Thank you for the guided tour Mika. I was glad to know that you were feeling the cold outside!! I live in Queensland in grid QG64la (Cooloola Cove to the east of Gympie, and near Fraser Island). 4BU is just a few hundred km up the road from me. I used to work at 4QW St George a 10kW station using twin 585' vertical masts. Good luck with the AM DXing in that wonderful wilderness. Just incredible.
Congratulations Mika !! This was the right time you guided us to a visit to the famous "DX Cabinet" in Aihkiniemi: the paradise of DX. This visit gives us a foretaste of the excitement, the thrill of DXing in Lapland. I wish me, as well as all DX'ers to spend some DX'Days, there in Aihkiniemi-Land. Receive my best regards! From Italy with passion. Alfredo Gallerati (A.R.I. Italian Radio Amateurs Association)
Greetings Mika! Thanks for the interesting tour of the Aihkiniemi cabins. You and I met years ago at a Grayland, WA USA DXpedition-- October 2003... can you believe it's been 17 years! I have a photo somewhere of all eight of us standing in front of the late, great Grayland Motel :^) 73, Guy Atkins
Yes, I remember the trip very well! It was fabulous to be able to join your DXpedition! The company was great, and the Pacific coastline certainly made for an impressive landscape.
Hi Mika-san , I really enjoyed watching your brief tour of your DXpedition site at Aihkiniemi. I am really surprised at your 14 beverage antennas! I really envy you. :-)
Great tour Mika. It's nice to see where it all comes together. I'm very impressed with all the pins in the map of Australia. Bucket list DXpedition site.
Thanks for the nice tour Mika and of course the perfect reception report @ 2274 km from my little LPAM station in Holland!! Fourteen 1 km long beverage antennas is quite impressive, a first class UNDERSTATEMENT :-)). After repairs last week, my humble KiwiSDR is back online, when you are at home, you can listen to many LPAM stations. Of course a Wellbrook ALA1530LN loop is nothing but for Dutch man-made BULK noises :-(, it is quite a nice control receiver for my LPAM station 4 kms further in a small forrest area. Next days a new challenge to master, I increasingly have corona effects at the end of the antenna, nice to see but annoiing because you HEAR the station at ground level! Maybe a corona ring will help so I am off-air when the weather is okay to perform repairs. Maybe you can reply or send an e-mail about this question, where do you get the power from and how do you succeed in eliminating power line noise for the big beverage antennas? 73's and greetz from René (PE0RL / Album AM / www.albumam.nl ), Uden - The Netherlands.
Hi René! Many thanks for your compliments! It was indeed a great pleasure and a very happy surprise to catch your station in Lapland! We are connected to the electric grid. The main powerline is along the road, and its noise remains a bit of a problem here as well. The main powerline runs 200-300 meters from the cabin, but it only affects the antenna that is closest to it, our 60-degree wire, which starts about 100 meters from the powerline, and runs mostly parallel. All the antennas have a coax feed cable, which should protect from most of the noise. This noise is detectable only during daytime when signal levels are low, and after sunset it doesn't make any difference. We have purposefully placed all the remaining Beverage antennas further from the powerline, even at the expense of a slight loss in signal level due to having a longer coax feed.
@@Mikareport Well under control, keep up the good job. When you are back and my antenna works better, I will transmit 24/7 in the weekend. When this is the case, I e-mail Jim @ DXing.com.
@@pauljansen2002 Great! You probably refer to Jim Solatie? Neither me or Jim are involved in dxing.com, but I maintain dxing.info. Jim's email is separate, but it was mentioned in his reception report to you.
@@Mikareport Aha, right. Jim came with the idea for the morse jingle so I use it all the time (every approx. 15 min Album AM in 15 wpm, about 5 seconds). Works perfect for DX so Jim could hear me last spring @ 1422 km distance during a DXspedition in Bromarv. Nice to have such a good DX spot!!
Wonderful to see the cabine in a new stylet with nice Equipment and find organisation My Qsl card is still on the wall, thanks Mika for the great video. Best 73s
No, we don't. This is a place which we aim to preserve as a traditional place to DX live, on the site. There are plenty of other Kiwi receivers elsewhere in Finland, but of course none with anything close to our array of antennas.
Different DXers use different kinds of receivers. My favorite is the Perseus, and I have had 2-3 Perseus receivers, recording the entire AM band simultaneously, with antennas beamed to different directions, whenever conditions merit serious DXing.
Your cabins are the envy of every MW DX-er!
Thank you for the guided tour Mika. I was glad to know that you were feeling the cold outside!!
I live in Queensland in grid QG64la (Cooloola Cove to the east of Gympie, and near Fraser Island). 4BU is just a few hundred km up the road from me. I used to work at 4QW St George a 10kW station using twin 585' vertical masts. Good luck with the AM DXing in that wonderful wilderness. Just incredible.
Ha ha, I'd much rather DX on the Queensland coast, and take a dip in the Ocean between DX sessions ;)
Wonderful video, Mika! Incredible....124 DXpeditions in 10 years, and 14 x 1 km Beverages. Did I say, "incredible"?
Vey nice set up, Mika. A trip to this site is definitely on my bucket list. I hope to get back to Finland sometime soon and meet up with you again.
Congratulations Mika !! This was the right time you guided us to a visit to the famous "DX Cabinet" in Aihkiniemi: the paradise of DX. This visit gives us a foretaste of the excitement, the thrill of DXing in Lapland. I wish me, as well as all DX'ers to spend some DX'Days, there in Aihkiniemi-Land. Receive my best regards! From Italy with passion. Alfredo Gallerati (A.R.I. Italian Radio Amateurs Association)
Great! I hope to see you here some day!
Thank you for the tour, it was fascinating to watch! Very impressive DXing setup!
Simply amazing, Mika!! Thank you so very much for the tour! A true AM DXer paradise!
Great tour, wish we had something like that down here in VK land. 73's
Greetings Mika! Thanks for the interesting tour of the Aihkiniemi cabins. You and I met years ago at a Grayland, WA USA DXpedition-- October 2003... can you believe it's been 17 years! I have a photo somewhere of all eight of us standing in front of the late, great Grayland Motel :^) 73, Guy Atkins
Yes, I remember the trip very well! It was fabulous to be able to join your DXpedition! The company was great, and the Pacific coastline certainly made for an impressive landscape.
The old place was remodeled in to a big bed-and-breakfast a few years ago, and is now for sale for two-million USD.
Hi Mika, thank you for the tour of your very cozy facilities! Fascinating and very interesting.
Hi Mika-san , I really enjoyed watching your brief tour of your DXpedition site at Aihkiniemi. I am really surprised at your 14 beverage antennas! I really envy you. :-)
Great tour Mika. It's nice to see where it all comes together. I'm very impressed with all the pins in the map of Australia. Bucket list DXpedition site.
Fascinating, thank you Mika. Best 73s.
Thanks for the nice tour Mika and of course the perfect reception report @ 2274 km from my little LPAM station in Holland!! Fourteen 1 km long beverage antennas is quite impressive, a first class UNDERSTATEMENT :-)). After repairs last week, my humble KiwiSDR is back online, when you are at home, you can listen to many LPAM stations. Of course a Wellbrook ALA1530LN loop is nothing but for Dutch man-made BULK noises :-(, it is quite a nice control receiver for my LPAM station 4 kms further in a small forrest area. Next days a new challenge to master, I increasingly have corona effects at the end of the antenna, nice to see but annoiing because you HEAR the station at ground level! Maybe a corona ring will help so I am off-air when the weather is okay to perform repairs. Maybe you can reply or send an e-mail about this question, where do you get the power from and how do you succeed in eliminating power line noise for the big beverage antennas? 73's and greetz from René (PE0RL / Album AM / www.albumam.nl ), Uden - The Netherlands.
Hi René! Many thanks for your compliments! It was indeed a great pleasure and a very happy surprise to catch your station in Lapland! We are connected to the electric grid. The main powerline is along the road, and its noise remains a bit of a problem here as well. The main powerline runs 200-300 meters from the cabin, but it only affects the antenna that is closest to it, our 60-degree wire, which starts about 100 meters from the powerline, and runs mostly parallel. All the antennas have a coax feed cable, which should protect from most of the noise. This noise is detectable only during daytime when signal levels are low, and after sunset it doesn't make any difference. We have purposefully placed all the remaining Beverage antennas further from the powerline, even at the expense of a slight loss in signal level due to having a longer coax feed.
@@Mikareport Well under control, keep up the good job. When you are back and my antenna works better, I will transmit 24/7 in the weekend. When this is the case, I e-mail Jim @ DXing.com.
@@pauljansen2002 Great! You probably refer to Jim Solatie? Neither me or Jim are involved in dxing.com, but I maintain dxing.info. Jim's email is separate, but it was mentioned in his reception report to you.
@@Mikareport Aha, right. Jim came with the idea for the morse jingle so I use it all the time (every approx. 15 min Album AM in 15 wpm, about 5 seconds). Works perfect for DX so Jim could hear me last spring @ 1422 km distance during a DXspedition in Bromarv. Nice to have such a good DX spot!!
Nice equipment MIka and well organised :) Thanks for sharing 73!
Wonderful to see the cabine in a new stylet with
nice Equipment and find organisation
My Qsl card is still on the wall, thanks Mika for the great video. Best 73s
Nice tour Mika. 14 antennas, wow!
Thanks for the very enjoyable tour Mika !! Great setup there
What a GREAT tour!
I enjoyed it very much. Thank you, Mika-san.
Aah, pakkaslumen ääni 💕
Tääl Turuus ei moista kuule.
Mukava ja avartava pätkä!
How you heating houses in winter? It's cold inside? You take technical or drink water from the lake or something else? Thank you!
We have electrical heating, and so it is quite warm in any kind of weather. We get water for drinking and washing from a well.
That's it rub it in there Mika......... Yes I'm Jealous!!!!!! Now have apply for a pass passport........
Great! Hopefully you're able to travel here some day and experience a DXpedition with the best possible AM antennas.
do you any online receivers there? Kiwisdr, etc..
No, we don't. This is a place which we aim to preserve as a traditional place to DX live, on the site. There are plenty of other Kiwi receivers elsewhere in Finland, but of course none with anything close to our array of antennas.
What rx are you using there ?
Different DXers use different kinds of receivers. My favorite is the Perseus, and I have had 2-3 Perseus receivers, recording the entire AM band simultaneously, with antennas beamed to different directions, whenever conditions merit serious DXing.
@@Mikareport ......where does the energy come from in the wilderness (electricity, heating)