[CQ-Contest] RADIO ARCALA TEAM POISED TO STRIKE HARD IN CQWW SSB

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RADIO ARCALA TEAM POISED TO STRIKE HARD IN CQWW SSB


Helsinki
October 25, 2011


RADIO ARCALA TEAM POISED TO STRIKE HARD IN CQWW SSB

It is that great time of the year when the Northern folks typically head 
South but now increasingly also allow their own hardware to speak for 
Nordic supremacy.

MARKET REEF, OJ0X
Challenging the soon-to-be freezing sea, they try to activate Market
Reef for the first time as a CQWW SSB Contest multiplier. If lucky on
this week’s Thursday landing, OJ0X will be aired by Timo, OG9X; Olli,
OH0XX; Martti, OH2BH; Harri, OH6VM and Teemu, SM0W in the Multi-2 category.
You can follow their adventure at www.qrz.com/db/OJ0X

AZORES ISLANDS, CR2X
Early Tuesday morning, Toni, OH2UA heads to Radio Arcala's Atlantic
outpost to see how improved 10M propagation can push his score to
new heights. The Azores station is now furnished with a new dual
FTdx5000 setup, with OM Power auto amps at all Radio Arcala stations.

ALAND ISLANDS, OH0X
The world renowned OH0W site in Brando, Aland Islands, is now
integrated into the Radio Arcala station network as OH0X, and an old
warhorse Pertti, OH2PM will be shooting for Northern Europe SOAB
honors. Here the old wisdom is to face the challenge of young energy.
OH0X cut the finish line first in the recent Polar Battle (CW) - the
Scandinavian Activity Contest - with Toni, OH2UA at the helm.

NORTHERN FINLAND, OH8X
The Radio Arcala mother-ship on the Arctic Circle is to be manned by
Kim, OH6KZP amid good prospects for openings with polar
propagation on all three higher bands. The station recently won
the SSB Polar Battle (SAC) with Tonno, ES5TV at the controls.

SOUTHERN FINLAND, OH2BH
With a slightly different propagation outlook to North and West,
Pasi, OH6UM will try to maneuver somewhere in between, aiming to
show up as a dark horse in this battle and ride the Northern Lights to
another mathematical marvel while Martti is seaboard at OJ0X, now
in his 50th consecutive CQWW.

You have five runners from the Polar Region to look for and nail
down. Following the CQWW, these serious stations will present
their “clean sheets” - their success of staying up for 48 hours,
without touching their bed sheets! All four are true all-band
single-ops committed to following the newly promoted Contesting
Code of Conduct due to be released after the race in the upcoming
Contest Club Finland's PileUP! magazine, themed "The Last Blast".
All CQWW QSOs, SSB and CW, by Radio Arcala stations will be
confirmed on a single X-rated QSL card and through LoTW.

It is contesting time again at Radio Arcala.



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