Mika Mäkeläinen,
United States
Editor of DXing.info
Mäkeläinen is the U.S.
bureau chief and chief correspondent in Washington,
D.C. for the Finnish
Broadcasting Company (YLE). Prior to that, he
worked as foreign news reporter for YLE and reported
also for CNN (mostly for the CNN World
Report), which has earned him four CNN prizes
since 1997. Mäkeläinen graduated from
the University of Helsinki. He has also done postgraduate
work in political science as a Knight
Fellow at Stanford University in the United
States and new media design at the University of
Arts and Design in Finland.
Before moving to Washington,
D.C., Mäkeläinen was based in Finland
and regularly reported from hot spots around the
world. His assignments have taken him to many developing
nations, including Brazil (picture above) and Peru;
an account
of the adventure from a DXing perspective is posted
on this website.
Mäkeläinen's expertise
both in foreign news and in shortwave broadcasting
has made him an often-quoted expert in international
radio and radio propaganda. If you're a fellow journalist,
this website can sometimes give you interesting
news from the world of radio, check out info
for journalists.
Mäkeläinen has been
DXing since 1980. His latest QSL count in February
2006 showed 206 verified countries and 2842 verified
broadcasting stations (MW, SW).
Mäkeläinen lives in
McLean, Virginia. It's an interference-infested
suburb of Washington D.C., which, unfortunately
is not the ideal place for serious AM DXing. This
is why Mäkeläinen hopes to continue visiting
Lemmenjoki
in the Finnish Lapland for more DXpeditions (see
the latest DXpedition report here).
Although it can get cold (-35 degrees when the picture
was taken), it is worth the trouble. All his DXpedition
reports since 1990 are posted in the DXpeditions
section of this site. In Nordic logs and statistics
he is identified using the abbreviation MTM.
Aside from being an active DXer,
Mäkeläinen has used his experience in
www concept design to promote DXing on the Internet.
His website Freeze! DXing Arctic Style was
launched in 1998 and later rebranded as DXing.info.
You can reach Mäkeläinen by emailing him
at: mika @ makelainen.com.
  
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