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KAMU9 DXpedition Report
November 24 - December 8,
1990
KAMU9
was one of those early DXpeditions where I couldn't
take any more equipment than I would be able to
carry - so just one receiver.
First I took a train to
Oulu, where Ari
Kilponen was waiting, and we continued up to
Kaamasmukka in Ari's car. I had my Yeasu FRG-7700,
but Ari's equipment included three receivers; JRC
NRD-525, Collins R-390A and Eska RX33.
In terms of antennae Kaamasmukka
is quite a challenge, as the area is mostly Arctic
tundra with hardly any trees. The antennae need
to be hung up on poles because otherwise reindeer
– and there are lots of them –
would mess everything. There are no permanent antenna
installations in Kaamasmukka, so putting it all
up, keeping it up, and eventually taking it down
means a lot of work.
Fortunately there were DXers
in this location before and after our DXpedition,
so we only needed to put up 2 kilometers of wire
and take down 5 kilometers... When completed, both
listeners were able to use four longwire antennae,
each 800-1000 meters in length, directed to Central
and North America. We added an antenna directed
to Japan, and of course the Japanese stations were
coming strong only when we were out working on that
antenna...
The best time for North American
stations was overnight November 27-28th, when the
first stations (from Quebec) were audible already
at 2000 UTC. No rarities, but we picked up some
new regional channel stations that night. Solar
indices didn't show any radical change, but from
Friday, November 30th, conditions deteriorated,
and for a week, North American stations were only
audible around sunrise in Finland (around 0600-0900
UTC). As a result, we paid more attention to other
continents, Ari hunted Pacific stations and Mika
also Asian stations.
My best catch was probably WHYZ
Sans Souci SC on 1070 kHz. I was also happy to hear
for the first time an AM station from Australia,
namely 4QD Emerald on 1548 kHz.
For a detailed
list of what we heard, see the KAMU9
DXpedition log, which includes loggings of both
me and Ari. For some logging guidelines, check out
notes on the log.
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Before and
after KAMU9, I attended the following DXpeditions,
for which there are no diaries online:
1980-1981 DXpeditions in Tampere, no records left
14.-16.2.1986 Koski school, Hattula (with MKA &
TJR)
27.-31.3.1986 Koski school, Hattula (with LAL, MKA,
STS & TJR)
3.-11.11.1986 LMMM Veskoniemi, Inari (with LN &
MKA)
1.-4.1.1987 Toholampi (with MKA)
6.-9.11.1987 MM1 Toholampi (with MKA)
14.-20.12.1987 MUD7 Muddusjärvi, Inari (with
MKA)
26.-31.12.1988 UULA13 Uutela, Inari (with LN &
MKA)
23.-27.3.1989 KI25 Kiljava, Nurmijärvi (with
TRE, JLE, MMA, IPA, RV, MP etc)
9.-19.11.1989 KAMU6 Kaamasmukka, Inari (with MKA)
7.-20.11.1992 LEM61 Lemmenjoki, Inari (with ARK)
30.10.-13.11.1993 LEM69 Lemmenjoki, Inari (with
HAS)
  
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