21st of July
Installation of radio in Torpedoboat T38, Karlskrona.
Ragnar, SM7XFZ and Bruno SM7HKM has spent a weekend in Karlskrona with the restoration of the radioroom. A vertical antenna rod is missing and electrical connections has to be solved. Receiver and transmitters are soon in operation!
Hopefully they will be finished with all work before the "longtrip" with T26, T56 and T38 and their reunion in Västervik in the end of August.
On the picture: Ragnar, SM7XFZ
30th of June
QSL-cards for 8S8TBS (Spica) and 8S8RBB (Ystad) have arrived from printing. We will send cards for all contacts as soon as possible via buro.
10-11th June
Museum ships weekend
Torpedoboat SPICA 8S8TBS participated in MSW during the Saturday (10th of June).
The torpedoboat Spica lying at the Wasa-museum in the middle of Stockholm. 
Peter,SM0BSO operating from the radioroom using the original radios onboard.
The basic conditions could have been a lot better. QRM at S9! from the Wasamuseum and another participant in MSW the icebreaker St. Erik 8S0HRA just a few meter away...Our antennas were not more than 2 meters from each other hi!
Well, very good cooperation between the two ships made the operation reasonable ok.
St. Erik had a dipole up in the air while we just relied on the original verticals onboard.
We had a great struggle to read the signals on the 80m band. Thought a dipole would have been better, but after a visit at St. Erik I realised the problem was more related to the QRM from the Wasa museum than to the vertical itself. Operators at St. Erik had quite a problem as well with the QRM. The dipole did not make much difference compared to the verticals on Spica.
The day was extremely hot, about 30 degrees celcius in the shadow, not to mention the temperature onboard the ship down in the small radioroom... Had to have a brake for lunch and a very cold beer for an hour.
We were two operators: me, Stellan / SM0LQB and Peter / SM0BSO: We managed to stay on the air for 8 hours. -Just making 87 QSO:s.
Anyhow, it was nice and a test for more operations in the future. Need to have more operators next year and a better QTH.
Probably we will operate next year from the robotboat Ystad, 8S8RBB next year, from Gålö, some 60km south of Stockholm. There the conditions are much better for such a mission.
QSL:s are soon to be printed and will be delivered for all contacts made.
73s de Stellan (Stan) SM0LQB
26th of May 2007
Transmitting from SPICA at the WASA museum / Stockholm.
Stellan /SM0LQB made some QSO:s from torpedoboat Spica / Wasamuseum Stockholm.
Using the original radios onboard.
Bad conditions unfortunately, 20 QSO:s on the 80 and 20 meter bands.
May 2007
Uppdates of the homepage:
Robotboat Ystad R142 added.
New Pictures in the gallery and T26, T56, T101 Spica.
New page with downloadable pdf files showing scematics and blueprints of old radios.
7th of January 2007:
Workshop 4-7th January at the museum.
Managed to make 30 QSO:s while repairing radios and antennas.
Will send out QSL-cards as soon as possible.
Added new wideo and photos T26 GALLERY.
9th of December 2006:
New languages added.
Please feel free to comment my translations. If something is misspelled or not ok.
Stellan, WEB-responsable / sk0mtb@yahoo.se
5th of Decenber 2006:
Soundfiles added: 50W KV M/54
4th November 2006:
Homepage uppdate
New pictures and text added to the homepage under T26 - 8S8MTB, T56 - 8S8CRM and GALLERY.
More pictures and info to come...
/Stellan
27th October 2006:
New homepage
released, enjoy!
(under construction)
23-24th September:
Activity weekend
The weekend 23-24 of September during the family activity day at the torpedoboat base at Gålö the radiomuseum SK0MTB activated the old shortwave radios on the 80 meter band.
Stellan, SM0LQB worked hard to make the QSO:s
Mainly the AM-mode was used and about 30 QSO:s were made with Swedish radioamateurs.
Two radios were in use:
-15W KV-tranceiver M/39.(Tranceiver made in 1939!) Due to bad earthing only 5W output on the 50meter longwireantenna. We managed to make 2 QSO:s on CW .
Longest QSO was to SM1DVV, QTH Gotland island.
-50W KV transceiver M/54. And GEC BRT receiver. TX connected to an inverted-V antenna .RX connected to indoor longwire. 30 QSO:s were made with amplitude modulation. Longest QSO with SM2EKM in Boden. Some tubes were destroyed, but what to expect from over 60 year old equipment! Sparetubes needed!
A lot of guests in the shack!
We still have a lot of work to do in the shack in the future. We will fix the 3W UK tranceiver M/39. We tuned it for the 50MHz and have the same radio in the T26 torpedoboat. Will be fun to work with UK radios from 1939! We will construct turnstyle antennas to connect to the radios.
Late at Sunday afternoon Stellan, SM0LQB called CQ from torpedoboat T26 (8S8MTB) with the 15W KV tranceiver and got a answer from OH0JHW at Eckerö. Nice reports, booth ways 599!
Some QSO:s were also made from the torpedoboat SPICA (8S8TBS). TX delivers 400W at maximum, but we still have problems with receiving antennas. We will check all cabling and hope to receive you all better soon!
It is thrilling and challenging to operate those radios and every QSO is a victory and encourage us to continue the very hard work to repair all old equipment and get it into operation. Really hope to have more contacts in the future.
QSL-cards to everyone when we have printed QSL-cards.
22 th August 2006:
8S8TBS is in the air!!!
Finally after nearly 5 years we managed to get the shortwave radio onboard the torpedoboat "SPICA" on the air!
A lot of work has been done to get it in working condition. (All credits to Kjell Lundin, Spica, who has spent several hours with reconnecting all lines in the radioshack) Output is 400 watts into a 10,7 m vertical antenna.
First contact was made on the 80 m band with SI9AM (the Thai pavillion in Ragunda)
QSL-cards will be printed soon.
We plan to activate the radio frequently in the future.
More news will come! / Stellan SM0LQB.
