[WWYC] CQWW CW SJ2W M/S HP

[Mikael Larsmark]

FAIL, here it comes...

                     CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: SJ2W
Operator(s): SE2T SM2LIY SM2WMV SM3JLA
Station: SJ2W

Class: M/S HP
QTH: Da Traesk
Operating Time (hrs): 47.5

Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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   160:  225    20       77
    80:  527    34      134
    40: 1852    40      155
    20: 1842    40      146
    15:  558    36      136
    10:   38     8       38
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Total: 5042   178      686  Total Score = 9,370,080

Club: Worldwide Young Contesters

Comments:

WOW! This was really an awesome experience! We had hoped for 7 meg but 
we were a bit skeptic considering the low solar flux, some kind of wet 
fantasy would be to reach the current SM M/S record, which is at 8.6 meg 
by SK3W back in 2000. We did reach it, however we doubt that we have 
enough marginal to pass it during log check.

The low bands were amazing during the first night, and during daytime we 
had great openings to JA/US on 40m, which produces great 3 pts runs. On 
Saturday night we got aurora and K-index 4, but as expected this gave us 
great US runs on 15/20m which was a blast. However we were really afraid 
of what to expect of how the bands would be in the rest of the contest. 
Luckily the bands didn't suffer that extremely much, even though the 
following night (Sunday morning) was quite a struggle.

We missed 30 minutes on Sunday morning due to a relay which failed, and 
SM2WMV was woken up from his beauty sleep (much needed) to walk outside 
in -20C to bypass the relay box.

9L5VT was an awesome 6-band qso. Also working ZL8X during aurora 
conditions on 15m during the night, and working them long path on 
Saturday morning on 80m.

Things at the QTH are yet not optimal, its actually far from. We haven't 
got enough flexibility antenna wise (especially 40/20m). We had one 
radio always on 80m, and two radios which were run/mult depending on 
situation, but only 160m on one radio which made the result suffer 
compared to last year.

10m sucked, almost no openings at all except some skew path openings via 
scatter on Sunday.

Next one is probably CQ 160 CW, cu! Check the webpage for more 
information about the station and everything that goes on (updated 
frequently).

http://www.sj2w.se