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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
CQWW WPX CW Claimed Scores
May 2017
VY2TT(K6LA) SOABHP 10,223,064 N6MU SOABLP 265,963
KI6RRN SOABLP 1,811,300 N6RV SOAABHP 265,088
W6TK SOAABHP 1,419,022 W6QU(W8QZA) SOABQRP 251,996
KM6Z SOABTSLP 662,055 W6KC SOAABHP 130,560
WA6KHK SOAABHP 419,520 NK6A SOAABHP 75,680
WN6K SOABLP 342,405 WA6URY SOABHP 42,090
WQ6X@NX6T(WQ6X N6CY N6KI DL3YM K4RB K6AM) M2HP 7,547,226
CQ WPX SSB Claimed Scores
March 2017
W6TK SOABHP 2,171,016 WQ6X@NX6T SOABAHP 233,266
WN6K SOABLP 696,180 W6QU(W8QZA) SOABQRP 115,977
NC6K SOABAHP 671,957 WA6URY SOABHP 102,589
KI6QDH SOABAHP 588,392 W6JBR SOABHP 44,619
N6RV SOABAHP 490,356 AI6DO SOABAHP 8,262
WA6KHK SOABAHP 353,976 W6KC SOABAHP 4,524
NC6B SOABAHP 327,360 N6HE SOABALP 2,880
N6MI@AF6O (N6MI K6VCR) M1HP 1,481,700
ARRL DX SSB Claimed Scores
March 2017
ZF2MJ(N6MJ) SOABHP 8,607,168 WA6KHK SOUHP 108,108
VY2TT(K6LA) SOABHP 1,664,040 N6ER SOUHP 66,555
W6TK SOUHP 610,836 W6QU(W8QZA) SOABQRP 58,512
WN6K SOABLP 360,360 NC6K SOSBHP 32,640
N6RV SOABLP 231,324 N6HE SOUHP 15,435
KI6QDH SOUHP 206,400 W6KC SOUHP 14,280
NC6B SOUHP 168,156 NK6A(MK6A) SOSBHP 9,975
K7ACZ SOABLP 151,929 W6JBR SOUHP 9,870
WA6URY SOABHP 110,136 AI6O SOABHP 8,424
NX6T (N6KI WQ6X N6NC N6ERD NN6X N6EEG W6ZAR W2PWS N6CY KK6NON) M2HP 1,090,908
NAQP RTTY Claimed Scores
February 2017
KM6Z SOLP 58,480 KI6VC SOLP 35,778
NC6B SOLP 49,446 W6KY SOLP 24,250
WQ6X@NX6T SOLP 46,800 KI6QDH SOLP 18,000
WN6K SOULP 45,310 K7ACZ SOLP 7,552
NC6K SOLP 39,240 W6JBR SOLP 3,375
SCCC #1 (WQ6X@NX6T NC6K W6KY KI6QDH KI6VC) 164,068
ARRL DX CW Claimed Scores
February 2017
VY2TT(K6LA) SOABHP 4,864,266 WA6KHK SOUHP 152,922
K6NA SOABHP 1,413,039 W6KC SOUHP 139,080
W6TK SOULP 881,166 W6KY SOABQRP 136,620
N6RV SOABLP 646,623 W6YA SOSBHP 120,285
NC6K SOUHP 504,210 NK6A SOUHP 97,464
WQ6X@NX6T SOUHP 449,541 KI6QDH SOUHP 60,600
N6QQ SOABHP 433,214 KM6Z SOSBLP 48,750
N6WS SOUHP 417,120 W6JBR SOUHP 43,200
AA6PW SOUHP 344,736 WA6URY SOABHP 41,652
N6MU SOABLP 233,415 WB6NBU SOABLP 32,625
NC6B SOUHP 175,200 AI6O SOABHP 25,872
W6QU(W8QZA) SOABQRP 156,894
