wish.

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Inband tower is up!

Posted by sm2wmv on September 28, 2015 Comments Off

This weekend was a great weekend. First off I managed to get the inband tower ready to be put up on Friday and Saturday evening by pulling a few more cables through it and carrying out all hardware so it would be fast and easy when the crane arrived. On Saturday SM3DMP, SM3CER, SM3BDZ, SM3PXO and SM3PXO son SA3BXA arrived. They had been talking about visiting for years but now they did so and we had a real blast. It was fun to listen to all stories about how they started out in the hobby etc. SM3PXO, SM3DMP, SA3BXA also helped out with putting up the tower when GTL-Tobbe came by with the crane on Saturday afternoon. It went rather smoothly and the tower was up quickly. It turned out great and hopefully when I get the worm drive attached to the bottom I can try to see it rotates well as well.

SM3PXO, SM3BDZ also gave me a couple of tubes. One that is a spare for an amp and one that will be used in the QBL amplifier and SM3DMP + SM3CER brought me a bunch of lottery tickets but unfortunately I did not get rich this time but it was a great gesture 🙂

SM3BDZ and SM3PXO were the brains and muscles behind a M/M station that was quite active in the late 90s and early 2000, SL3ZV/SK3JR (Also SL3A/SK3A). Unfortunately not enough people were involved in the station and when the rent got too high at the place they had to take down all equipment and leave for another QTH but with plans of a much smaller station, a more normal size club station.

The list of visiting hams this year is becoming very long, very fun!

Now I will try to put down a lot of effort in getting some antennas up in that inband tower too, so we might be able to use it during the contest season. But it is very unsure since winter might strike any time since it is almost October.

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WAE, SAC CW

Posted by sm2wmv on September 24, 2015 Comments Off

SM2LIY has been active in a few contests but I guess the only real serious effort was SAC CW last weekend. However propagation’s in all of these three events have been very poor, what a difference from what we have experienced before where most of the contests have been pretty good.

                   WAE DX Contest, CW

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

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  QTCs  Mults
-------------------------
   80:   35    20    92
   40:  210   285   180
   20:  453   903   174
   15:  224   226   142
   10:   23    12    32
-------------------------
Total:  945  1446   620  Total Score = 1,482,420

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Part time operation, we had forrest work this weekend to get rid of some trees
to make place for a new tower for inband operation.
Conditions was not the best, bad during day on 15 and especially bad on 10m on
saturday. Got beaten by 100 watters with small antennas on 15m calling the DX.
MUF even too low to call UA9 on 15m, had to beam to central EU and work them on
scatter. Same with NA during day, pointed to PY for QSOs. Many stations worked
at s1-s2 level.
Thats life under the oval at 64N when ms Aurora is visiting.

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) 
Micro KEYER 2R openASC N1MM Logger 

Thanks to all callers, and also to those giving out QTCs.

73 Per SM2LIY

                    WAE DX Contest, SSB

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

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 36

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  QTCs  Mults
-------------------------
   80:   39     1   100
   40:  137   188   177
   20:  382   623   174
   15:  166   363   140
   10:    1     0     2
-------------------------
Total:  725  1175   593  Total Score = 1,126,700

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Ms Aurora was visiting again.

7Z1SJ 5-bander, the only station heard all weekend on 10m.

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) 
Micro KEYER 2R openASC N1MM Logger 

Thanks to all callers, and also to those giving out QTCs.
CU in SAC CW next weekend!
 
73 Per SM2LIY

                    Scandinavian Activity Contest, CW

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

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:  287    44
   40:  609    59
   20:  747    58
   15:  155    42
   10:   30    19
-------------------
Total: 1828   222  Total Score = 913,086

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

Looks like SC24 is giving up, more mults worked on 80m than on 15m, despite of
big stacks on 15m. Got 2 USA in log on 15m during the night on a short Aurora
opening. 7 JA worked on 15m. K-index swinging between 5 and 7 from sunday 03z
to the end.
Had some problems with N1MM+ and dual CQ, audio moved to other rx before i had
typed the whole call, often missed last letter, so had to put in longer CQs
than needed  to fix that problem. Also was some focus problem writing the call,
often last 2 letters in the call appeared in wrong order.

Thanks to all callers and to all who tried to move to other bands, also thanks
to Mike serving some very needed coffee.

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  
10m: 6/6el + 6el @46m 
K3 + ACOM 2000A (Sponsored by Ojojoj Music AB) 
TS590 + 4-1000 micro KEYER 2R openASC N1MM Logger+

SJ2W Contest Station

Finally an update!

SAC SSB

Inband tower is up!

WAE, SAC CW

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