tirsdag 30. november 2021

CQ WW CW 2021

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW - 2021

Call: LA5LJA
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA5LJA

Class: SO(A)AB LP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 14:20

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:   33     4       18
   80:   84    11       39
   40:  138    13       48
   20:  193    18       57
   15:  136    17       41
   10:   16     9       11
------------------------------
Total:  600    72      214  Total Score = 286,286

Club: Contest Club Norway

Comments:

Plan was to do 24 hour classic.
Due to local qrn on low bands 40-80-160
I cant find out where this come from.
So I was only qrv 5 hours on saturday.
To my big suprise sunday morning at 0600gmt.
The noise was gone,I get 90 min's on 80/160
and I get some Nice ones in log on low band,
Then the qrn started again,but this was giving
me some 'fuel' so it ended up with 9 more hour sunday.
Conds must have been good on low band,10 mtr was not
playing,was much better under cq ww ssb last month.
****
The op at TI7W (N6MJ) is from another world....
He beat the shit out of most M/M..M/2..M/S... Groups...
11555 q's that's 240 q's for 48 hours...
I can do 200 q's a hour,in a Lucky hour ,but this is madnes.
My hat of for you Sir...
****
Another great score must be PZ5CO
3430 qso's With 5 watt QRP...amazing...
worked him on 15 mtr on my vertical.
****
Had some fun,CW IS A LIVE...
but my local qrn ,have killed my hobby...

Take care
Seasons Greetings
CW IS KING

tirsdag 2. november 2021

CQ WW SSB 2021

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB - 2021

Call: LA5LJA
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA5LJA

Class: SO(A)AB LP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 16:00

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:   10     3        7
   80:   10     4        9
   40:   94    11       44
   20:   90    15       49
   15:  120    25       56
   10:   76    17       29
------------------------------
Total:  400    75      194  Total Score = 188,569

Club: Contest Club Norway

Comments:

Great to make some qso's again on 10 mtr.
Limited operation again,local noise on low
bands are high, hope to find out of it before
cqww cw, lets hope we will have the same conds
on the cw part,that would be Nice.

lørdag 2. oktober 2021

CQ WW RTTY 2021

  CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY - 2021

Call: LA5LJA
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA5LJA

Class: SOAB LP
Class Overlay: Classic
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 24:00

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  State/Prov  DX   Zones
------------------------------------
   80:  123       7       40     8
   40:  227      10       45    12
   20:  330      27       63    21
   15:  128      14       35    22
   10:    1       0        1     1
------------------------------------
Total:  809      58      184    64  Total Score = 558,450

Club: CONTEST CLUB NORWAY

Comments:

Goal was 720 qso's ..that's 30 qso's a hour for 24 hour.
this you can do with S&P easy and if you can get som run's,
qso rate will go up...great to hear 15 mtr up again.....
Have a big qrn/noise problem on low bands,but this weekend
it was a little bit better...one of my nabo'rs was away...
and the noise Level was lower...I think he have put up some
led's with a dimmer on, some ebay junk from China I think..
All in all a Nice contest weekend,not tired at all, 24 hours
goes quick,I checked 10 mtr many times during the contest, made
one qso CR3DX ,and thats was the only one I heard also...
Claimed score is a new 24 hour Low Power record for Norway....
Next one will be cq ww ssb , lets hope 10 mtr open also ..CU..
XXXX


My qso map, thanks to DL4MFM.
I missed a lot of easy mults in this contest.
Missed a lot of states on 40 mtr i think.
Wrong band/time choice for me.
Top 3 dxcc worked.
90 USA's, 76 Italians, 64 Germans in log
In total 76 Dxcc countries worked.
Only 2 Norwegians worked on 20 and 80 mtr band.


søndag 19. september 2021

Scandinavian Activity Contest, CW - 2021

Call: LA5LJA
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA5LJA

Class: SOAB LP
Class Overlay: TB-Wires
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 06:46

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:    0     0
   40:  396    35
   20:  205    29
   15:   10     8
   10:    0     0
-------------------
Total:  611    72  Total Score = 93,240

Club: Contest Club Norway

Comments:

Some hours,limited contest time for me.
Due to local qrn,my new neighbours charging
system for his el-car drive me crazy....
S9+30 on 160,s9+10 on 80,s7 on 40 , s5 on 20+15
So no qso's on 80 mtr at all, but have some Nice runs
on 40 and 20 mtr,best clock hour 119 q's on 40.
Suprised when WH7T called in on 40 mtr ,Nice dx in log.
Longest Call worked was EA8/OG6OBBM thats a brain twister
on cw mode. Thanks to all that called me ,thanks for all
of you that take part year after year, many familiar Calls.
Hope the Norwegian RBN Committee find my RBN spot low enough
so i dont tramp any one on their EGO...please let me know
if you have problem...the solution is near...

XXXXXX

My noise level on 160..
on 80 mtr only s 9+10...

mandag 31. mai 2021

CQ WPX CW 2021

CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2021

Call: LN7TTT
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LN7TTT

Class: SOAB LP
Class Overlay: Classic
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 20:36

Summary:
Band  QSOs
------------
  160:   64
   80:  130
   40:  306
   20:  403
   15:  100
   10:   41
------------
Total: 1044  Prefixes = 537  Total Score = 977,877

Club: LA-DX-GROUP

Comments:

Started late saturday morning 1000 local time (0800 Gmt)
To much work the last week, one guy get covid-19 at work.
Company in quarantine but some of us was not in touch/near
the Corona guy,so some of us get a big work load..
Thanks good I was not near the guy...but looong work days....
So tired...New rules this year: classic 24 hour,that was ok for me.
Goal was set for 1000 qso's...did it...hope the log check will
be ok for me...first day ,my ears was not With me....
Contest was ok,had hoped for better 10 and 15 mtr but ok.
Last night, to my big suprise I could work North America on 20 mtr.
About 50 qso's...very happy.. also made 1 qso to America on 15 mtr.
Only one you say....Yes, but I was happy, only vertical on 15/20 mtr
to North America, made 500 Q's on 10-15-20 on my GP7DX vertical.
Contest was fun,lots of stations to work..250 q's in RUN and rest in S/P.
C U in the NeXT one...CW IS KING....

                                                         LAST YEAR 2020 AWARD.



søndag 9. mai 2021

CQ-M CONTEST 2021

 CQ-M International DX Contest - 2021

Call: LA5LJA
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA5LJA

Class: SOABCW LP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 04:55

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Mults
---------------------------
  160:                   
   80:                   
   40:  100            27
   20:  123            30
   15:   55            22
   10:   22            14
---------------------------
Total:  300     0      93  Total Score = 56,637

Club: Contest Club Norway

Comments:

Qrv Sunday morning only, due to work Saturday.
Lots of stations to work,goal 300 qso's.
Reached after 4 hour 55 min,then qrt.
Nice to make some q's on 10 mtr,lets
hope 10 and 15 mtr open up for the up-coming
CQ wPx cw contest, sooo lets go Party...

søndag 2. mai 2021

ARI CONTEST 2021

ARI International DX Contest - 2021

Call: LA5LJA
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA5LJA

Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 04:40

Summary:
Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  RTTY Qs  Mults
------------------------------------
                             
Total:  164     36      0      119  Total Score = 109,837

Club: Contest Club Norway

Comments:

Spend some hours in ARI-Contest.
Only 10 qso's saturday, garden work mostly this day.
Early up sunday 0700 local time,doing some qsos in a relaxing
mode, 1 qso on 10 mtr P3X, 11 q's on 15mtr,130 on 20mtr
and 58 on 40 mtr. Lets hope 10/15 mtr open for WPX CW..

søndag 25. april 2021

SPDX RTTY CONTEST 2021

SPDX RTTY Contest - 2021

Call: LA5LJA
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA5LJA

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 08:30

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:   47    34
   40:  150    68
   20:   98    39
   15:   26    18
   10:          
-------------------
Total:  321   159  Continents = 6  Total Score = 1,626,570

Club: CONTEST CLUB NORWAY

Comments:

Outside Windy, Cold +3 degrees and snow in the air.
Inside +23 degrees and a lot of radio's and rtty contest.
Easy Choice I stay inside. good Activity, bands not the best.
Some dx worked, but mostly EU's ,se some of you in the NeXt on.

YURI GAGARIN CW TEST 2021

Much activity, pity for me only 2 hours and 45 min on the air.
My new nabo have put up som chargeing system for his el-car.
It's totaly Block out 80 and 160. And make a terrible static on the other bands.
Yes all the way up to 6 mtr. He charge in night time so I still have some time rest for radio.
Must make a deal with him. No charging between saturday and sunday...hihi.
Have fun ...CW is still KING...
Had a great run on 40 mtr,cq for1 hour and 114 Calls in log.
Fun, practice for cq wpx contest in May

80:53
40:1145
20:8112
15:
10:
Sat:
Total:20020Total Score
19,660

 

Noise from my New nabo.
This is on 160 , noise goes up to 6 mtr
S7 on 40 mtr,make it very hard to rx anything at all.
I live on the contry side, should not have this problem
at all, but this I get for FREE....


onsdag 31. mars 2021

HC6IM #312 On 15mtr


New band point for me.
Equador on 15 mtr FT8.
Worked HC6IM on 21 March on 15 mtr
and confirmed the day after on LOTW.
Very happy , not so often I get a New
Challenge point/band point...this is # 2585
So a big thank you to you Ivan.

CQWW WPX SSB 2021

CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2021

Call: LA5LJA
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA5LJA

Class: SOAB LP
Class Overlay: Classic
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 14:30

Summary:
Band  QSOs
------------
  160:   28
   80:   90
   40:  156
   20:  196
   15:   30
   10:    0
------------
Total:  500  Prefixes = 342  Total Score = 321,480

Club: LA Contest Club

Comments:

A lot of stations to work.
Pity that 15 mtr not open ,only some sporadic
qso's there.  My goal was again 500 qso's.
Made it...but very tired in head..I prefer cw.
Some dx worked but conds was  so so...
Come on cycle 25...give us some FUN..

Russin DX Contest 2021

Russian DX Contest  2021

BandCW QsPh QsCountriesOblasts
160:2413
80:2311
40:4216
20:3838
15:1913
10:4
Total:362182150
91
Total Score
727,338

Goal 500 qso's, made it.

S&P only,great Activity from Russia.

Try for a better score NeXT year... 

Club: LA Contest Club

søndag 28. februar 2021

CQ 160 SSB CONTEST 2021

CQ 160-Meter Contest, SSB - 2021

Call: LA5LJA
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA5LJA

Class: Single Op Assisted HP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 05:15

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 131  State/Prov = 0  Countries = 30  Total Score = 19,200

Club: LA Contest Club

Comments:

160 SSB is madnes from my qth.
Running 180 watt, FTdx5000 into W8AMZ sloper
High noise Level here  from Power lines
and one of my new neighbor is buying all the
cheap led lamps he can get from Lithuania...
He is from *LY* he make s9+ qrm for me...
I Call his house *Chernobyl Power plant*...
My goal was 30 Dxcc countries...made it...
131 qso's is also personal best in 160 ssb..
Must have been the worst propagation for years.
Only heard VY2ZM from North America and he was weak..
But ok ,cu NeXT year...me and my neighbor will be QRV..

UBA-DX-CW CONTEST 2021

UBA DX Contest, CW - 2021

Call: LC7N
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LC7N

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 07:15

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:   58    32
   40:  133    34
   20:  109    13
   15:                
   10:               
-------------------
Total:  300    79  Total Score = 66,044

Club: LA Contest Club

Comments:

Just doing S&P for some hours.
Air_ing my contest Call for some hours.
Some Op's struggled with this Call.
Conds was so so at my qth.
More and less closed to Asia/japan and NA/SA.
Well maybe little activity outside EU.
C some of you in the NeXT one...

fredag 19. februar 2021

CQ WPX RTTY CONTEST 2021

 CQ WPX RTTY Contest - 2021

Call: LC7N
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LC7N

Class: SOAB LP
Class Overlay: TB-Wires 
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 30

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
   80:  245
   40:  361
   20:  303
   15:   57
   10:    0
------------
Total:  966  Prefixes = 483  Total Score = 1569750

Club: LA Contest Club

Comments:

This year I had time for a full effort.
For first time LC7N was on the air.
In a major ww contest ,it was fun.
That will say 30 hours in the chair.
Goal was set for 900 qso's and minimum 
600 qso's on 40/80 mtr....goal reached...
In other word 30 qso/hour for 30 hours.
After 24 hours i was near to give up I
had reached 811 qso's and 1040000 in points.
A good score for the 24 hour classic category.
But OK i go for full time ,made 155 q's in last 
6 hour...mostly S/P  some few smal runs. Find it very 
hard to find a frequency for a longer run..
A lot of stations qrv,plenty of calls to work.
New record for submitted logs this year (3800 logs)
Mostly EU worked, about 60 North Americans in log.
Only 1 station from Japan and a handfull Africans.
*****
80 Mtr antenna full size GP 4 elevated radials.
Find it hard to work anything at all. Last one 
in the que when i called a station.....lots of 
central EU's stations worked each other.
Dx worked WK1Q--ED8W--RG9A
*****
40 Mtr antenna Optibeam Dipole facing 320/140
Stuck in tower 20 Mtr up, work great,easy to 
Work stations, usually first call inside EU.
Dx worked A42K--T6A--HZ7C-WP3C--3V8SS--OD5ZF
+ only 6 North Americans .
*****
20+15 Mtr 360 Qso's 320 on Vertical GP7DX 
60 Q's to NA on this vertical, worked some Dx
Rest of Q's on Optibeam 11-5 (40 Q's) Locked to 
80 Degress East...this summer I will change the 
rotor in the tower ,no rotor for 5 years...
*****
Sunspot is coming 10 + 15 mtr will open again
will be a lot more easy to make a decent qso's ##
966 qso's on low power and with my antennas system
for this year, was a very good result....
Not much DX worked but it is a prefix contest... 

So CU in the next one...



A view of what I worked during

the contest, not much outside EU worked.

Lets hope for better conditions next year..

I think conds was simular to 2020
 

mandag 15. februar 2021

MEXICO RTTY Contest 2021

  Mexico RTTY International Contest - 2021

Call: LA5LJA
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA5LJA

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 03:15

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:   28    16
   40:   68    24
   20:    4     3
   15:           
   10:           
-------------------
Total:  100    43  Total Score = 12,900

Club: LA Contest Club

Comments:

Just for testing my set up, before wpx rtty test.
After my old pc crashed i have had some problem
with the micro ham router/ports/soundcard/radio/log.
I'm not a *software* guy ..more a hardware guy...
Since I'm a radio ham, I'm to proud to ask for help.
A red line in my life is to do everything by my self.

Everything worked ok...happy...
So se you in CQ-WPX-RTTY Contest..




søndag 7. februar 2021

NRRL HF CUP 2020


Once again I win the NRRL HF Cup.
Have win it before in 2012-2013-2015 and 2020.
Collect qsos/points during a year ,most points win.


 Ja da vant jeg igjen dette året.

Til sikkert noens store forargelse.

Ble vell noe overrasket da NRRL's contest manager 

i 2015 beskylte meg for å jukse etter CQ WW RTTY contesten.

Han mente bestemt jeg kjørte High power og claimed Low power.

Det vil si 50% mere poeng i cupen.

Gjorde meg fly forbanna, har ikke hatt PA-trinn siden Oktober 2010.

Har ett AL-1500 trinn med ødelagt rør, skiftet noen condensatorer 

i trinnet, men røret har gått,hvis noen har ett 3cx1500a7/8877 liggende.....

så er det bare å sende det til meg ....hehe...

Var en tulling som trodde jeg kjørte high power, han hadde prøvd og

kjøre high power i noen tester og funnet ut att jeg hadde ett veldig bra

signal i forhold til han, må ha vært mindre begavet....når du tror du

skal ha samme signal på en Butternut og noe som går rundt med en

6-8 dB gain i antenna er du jaggu tjukk i hue.

Tyder på att du kommer fra ett sted der du er vant til 

juksing , hadde jaggu vært spart for mye drit

med stengte grenser........

Og så hadde jeg 'key-clicks' på 160 mtr.

Må bare spørre hvor langt har du trøkt den *NB* bryteren inn.

Noise Blanker lager Key klikk på de fleste radioer.

Du har vel ikke hørt om FT-1000Mp og de problema den har hatt

ved sending....100 watt klikker også...

Tror det toppa seg under cq ww rtty 2015,da jeg ble

signal sjekka på 40 mtr fra en stasjon øst og vest for meg.

Men som jeg skriver en vertical og en FD4 er ikke en rotary dipole.

Men gudskjelov 'for noen' så knakk rotor drevet i rotoren min i Des 2015.

Så lite contet kjøring for meg de på følgende år.

Har ikke skiftet rotor enda, men blir vell til sommeren.

2020 ble det mye contest kjøring igjen, på vertical antenner .

Beam står nå ca 80 grader øst,så det hjelper jo på i den retningen.

Kina viruset ga mye hjemme tid og XYL ble corona fast i Asia

for  6 måneder, jaggu godt å være alene å....hehe..

Hadde ikke trodd att contest kjøring skulle føre til så mye misundelse

men det er vell noen TRYGDE/NAVERE som driver med radio å....

Så dra TRYGDEBUKSA langt oppi RÆVA og prøv og 

forbedre din stasjon og ferdighet, så muligens det blir noen

flere qso's på deg å......

Lykke til med contest kjøring i 2021.


ANTENNA-AMPLIFIERS 6 MTR YAGI

Late x-mas present recived in January.

The last years i have been running 50w on 6 Mtr into my 

rotary dipole for 40 mtr, some dx worked but you will

not be the first station in the log when a hot call-sign

pop up on your screen  .

For years I have called 6 mtr band ,

*THE HOUSE WIFES BAND*

Why well the openings have been very short and spoty.

So you need to sit in the shack and monitor the whole time.

Since I'm not retired ore retarded (many op's in 'LA' are)

FT8 have changed the style for operating on 6 Mtr..

longer band openings and MORE openings.

So I find time to enjoy more...

So in the summer I will put up a new tower for this 6 Mtr antenna.

 I buy this antenna from a Serbian Company.

Antenna-Amplifiers

7 element Boom length 8,7 Mtr



Every thing well packed.
Good marking of the elements.
Easy to build.
I think plug and play.
Se you on 6mtr this summer ....OK...



 

CQ WW 160 CW CONTEST

CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW - 2021

Call: LA5LJA
Operator(s): LA5LJA
Station: LA5LJA

Class: Single Op Assisted HP
QTH: JP50
Operating Time (hrs): 03:30

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 150  State/Prov = 10  Countries = 34  Total Score = 35,772

Club: LA Contest Club

Comments:

Only qrv sunday morning.
Running 180w from my FTDx5000.
DX worked EA8-K-KP2-VE.
States worked CT-DE-LA-MA-MD-NC-NJ-PA-PE-VA.
Great activity ,3326 logs recived so far.
Band is crowded a new station every 200Hz for 80 KHz.
Should have been more single band contest.....
To much work the week before the contest, make me lazy. 

Oooohh will try again next year....

AWARD FOR 2020



 

mandag 4. januar 2021

RM0F CQ ZONE #19 ON 80 MTR

RM0F a big thank you.
You helped me to get cq zone 19 on 80 mtr.
Have tryed for years to work zone 19,but no Luck...
This morning was a great opening to the east..
look on the map ,i worked some Japan stations also.
Qso on 29 Dec.  confirmed Lotw 30 Dec.
So Yuri  RM0F..thanks again.

Miller DX Club 2020

Miller  Dx Club celebrate x-mas 2020 and New year 2021.
Work som Special Event stations and collect point's.
I get gold award this year.
 



HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021

Happy and healty new year to the most of you.
2020 was a year popped up with this terrible
"China virus" A virus that realy have set  marks
on the whole world, the worst of it we havent seen yet.
I think it is more to come...
The world have stopped up..
Thanks good I still have my work....
The radio year have been a lot of contesting from my side.
Ended up With 15960 qso's
About 9120 cw q's-1510 ssb q's and 5330 digi q's
198 Dxcc's in log, not bad on low power
and mostly verticals antennas....
FT8 mode have killed the amateur radio..
It's a low Power mode and the idiots is killing it
With amplifiers.....well the worst one also
put it in a robot mode...on a loop cq cq...
We have some  FT8 robot's in Norway...
Where is the fun....
Where is the skilled Op.....
Ok I'm an grumpy old man..
Let's fold Our hands and beg for a better
year the year to come...