DXing in Aihkiniemi, Lapland

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Join me on a virtual tour of the Aihkiniemi DXing base in Lapland, in northern Finland. This is a nonscripted five-cent tour looking at what the Aihkiniemi cabin can offer for visiting AM DXers. The video was shot in November 2020 during DXpedition AIH124 - meaning that during the first decade of its existence, Aihkiniemi has already hosted 124 successful expeditions. Sorry, I forgot to shave... The antennas (a total of 14 Beverage-type wire antennas) are permanent, but participants bring their own receivers and laptops. There's one essential activity missing from this video though: checking the antennas, which is a major job. Every DXer is expected to check - and if necessary, clean and repair - all the antennas, which run in the forests around the cabin. For the antennas, check out some of the first videos on my channel.

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@davidsradioroom9678 2 жыл бұрын

Your cabins are the envy of every MW DX-er!

@TheReportOfTheWeek 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tour, it was fascinating to watch! Very impressive DXing setup!

@daddio61 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Mikareport 3 жыл бұрын

Ha ha, I'd much rather DX on the Queensland coast, and take a dip in the Ocean between DX sessions ;)

@volodyacanuke 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video, Mika! Incredible....124 DXpeditions in 10 years, and 14 x 1 km Beverages. Did I say, "incredible"?

@darrinpearce9780 3 жыл бұрын

Great tour, wish we had something like that down here in VK land. 73's

@jcfontario 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Stephaniefyh 3 жыл бұрын

Simply amazing, Mika!! Thank you so very much for the tour! A true AM DXer paradise!

@alfredogallerati159 3 жыл бұрын

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)

@Mikareport 3 жыл бұрын

Great! I hope to see you here some day!

@4nradio782 3 жыл бұрын

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

@Mikareport 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@kenenglish124 Жыл бұрын

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.

@eurekafumi 3 жыл бұрын

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. :-)

@peterbrooke5680 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Mika, thank you for the tour of your very cozy facilities! Fascinating and very interesting.

@OnleyDx 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@STREETTV26 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ParamDxer 3 жыл бұрын

Nice equipment MIka and well organised :) Thanks for sharing 73!

@pauljansen2002 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Mikareport 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@pauljansen2002 3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Mikareport 3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@pauljansen2002 3 жыл бұрын

@@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!!

@miketerry501 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating, thank you Mika. Best 73s.

@radiosiesta731 3 жыл бұрын

What a GREAT tour! I enjoyed it very much. Thank you, Mika-san.

@Minunmaani 3 жыл бұрын

Aah, pakkaslumen ääni 💕 Tääl Turuus ei moista kuule.

@allenwillie8583 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the very enjoyable tour Mika !! Great setup there

@tomdxer921 3 жыл бұрын

Nice tour Mika. 14 antennas, wow!

@KalaJormat 3 жыл бұрын

Mukava ja avartava pätkä!

@AlexeyDXman Жыл бұрын

How you heating houses in winter? It's cold inside? You take technical or drink water from the lake or something else? Thank you!

@Mikareport Жыл бұрын

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.

@timsmith428 Жыл бұрын

do you any online receivers there? Kiwisdr, etc..

@Mikareport Жыл бұрын

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.

@TheRifleman336 2 жыл бұрын

That's it rub it in there Mika......... Yes I'm Jealous!!!!!! Now have apply for a pass passport........

@Mikareport 2 жыл бұрын

Great! Hopefully you're able to travel here some day and experience a DXpedition with the best possible AM antennas.

@vermessungschinkschleiden Жыл бұрын

What rx are you using there ?

@Mikareport Жыл бұрын

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.

@vermessungschinkschleiden Жыл бұрын

@@Mikareport ......where does the energy come from in the wilderness (electricity, heating)