Southern California Contest Club
North American QSO Party SSB: August 16-17 Worked All Europe DX SSB: August 9-10 North American QSO Party CW: August 2-3
North American QSO Party SSB: August 16-17 Worked All Europe DX SSB: August 9-10 North American QSO Party CW: August 2-3
Officers
President: Dick Norton, N6AA n6aa[at]arrl[dot]net
Manager for SCCC Sprint and NAQP Teams: Doug Brandon, N6RT n6rt[at]arrl[dot]net
Secretary, Treasurer, Membership: Bruce Horn, WA7BNM bhorn[at]hornucopia[dot]com
Webmaster: Jim Forsyth, AF6O webmaster@socalcontestclub.org
Manager for SCCC Sprint and NAQP Teams: Doug Brandon, N6RT n6rt[at]arrl[dot]net
Secretary, Treasurer, Membership: Bruce Horn, WA7BNM bhorn[at]hornucopia[dot]com
Webmaster: Jim Forsyth, AF6O webmaster@socalcontestclub.org
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To post a message to the reflector, send an e-mail to: sccc@contesting.com
An archive of reflector messages is available at: Reflector Archive
Reflector Administrator: Doug Brandon, N6RT n6rt[at]arrl[dot]net
To post a message to the reflector, send an e-mail to: sccc@contesting.com
An archive of reflector messages is available at: Reflector Archive
Reflector Administrator: Doug Brandon, N6RT n6rt[at]arrl[dot]net
Membership Stats
Total Membership: 218
Members within the club area 196
Members outside the club area 22
Stations added to the Roster since September 2013 29
Breakdown of Radios and Loggers Used at WRTC
July 2014
Radios Used at WRTC Loggers Used at WRTC
K3 75 63.6% Win-Test 40 67.8%
FTDX5000 8 6.8% N1MM 15 25.4%
TS590 7 5.9% Writelog 2 3.4%
IC7600 6 5.0% SkookumLogger 1 1.7%
FT1000MP 6 5.0% DXLog 1 1.7%
IC7800 4 3.4% TOTAL 59 100%
IC756-3 4 3.4%
FT1000D 2 1.7%
FT3000 2 1.7%
ORION II 2 1.7%
IC7700 1 0.8%
TS850 1 0.8%
TOTAL 118 100%
To Southern California Contest Club:Dear Fellow DX-ers and Contesters,
You are cordially invited to the Asia Pacific DX Convention 2014, which will take place November 14-16, 2014.
In addition to our usual presentations on recent DX-peditions, technical sessions, DX dinners and so forth, this convention offers something special. Japan is where most of the amateur radio equipment is developed, and you will have the opportunity to join a tour to the Icom factory, participate in a technical session led by the Icom HF radio design team, and more.
All of the programs at APDXC are conducted in English! For more details, please visit the APDXC website. For convention updates, check our website often, or send an email to subscribe to the APDXC newsletter: mail@apdxc.org.
We look forward to welcoming you at the APDXC in Osaka, Japan. - APDXC Committee / JA3USA
State QSO Parties
August 09-10 | Maryland-DC | August 23-24 | Hawaii | |
August 23-24 | Ohio | September 27-28 | Texas | |
October 04-05 | California | October 04-05 | New Jersey | |
October 11-12 | Arizona | October 12-13 | Pennsylvania | |
October 19-20 | New York | October 19-20 | Illinois |
The SJ2W Contest Station - Mikael Larsmark SM2WMV
July 2014
My name is Mikael Larsmark, SM2WMV and I'm 31 years old. I got my ham radio license when I was 15 and have always been having a big interest in building things.Many of you active contesters on the west coast has probably heard SJ2W on 20m time and time again while the band has been rather dead towards Europe. With a station located up in the north part of Europe we have the advantage of having west coast openings very late and at times during full nights on 20m, sometimes even 15 but rarely on 10m.
This is our chance of being competitive and with absence of aurora we can even sometimes be rather competitive in Europe. However, when that layer of auroral absorption is there, we have no chance at all regardless of how big stations we build. more
The SJ2W station was started to be built in the autumn of 2008 when I bought a QTH located 64.5 degrees north about 180km from where I work.
The location was selected such that ham radio friends that I wanted involved in the project would not have such a long distance to travel, actually I am the one having the second furthest travel distance to the station.
It is not a station being built with a big budget but mostly paid with a normal workers salary, so a lot of the equipment we need to build ourselves, such as antennas, antenna switching, control systems etc.
At the beginning I made plans of what I wanted the station to look like within a few years. Things have taken a bit longer than anticipated but at the same time the plans have also grown.
The idea has always been to make a competitive M/S with four operating positions or SO2R type of station with high flexibility.
Each band is supposed to have two or three antenna systems with one of the antenna systems totally independent of the other bands.
Lately we have also started to do what I call inband QSOs, where we do S&P on the RUN-band while the RUN-operator continues to work QSOs like normal. That way we
are able to work mults on the running band a lot faster and we can increase the number of QSOs as well. In the Russian DX for example we worked 2232 RUN QSOs,
657 S&P on the run band (inband) and 370 QSOs on the mult radio.The way we currently do this is that we have a vertical that is located about 450m away from the main antennas which the inband station use to listen, but whenever he decide to transmit the main antennas and amplifier are shifted from the RUN-station while the RUN-station gets to listen to the vertical. This is however not optimal and plans are to improve this system this summer by putting up a 30m high tower where the vertical is today, and put up a tribander + 2el for 40m which the inband station will use to both transmit and receive.
The whole station is controlled with a control system which I have designed and built myself that I call openASC. With this system we can control the whole station
with a single little box and in this way all operators can access all functions at the station without needing to yell to another operator to turn some antenna.
It makes operating the station very easy and safe.During this 5 year period we have broken a total of 1 relay in the switch system but this was because of a software bug. By using this system we are also able to remote control everything at the station and with two remotes currently setup using remoterig with a TS-480 and an Elecraft K3, the guys involved in the station can have fun from home as well.
The plan for this summer is to try get the already mentioned inband tower up and running but also to put up another OH8QD 60m high rotatable tower. This tower was built by OH8QD in 1983 and put up in Moskojärvi which is far up north in Sweden. We were given the tower for free as long as we took it down so the cost for this was the expense of the crane for a few hours. The tower was in excellent condition since it was galvanized and the intention is to have a 5x6 el stack for 15m in it and also a 3el for 80m.
It still surprises me today the scores we have been able to produce at SJ2W. The number of QSOs we have been producing in the M/S category is far over what I ever
thought was possible from up north and what had been done before. Our highs have been close to 7800 QSOs in CQWW SSB and 6000 QSOs in CQWW CW and we've been setting
a lot of national and Scandinavian records that we are very proud of.The whole station project is very well documented on our website www.sj2w.se. I update the website several times a week during the more busy periods so that people are able to follow what happens and hopefully get inspired to do projects themselves, so be sure to check the website out! I would like to encourage more station builders to try sharing their work for others to get inspired. It just takes me a few minutes to update the website.
More pictures: 1 2 3 4 5 6 73 de Mike, SM2WMV (SJ2W) close
IARU HF Championship
July 2014
K6LA SOHPMIX 1,305,472 NK6A SOHPMIX 135,172
K6NR SOHPCW 590,178 KI6QDH SOLPMIX 49,819
N6MI SOHPMIX 397,846 W6TK SOLPCW 47,679
N6QQ SOHPMIX 181,632
NX6T (N6KI, KL7SB, WB6NBU, NN6X, NA6L) MSHP 997,084
WA6URY MSHP 111,696
ARRL June VHF Contest Claimed Scores
June 2014
N6MU@N6NB SOHP 85,410 WN6K SO3BLP 8,568
N6VI SOHP 36,520 N6HC SO3BQRP 4,832
N6GP/R LPLTD 32,964 WA6URY SOHP 2,304
W6PH SOHP 17,072 NE6I SOLP 646
NI6E (NI6E, K6EPP, AF6RT, KI6VVN, KK6KPW) MOHPLIM 17,366
Members Well Placed in 7QP Results
June 2014
WN6K Second Place SOHPMIXED
AF6O First Place SOHPCW
W6AFA First Place SOHPPH
N6MU First Place SOLPCW
NX6T Second Place MSHP
W6TK Third Place MSLP
CQ World Wide WPX CW Claimed Scores
May 2014
VY2TT(K6LA) SOABHP 12,378,037 WA6URY SOABHP 183,201 AF6O SOABHP 2,025,058 W6QU(W8QZA) SOABQRP 134,196 W6TK SOABHP 2,019,020 ZM3T(W3SE) SOASBLP 125,160 WN6K SOABLP 924,8464 NO6T(N6NC) SOASBHP 101,982 N6MU SOABLP 304,300 WQ6X@NX6T M2HP (K4RB KB7V NØDY N6CY N6EEG N6KI NN6X WA2OOB WB6NBU WQ6X) 9,619,592 N6MI MSHP (N6MI NB6E) 2,227,722
N6MI CONTEST VAN IN MONTEREY
