[TOEC] CQ WPX SJ2W

Mon May 29 15:41:50 EDT 2006

Oj, texten blev lite galen men det går att läsa här också -> 
http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/3830/2006-May/120912.html

//Micke

>From: "SM3WMV Mikael" <sm3wmv at hotmail.com>
>To: toec at contesting.com
>Subject: [TOEC] CQ WPX SJ2W
>Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 19:36:18 +0000
>
>Hojsan!
>
>Det blev en rolig och lyckad helg. Lite dåligt med aktivitet från SM vad 
>jag
>hörde, körde inte många av er :-( Allt slitande med att bygga elektronik
>payed off, har aldrig varit så bekvämt att köra radio någongång tidigare
>måste jag säga!
>
>Tusentals stack till Lars, SM2HWG och fru Cindy för servicen!
>
>Jag ids inte översätta det här så ni får stå ut med att läsa det på
>engelska!
>
>                    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
>------------
>   160:   12
>    80:  269
>    40:  524
>    20: 1375
>    15:  363
>    10:   11
>------------
>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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