CQWW WPX Contest, CW
Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SM3WMV
Station: SM2HWG
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Sika
Operating Time (hrs): 36
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 12
80: 269
40: 524
20: 1375
15: 363
10: 11
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Total: 2554 Prefixes = 835 Total Score = 4,473,095
Club: Worldwide Young Contesters
Comments:
First off, thanks to SM2HWG for letting me use his station and his wife Cindy
for keeping me with food, ice cream, coffee etc during the contest. There
should maybe be a category for this aswell? SOAB assisted but not cluster
assisted.
I have been building electronics for this big station during most of the spring
and now it felt like it has really payed off. I was invited to do this contest
from SM2HWG in the beginning of April and accepted the invitation. When I the
week before the contest got a cold I was a bit worried and was lying in bed
most of the days prior to the contest. On Thursday though I felt kinda good and
the cold was totally gone on Friday.
When I arrived at the station I had a few things to do, first thing was the
install the driver unit (for antenna switches) on the band decoder for the 2nd
radio. When that was done I fixed some with the amps and ended up going to bed
at around 20:00z and actually fell asleep!
I had a lot of technical problems during the contest and most of them involved
the amps. I ended up running the last 8 hours on the 2nd radio since the amp on
radio #1 gave up. I also had problems with the amp on 15/10m so I used the 2nd
radio on those bands aswell. A bit confusing when you're used to have the left
radio as "mult radio" and then start to run on it.
Before the contest I had set a few goals.
X - Beat SM SOAB HP record
X - Over 2500 qsos
X - Over 800 mults
X - Stay "close" to 7S2E M/S effort (they are 1km away)
X - Stay "close" to fellow WWYCers IZ3EYZ (IR4X) and DJ1YFK (@DJ6ZM)
I knew I was going to lose on 40M and maybe 15m towards these two lads. This
far north I have no chance on 40M since the band closes very early towards US.
We never have total darkness here but greyline for some time. This greyline
together with darkness/greyline in the US exist for approx 1.5 hour I belive,
that gives me a huge handicap compared to guys further south who can run 6
ptsers like crazy. When I saw DJ1YFK result this confirmed my thoughts, he
averaged a lot more on 40 and also almost twice as many qsos. I was hoping to
make up for this on 20m towards US but that didn't work. The conditions where
there for sure but activity seemed very low from both US and Japan.
7S2E (SM2DMUs station) is about 1km away from SM2HWG and in the direction south
for them. This messed things up a bit when I was beaming JA and they were
beaming south. So for all of you calling on 40 and 80m and I was acting as a
LID it was probably because I was switching between a horisontal and vertical
antenna depending on the interference :-) On 40 I txed most of the time on the
yagi and when EU called listened on a FD-4, imagine that antenna came in use!
Operatorwise I did the contest quite okay I belive. I was not used to the
FT1000Ds and it took a while before I figured everything out, so the SO2R
suffered during the first part of Saturday but picked up later. Off times could
be discussed but the lack of experience at this time of the year was the reason
for that. I haven't worked a WPX CW since 1999 because of exams and that time I
was a rookie and didn't know much of propagations at all. That time 1.7 meg so I
think I have improved a bit :-)
How about the goals?
X - Beat SM SOAB HP record
X - Over 2500 qsos
X - Over 800 mults
X - Stay "close" to 7S2E M/S effort (they are 1km away)
X - Stay "close" to fellow WWYCers Matt IZ3EYZ (IR4X) and Fabian DJ1YFK
(@DJ6ZM)
I Managed to stay quite close to DJ1YFK and IR4X. They both beat me quite a lot
in points but that was expected. I was between them both in mults and qsos so
overall I feel I have succeded with that goal. I managed to stay not too far
behind 7S2E team. I sure did break the other goals so overall it was a
successfull weekend. I expect to get this record crushed though during the next
solar peak, hopefully it will be me doing it!
Station description:
160M: 35m high vertical
80M: 4 Square + FD-4
40M: 4el mono (fullsize) @53m + FD-4
20M: 6/6el + 4el mono + FD-4
15M: 6/6el + 4el mono + FD-4
10M: 6/6/6el + 4el mono + FD-4
Rigs: 2xFT1000D
More info -> http://sm2hwg.sm3wmv.com
Again big thanks to SM2HWG with wife and everybody who called me! Hopefully
I'll be doing a lot more contests from Lars superb station!
//Mike (SM3WMV // SJ3A // SM3W)
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