Aurora Contest Team LA8W - LN8W

Aurora Contest Team will be active from different QTH's this year.

LN8W op. LA7MFA SO2R AB HP from "home".
LN1T op. LB1GB Bjorn SO AB HP from Tønsberg.
LB8IB had to pass due to family commitments.

Good Luck to all.

Long story short:

We are now Aurora Contest Team. LA Contest Club is now the main club of Norway.

Website is here: Contesting.no

Clubs and Teams associated with LA Contest Club:

• Vestfold Contest Club - LA3Z
• Leia Contest Club -  LA9Z
• Aurora Contest Team - LA8W

Olaf LB8IB will participate in the Russian DX Contest on 15.-16. of March 2008.

Call: LN8W
Op: LB8IB
Class: SOAB Mix HP
LN8W's RDXC 2008 Claimed

List of Norwegian RDXC records

By: Sylvan Katz, VE5ZX and José Nunes, CT1BOH

"In the spring of 2007 José, CT1BOH, a world-class contester and a member of the CQWW contest committee, contacted Sylvan, VE5ZX, a contester and complex systems scientist. He had read an article Sylvan had written on amateur radio contesting. He wanted to know if Sylvan would be interested in working with him on a research problem.

José wanted to know if the CQWW cw logs could be used to find unique signatures for world class stations using two radios in the SOAB unassisted, SOAB assisted (SOAB A) and multi-operator one transmitter (MS) entry classes. Both SOAB classes and MS can use two radios. The single operator class can only have one signal on the air at a time (SO2R) while the MS stations can have two signals on the air, provided the second signal is used to work new multipliers. If unique signatures can be found then they might be useful for verifying the entry class of a log. This seemed like an exciting research project that would improve our understanding of radio sports and perhaps provide adjudicators with insights for techniques to aid decision making activities. So began an exchange of emails, telephone calls, spreadsheets, graphs and tables in search of two radio event signatures. The research reported in this article was completed in December of 2007."

This is a very interesting article, which also shows why C4M was disqualified in CQ WW CW 2006.
Read the complete article at: http://www.radiosport.ca/rsrp/CQWW log analysis.php

The 160M inverted L is up again and Lech LA7MFA will be active as LN8W in this years CQ WW 160M CW entering the SOHP not assisted category.

• Link to official website

Update 4. Feb. 2008: Inverted L. up again. Lets hope it stays that way a few years.

Update 1. Feb. 2008: Inverted L. on 160 was totalled in the lastest storm "Tuva". So again we are QRT on 160M.

Update: The 40M 4-square gave in as well. We now have to rely on the less effective 2EL shorty forty beam for the rest of the season.

Due to heavy icing, our 160M inverted L broke today. The top 1 meter or so snapped because of the worst case of icing for over a decade on this QTH. Our host Peter LA7SL is doing the best he can to prevent damages to our antennas, but icing 20 meters up is hard to handle.

From Randy Thompson, K5ZD's live audio archive. QSO made on day 1 at 16:29.

Audio with Randy's permission. Visit his website at www.k5zd.com