Update 06 December, 2011:

The SAC Contest Committee, in their wisdom, have refused to acknowledge the fact that TF4X had the top score in Scandinavia in the category and only marked the certificate as 1st Place – Iceland…

All attempts at diplomacy failed, although the Contest Committee became divided over the issue.

I have therefore marked the Certificate accordingly myself.  A simple and elegant solution.

It is a little known fact that TF4M/TF4X and socially mature TF stations have since 2009 boycotted the SAC to bring pressure onto the Contest Committe in this matter.

If you have wondered about the absense of the top TF stations, this is the explanation.

It has now become crystal clear that the top TF stations will never again take part in the Scandinavian Activity Contest.

It is easy to win a contest, when the competition is absent.

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previously published in 2009:

Yngvi, TF3Y operated TF4X in the 51st Scandinavian Activity Contest on CW over the weekend.

The day before the contest, he made around 800 contacts to get acquainted with the new shack.

The score is higher than last year´s winning score in the Single Operator – 20M category.

Yngvi, TF3Y operating TF4X

At this point it looks like TF4X has the highest score in this category – this may of course change as scores get submitted…

UPDATE:  The results have been published and TF4X is the winner of this category!

Pl. Call QSO QSO-p Mult Score Op. --- ----------- ----- ----- ---- --------- ------
 1. TF4X         1.037   2.426    60     145.560   TF3Y
 2. OH7WW          771   1.882    55     103.510
 3. SM6A           632   1.577    63      99.351   SM6BGA
 4. SM3PZG         489   1.175    55      64.625
 5. SM7ZDI         503   1.244    51      63.444
 6. OH3I           390     992    47      46.624   OH9MM
 7. OH2AAZ         466   1.089    40      43.560   OH2BSI
 8. OH3LB          424     940    43      40.420
 9. SA3C           403     894    43      38.442   SM3CZS
10. OH2VZ          325     723    44      31.812

11. LA1QDA         364     792    36      28.512
12. OH2BCD         289     638    44      28.072
13. SM2CVH         298     637    44      28.028
14. SM7N           298     733    35      25.655   SM7NDX
15. SM3RL          297     657    35      22.995
16. SMØQ           274     604    37      22.348   SMØOGQ
17. SM1ALH         137     315    30       9.450
18. OH1ZE          123     261    32       8.352
19. OZ1IKY         123     291    25       7.275
20. OH6MBQ          92     213    32       6.816

21. OH3MC           99     241    28       6.748
22. OH1FJ           98     224    26       5.824
23. LA6GX           99     202    21       4.242
24. SM6WET          76     195    20       3.900
25. OH6NPV          70     155    22       3.410
26. SM3DFM          46     112    22       2.464
27. SM5DQE          33      76    14       1.064
28. SM6WZH          27      66    13         858
29. SM7DAY          21      51    16         816
30. OH2BN           13      30    10         300

31. OH7WV           11      25    10         250
32. SM6LTO           1       2     1           2

I made some recordings of the contest with my Beverage antenna system and the PERSEUS SDR.

You may download a file (147 MB) of the last few minutes of the contest spectrum on 20M CW and play back the spectrum using  WinRad on your own computer.

In order for WinRad to be able to play back recordings made by the PERSEUS software, you will have to download the PERSEUS DLL for WinRad and extract the files to the WinRad directory.

If there is demand, I can provide larger files of the last hour of so on 20M during the contest.

The station performed as expected, except we discovered, when I operated TF4M on 80M,  that the 80M antenna is located too close to the JA rhombic, causing 80M operation to trip the protection circuits on the amplifier on the 20M station.

I operated TF4M on 80M for 45 minutes out of the 24 hours and made 50 contacts.

Without bandpass filters in place, this discovery would have followed the total destruction of the 20M transceiver.  As it were, there was no damage, although the JA rhombic was picking up 50W or so from the 80M antenna….

The first indication of a problem was that I could hear faint noise coming from the 20M operation when listening on the TX antenna – there was no trace of any noise using the Beverage system.

I cascaded two sets of bandpass filters on both 80M and 20M stations, but I could still hear faint interference and then we noticed the faulting of the 20M amplifier when the station was switched to the JA rhombic.

I will solve the problem by relocating the 80M transmit antenna.

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