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Have you been on 80 meter CW lately?

Listen in to this QSO between SM3EVR Tord (member of SK3W) and OH6CT Olli (member of OH2U). Tord with the latest technology, K3 by Elecraft and Olli with his HW100 by Heathkit and Straight Key.

Click on the player below to listen, the file is 14MB, takes some time to load.


7034.8 SK3W 25-Nov-2007 1438Z
7034.6 SK3W 25-Nov-2007 1413Z
7034.8 SK3W 25-Nov-2007 1347Z
7033.1 SK3W 25-Nov-2007 1210Z Rig the new K3
7033.1 SK3W 25-Nov-2007 1206Z
7033.0 SK3W 25-Nov-2007 1119Z
7041.9 SK3W 25-Nov-2007 1032Z ww
7036.4 SK3W 24-Nov-2007 2114Z
7036.1 SK3W 24-Nov-2007 1935Z
7031.4 SK3W 24-Nov-2007 1401Z
7031.4 SK3W 24-Nov-2007 1317Z
7031.5 SK3W 24-Nov-2007 1237Z
7035.6 SK3W 24-Nov-2007 0813Z
7035.6 SK3W 24-Nov-2007 0812Z
7035.6 SK3W 24-Nov-2007 0651Z
7031.1 SK3W 24-Nov-2007 0125Z


Can you identify the SK3W operators? Listen in on our 18 QSO’s with CN2R.

http://cn2r.net/cn2r/cn2log_interface/QSOs/Logbook.asp

Operated by SM5AJV. For more information:

http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/toec/2007-September/003619.html

http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/3830/2007-September/141585.html

 Band     QSOs     Pts  Cty
   3,5     244     507   41
     7     394     858   56
    14     701    1646   75
    21     211     438   42
    28      96     192   25
 Total    1646    3641  239

Score: 870 199

  Hour  Total  3_5    7    14    21    28   Acc.
  -----------------------------------------------
  12    141                135   6          142
  13    132                126   6          273
  14    86                 54    22    10   359
  15    87                 81    6          446
  16    113           53   60               559
  17    58     12     35   11               617
  18    98     26     52   20               715
  19    110    29     80   1                825
  20    66     13     47   6                891
  21    66     39     26   1                957
  22    59     57     2                     1016
  23    35     23     10   2                1051
  0     26     9      9    8                1077
  1     10     8      2                     1087
  2     11     6      4    1                1098
  3     30     8      21   1                1128
  4     27     3      16   8                1155
  5     45     11     18   16               1200
  6     36            16   4     13    3    1236
  7     61                       59    2    1297
  8     69                 10    55    4    1366
  9     115                94    9     12   1481
  10    66            1          26    39   1547
  11    99            2    62    9     26   1646
  ------------------------------------------------
  All   1646   244    394  701   211   96

Once again Ingo SE5E/SM5AJV is operating SK3W as Single op All Band. This time on Phone. Propagation not as good as last weekend, but not bad. Other visitor so far this weekend: SM0GNU, SM3XIK and SM3SGP. QRZ?

• Latest spots
• Video from the night

Can you hear him on the bands? Please leave comments on our signal here:

http://sk3w.se/2007/09/23/se5e-operating-soab-in-sac-ssb/

The contest season is getting closer, and the end of September will be a full three weekends in a row contest party.

1. Scandinavia Activity Contest CW 15-16 Spetember
2. Scandinavia Activity Contest SSB 22-23 September
3. CQ World-Wide Contest RTTY 29-30 September

The lastest ICOM Radio News video is showing K3LR Multi/Multi station in action. At SK3W we will be active. Hopefully as multi op, but still depends on how many interested operators we can gather.

After a minor tower failure at SM5INC, (see previous post on this Blog), we had to do some preventive work to make sure we know the status of our rotating towers. The problem at INC was that the center pin at the bottom of the tower broke, and in some way the tower fell off its base. The tower did not fall down, and was secure in its guy wires. The bottom bearing is made of two plates, the bottom one only laying on the base and the upper welded to the tower. To make sure the bottom part of the bearing is not rotating, some small pins are needed. This was missing on our 42m tower.

On this Video you will see what I mean.

This video show the antennas and towers from the Ericsson tower. The video shows the four square for 80m, then moves to the left and show the 42m tower following the 60m tower. It later show the antennas for internet connection. This is the first test using YouTube… More videos to come.

This photo was taken ten years ago, during the days of the Cold war between Sweden and Finland. You can see the OH2HE team (now OH2U), laughing out loud when discussing the SM-Scores and PalleRalle pannkaka contest team in Sweden, SK3GW (now SK3W).

The call-signs are getting shorter and the operators are getting older (bigger and louder?), and there are now peace between the two countries

Here is a small clip from the real Pannkaka show…

Operated by SM3XIK and SM3SGP. We used the stack only, still not possible to switch in the 15 el yagi. The Gi7b amp worked fine all night, with 500watt on the remote bird watt meter. Some Aurora, but not much activity. As last moth, great pile-up to the south in the beginning of the contest. In the end of the contest, propagation to south (OZ/SM7) died.

Nice to work and hear a couple of OZ on CW. They still need some practice thou… (Maybe MorseRunner ) Watch W0MM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTvXxzBC7EY

Why was the result so good last month? No, idea. Same power and antennas. Looks like the result for July was pretty good as well… Has our competition lost their motivation?

Result, log and statistics HERE!