[WWYC] CQWW SSB @SJ2W

[Mikael Larsmark]

It was fun to hear a lot of "Hi Mike" during the contest and a few times 
these "Hi Mike" were said to SM2LIY as well :)

Here is the 3830 post. Thanks for all qsos with WWYC lids.

                     CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SM2LIY SM2WMV
Station: SJ2W

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 47

Summary:
   Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
    160:  508    13       64
     80:  308    22       89
     40:  160    23       89
     20: 1633    38      139
     15:   97    23       75
     10:   35     8       32
------------------------------
Total: 2741   127      488  Total Score = 3,219,525

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

We did not plan a serious effort but we ended up working the contest for
47 hours anyway. Plans were to do some outside work during the weekend
to get ready for CQWW CW but snow arrived which made the plans change.

The contest was operated in a very limited way. No rotator yet on the
tower, could only rotate the tower between JA and USA over the north but
luckily the temporary 3el yagi for 20m was pointing in the opposite
direction, so whenever we needed to work something south we used the 3el
yagi instead of the top yagi.
This was because the tram line was still in the tower and I don't want
to climb the tower in snowy/icy conditions.

Propagations were great, amazing to work 75 dxcc + 23 zones on 15m using
the 40m vertical and 10m stack, since no antenna for the band is
currently up. However the lowbands really suffered from the solar
activity, we didn't work any zone 4 or zone 5 on 160m for example. No VE
worked on 40m and missing zone 4 as well. 20m was of course the money
band. We used the 3el yagi @19m and the top antenna in the future 20m
stack which is currently located at 55m (6el yagi).

Most exciting thing in the contest? Having K7RL call in on 160m when the
band was pretty much dead outside Europe, how? Aurora opening? Who
knows...I first thought that maybe SG3P (SK3W) was kidding with me but
the "Thanks for 160m" comment from K7RL on 20m the day after confirmed
the QSO.

The multiplier radio consisted of an IC7400 with an old 2x572b amp
putting out everything between 200-400W depending on its mood. But this
old amp managed to work K7ZV LP on 80m during the afternoon   :-)

Now we will see how much more is done for CQWW CW, if we do M/S or some
SB efforts.

Mike (SM2WMV) and Per (SM2LIY)
More info, visit -> http://www.sj2w.se