2010- And the game is still on!
Working a lot with Mikkel's special Callsign OZ2SPACE.
A lot of fun. A lot of Pile-up training for all of us. AND! It is for a good and great thing!
This will be going on for at least January, February and a bit into March 2010.
All QSL via OZ7AKT - Look on QRZ.com!! http://www.qrz.com/db/oz2space
Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czxmqsnUaYM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUb7sQ_VlkY
Another clip from KA4UDX http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE31bRqTzuc
TNX Alan!
This weekend in May (15-05-2010 & 16-05-2010) we activated OZ2SPACE on CW, primarily on 17 meters.
With a lot of great fun. Over 200 QSO's with JA-OP's. Many thanks to JA-operators.
You have a great Pile-up disciplin. Many should learn from you!
THANK YOU! We will remember this in the next activations to come soon.
Take a look and search on Youtube! Someone may put up some nice clips on OZ2SPACE activation.
Contest Activities, 2010:
January
2 meter NAC - Strange condx's this evening! Germans where as loud as Swedish......
OP's OZ2TG and OZ1IKY - Score: 43.826 points, 77 QSO's 38 squares. ODX JO21 731 KM
February
WPX RTTY - Multi Single, OP's OZ7AM, OZ1IKY and OZ0MJ
Funny - and fun - way of contesting. This was our first time in a RTTY Contest!
ARRL DX CW - Multi Single, OP's OZ7AM, OZ1IKY and a little help from OZ1ETA - thanks Niels!
We made an Worked All States - but missed 3 Canadian territories.
Score: 900.963 points and 1.589 QSO's
.... Now let's get the QSL-cards and apply for the WAS.
March
2 meter NAC - OP's OZ1IKY and OZ2ELA. Score 41.775 points, 81 QSO's 37 sqaures ODX JN49 676 KM
We tried out Mikkel's (OZ7AKT) new PA! A very nice Discovery AMP for 2 meters!
OZ 80 Meters Activity test, Club section
CW 30 QSO's total score 1386, SSB 68 QSO's total scores 3861. Operators OZ0MJ & OZ1IKY same time as the ARRL Int. DX!!
ARRL Inter. DX Contest, SSB - Operators OZ0MJ, YT2T, OZ7AM & OZ1IKY
Special thanks to Marko, YT2T our guest operator! Always nice to get some input and inspiration from the out side!
We actually again made an Worked All States! And this time even made all the Canadian Territories! Big Yeahharh!
Score: 322.926! and 1.006 QSO's
CQ WW WPX Contest SSB
Operators OZ0MJ, OZ5D, OZ1ETA, OZ2KL, OZ7AM & OZ1IKY - Some pictures from the Operations
Great fun - even though 'Mister Murphy' struk us hard from the begining;
40 meter slooping dipol array didnt come up, 15 meter yagi didnt come up,
Rained a lot most of Saturday, so not repairs possible - mast climbing almost impossible (thanks Andre OZ5D for doing it anyway!)
Thanks BO, OZ2BO for helping with antennas in the middle of all the rain!
40 meter scores - even with less QSO's won over 20 meter!! Something to think about!
Total Score: 4.553.010, Total QSO's: 2335.
BUT! Enough for a first place in OZ!
APRIL
OZ80 Meters Activity test, Club section
CW: 31 qso's, total points 1386 - Phone; 93 qso's and a total of 5890 points
We made an excellent position again!
2 meter NAC, OP's OZ2TG, OZ2ELA & OZ1IKY
Score 58168 104 QSO's 49 squares. ODX OH1ND, HP00 on Aurora!
MAY
OZ80 Meters Activity test, Club section
CW: 29 qso's, total points1323 - Phone; 76 qso's and a total of 5056 points
We made number 1 in both CW and Phone in the Club sections again
2 meter NAC, OP's OZ2TG & OZ1IKY
Score 47137, 85 QSO's 39 squares. ODX DK1FG JN59OP 674 KM!
JUNE
2 meter NAC OP's OZ2TG & OZ1IKY
Score 51 QSO's 29 squares ODX RX3QFM in KO91OO, 1803 KM!!
Some nice ES opening to Russia. But our antenna has a fault somewhere; SWR above 1:3 ....
OZ80 meters Activity test, Club section. OZ0MJ & OZ1IKY
CW 37 QSO's total 1925 points - Phone 80 QSO's and a total of 5508 points.
Actually we did not only make No.1 in the Club section, but also for the whole test!
JULY - Has been a nice summer, and we had a nice VHF/UHF Fieldday
RSGB IOTA Contest
Some of us where active from JW5E, Svalbard, in this contest.
JW/OZ1AA ( OY3AA), JW/OZ7AM & JW/OZ1IKY
AUGUST
2 meter NAC is still out of question due to antenna malfunctions
OZ80 meters activity contest, Club Section OZ0MJ & OZ1IKY
Again - we made FIRST PLACE in the club section.
But OZ5EDR is gaining on us. We will fight back! We intend to win this years Club Section!
OCTOBER
OZ80 meters activity contest, Club Section
OZ7SKV and OZ5EDR gave us a hard time this tiime.
CW & Phone only 2'nd place this time. We will be back - don't worry - next month is RE-macth!
Scandinaviaqn Activity Contest SSB - As Multi Single (MS)
Oh boy! Everything that could go wrong, went wrong! PA burnout, 3 times. 80 meter antenna broken,
nothing on 10 meters and 15 meters was not much better. Our IC 756 PRO III made some orckward behaviours too.
559 QSO's and a total score of 147.636 - Not what we had expected.
Operators; OZ7AM and OZ1IKY
CQ WW SSB - As Multi Single (MS) with a multiplier station!
This was a lot better then SAC SSB, because we had fixed a lot of the previous problems!
Even put up a dipole for 160 meters, wich played pretty well if one may say!
3.700 QSO's and 4.200.000 in total score.
We had planned to break the old Danish record from 1997 on MS - but didnt succed.
10 meter never really got open to our part of the world.
But we managed to work more then a full DXCC on both 40, 20 and 15 meters.
Even on 80 meters we got close to a DXCC.
Operators : OZ7AM, YT2T, OZ0MJ and OZ1IKY
Moral-helpers; OZ7AKT, OZ7IB and OZ4P/5P5N
Some pictures from our setup (Click here!)
NOVEMBER
CQ WW CW - Since there are only 2 operators doing Contest CW
we have decided to go to OZ5E, together with a "monster-operator-team"
(OZ7AM, OZ1ETA, YT2T, OZ2BRN, OZ2KL and OZ1IKY )
We broke the German teams old Danish record in Denmark!!
... and the old Danish Multi-Multi Rekord!!
Band QSOs Zones Countries
160: 723 13 63
80: 1700 23 93
40: 1038 32 117
20: 1616 39 127
15: 1160 34 129
10: 44 13 27
Total: 6281 154 556 Total Score = 8.304.160
DECEMBER
Will be Christmas time - not much contesting activity
The ARRL 160 meters is conflicting with the club's annual Christmas Party