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Contest stories, from various contests.
As you may notice, I do not usually contest on HF for high scores or winning. I contest because I think it's very fun, many are active, and you get a chance to work some new countries/squares and whatever is in the air.
2006, March
Russian DX contest. Tried to break the Swedish SOAB-SSB-LP record. Broke it with quite some mariginal, let's hope it survives thru the logchecking. Condx pretty descent on day one, but aurora killed it during the second day, wich made running impossible with 100w and wires on most bands.
2006, February
CQ160 SSB Low-Power this year too. Went up to the club on saturday evening and worked about 8h. Beat last years score, but still not impressive at all.
2006, January
UBA DX from SK6AW. Worked as SM6U, about 15h of activity. IC-7000 & TS-850SAT. Low power this year. 224q & 76.840 points (at least I did beat last years HP/10h score, wich was the goal). About the same antenna setup as last year. I want better condx now!
2005, October
CQWW SSB, from SK5AA, Multi-Single.
Score about 1890 QSO's and 1.4 Millions.
On the picture (closest station): Martin & SM5SIC/Göran. The other station: Micke & SM0DRD/Göran.
Rest of the crew (not on the picture): Jan-Peder, SM5YZB/Petri & SM6YOU (As usual, I held the camera).
2005, July
RSGB IOTA contest as 8S4S, SOAB-LP-SSB-12H. Good activity. The higher bands, 15/10m was quite open for a change. 317q / 148k.
2005, June
King Of Spain contest. Not much activity. Enjoyed the extras and worked some DX in between contest calls ;-)
2005, March
CQ WW WPX SSB 2005. SOAB LP. Found out that even tho I have a 2.1 kHz Inrad x-tal filter in my FT-847, it sucks bigtime on big signals. No chance to find a free spot to run on on 40/20m. Internal DSP/IF shift almost useless to get rid of the splatter. What's wrong with these half-expensive rigs? The TS-120S outperformed my FT-847 bigtime, this one goes out for sale, the HF part is totally unusable. Oh well, despite the bad rig, and the bad antennas on 40/20 at SK6AW, I managed to get over 600 qso's (450.064p) wich is a personal record in a contest this far, combined with lots of nice DX on 15m, it was really fun in the end anyway.
View on the picture is from SK6AW's QTH, sunday morning sunset around 07z.
P.S. Yes, I know I need a haircut! D.S.
2005, March
Russian DX SOAB LP. Tried out my new antenna park and a "new" rig (TS-120S), as 8S4S. UFB score for wire-antennas, 12h op-time and a old rig with no filters (bad ears..), score about 321q / 335k.
2005, February
03.36z (04.36 SNT) CQ 160 from SK6AW. Worked only 5-6 hours. 100w into Inv-L antenna. Ended up at around 90q / 10.000 points. Zzzzz...
2005, February
24 hours left to the 2:nd NAC 144MHz 2005. Looks a bit messy, but everything was up and running on time :-) Got about 21.000 points with a FT-847 50w into a ECO 9el beam, using an ICOM AG-25 preamp. The rotor controller has a 110v/220v trafo, wich unfortuneatly made lots of sporadic QRM everywhere. There shouldn't be any problems getting a better score.
2005, January
UBA DX from SK6AW. Worked as SM6U, 5h on saturday and 5h on sunday. ~200q & 60.000 points. IC-703 & IC-706, PA ~ 300w. 5el15m, 5el10m, GP 20/15/10 & Dipoles on 40m/80m. No activity/conds on 10m :-(
2004, December
NAC 144mhz from/as SK6AG. Me and SM6YVF/Fredrik worked the NAC. IC-910H 100w to 4x9el. Score about 10.000, not very satisfying, but the QTH doesn't allow a very high score.
2004, November
CQWW CW. I do not know very much CW. Cheated with CwGet. Got around 100q in 6 hours. 75% USA qsos. FT-847 barefoot and a FD-4 / big discone.
2004, October
Me and SM5YZB/Petri decided to go portable (again!) in the CQWW SSB, running from his folks summer house outside Enköping, in JO89. First big test for both of us. Took it pretty easy, used an FT-847 + FT-897 with two PA's abt 600w + 400w. Antennas was one 3 el yagi (20-15-10), dipole at 40m, and a Bugcatcher. Total time on the air was about 24h, rest of the time spent on antenna fixing, etc. Was very fun but no really exciting score. ~600q and 250.000 points. We used my contestcall, SM6U.
Starring on this picture: A tired SM5YZB/Petri :)
2004, September
REG1 VHF Contest. Belcom LS-202e handheld radio, 25W PA And a HB9CV with 2x 2mtr pipes. The QTH is very near my appartement in JO57XR.
Powered by 12v 10Ah led-acc. Was fully enough for 25w SSB and an hour FM traffic after the test. SM6YVB/Björn & SM6XNK/Jakob dropped in for a visit during the test.
Was active the last two and a half hours of the test, resulted in 10 qso's. Didn't have enough power to reach the distant stations, but it was a very nice day, so just getting out was worth it!
Heard but not worked: PA6C, PI4Z & TM2K, some SM7 stations, etc.
2004, July
Me and SM5YZB/Petri decided to go portable in the NAC 144mhz. FT-847 50w output from a hilltop, JP80el, in SM4. Located about 275 masl. Score abt 22.000 points, pretty good.
The woods seen on the picture is not at thick as it looks. Only a few trees, so our signals got thru very fine. Best QRB was around 600km. We had some bad luck, there is a commercial antenna-park up there, and with our placement of the antenna, we had very much QRM in that direction, wich was SW, where all the nice OZ-DX's are, so we didn't hear them :(
There was lots of rain this day, but we still choosed to go ahead. Raining stopped about 30 mins prior to the test, but, we got the mosquitos instead.
To the left is SM5YZB/Petri.
2004, April
Portable in the NAC 144Mhz. About 30kg carried on foot. Got around 35q in 3 hours, before I gave up due to the cold weather. Also there was some heavy rain while carrying everything up.
Read full story (in swedish)
2004, April
SP DX SSB From a friends QTH. My first HF contest. Worked 2-3 hours, resulting in 69q. TS-450s & SB-220, 1kW to a multiband vertical.
P.S. Paper loggin rocks .. :) D.S.
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