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<H1>Four radio hams to join Radio Arcala contest team</H1>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma><STRONG>Radio Arcala, OH8X</STRONG>, reports great interest
and we have received many applications from younger contesters to travel to 65
degrees North and contest under large frozen antennas at </FONT><A
href="http://www.radioarcala.com/" target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>OH8X</FONT></A><FONT face=Tahoma>. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Given the level of interest, the conclusion is that hosting
young radio amateurs at contest stations should be promoted on a broader scale
as part of the contesting landscape. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The 2010 team will be welcomed to the city of </FONT><A
href="http://www.ouka.fi/english/index.asp" target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>Oulu</FONT></A><FONT face=Tahoma> by OH6KN and OH8NC.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma><STRONG>Marius Hauki, LB3HC</STRONG>, will be heading a
group of four and the team includes <STRONG>Andreas Kristiansen (30),
LA8AJA</STRONG>, <STRONG>Stein Roar Brobakken (30), LA6FJA</STRONG> and
<STRONG>Antti Nevantaus (28), OH7EA</STRONG>. They are experienced CW and
contest operators who look forward to putting out big signals from Radio Arcala.
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<P><FONT face=Tahoma>They plan to run M2 in the ARRL DX CW Contest and also to
be active the day before the contest. QSL via OH2UA.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>By the same token, <STRONG>Radio Arcala's Ville, OH2MM, is
moving permanently to Brazil and will soon be QRV as PY2ZEA</STRONG>.
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<P><BR><FONT face=Tahoma>His <STRONG>farewell operation from Europe will be in
the ARRL DX CW Contest as <FONT size=4><U>CR2X*</U></FONT></STRONG>.
<STRONG>Ville will team up in the <FONT size=4><U>Azores</U></FONT> with Martti,
OH2BH, and Pertti, OH2PM, as a multi-op entry</STRONG>. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>QSL via OH2BH.<BR></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>See also: OH8X Radio Arcala invitation<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2010/radio_arcala_invitation.htm"
target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2010/radio_arcala_invitation.htm</FONT></A>
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<P><FONT size=4><FONT size=3><U><FONT
face=Tahoma><STRONG>CU2X*</STRONG></FONT></U></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Verdana
size=2><BR><BR>Adding to the success of the previous CU2X location, a lot of
effort has been put into building a new radio site in Ribeira Grande, the second
largest city in the Azores, located on the north coast of Sao Miguel
Island. The new location also pushed the Azores team to new heights, making
their services available to their immediate community.<BR><BR>On October 4, 2008
Mr. Ricardo José Moniz da Silva, the Mayor of the City of Ribeira Grande, paid a
visit to the new location and made the very first radio contact at CU2X.
He spoke with Mr. Avelino Bettencourtt, CU2DE, another Azores operator in the
remote village of Ribeira Quente.<BR><BR>The significance of this radio contact
was that Mr Bettencourtt's amateur radio station offered the only means of
communication from his village when the area was hit by heavy rains, causing a
landfall and destroying many houses in his part of the island and isolating the
entire area from the rest of the island.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana size=2></FONT><FONT size=2><BR><FONT face=Verdana>The new
CU2X site will be fully set up for operation in any emergency situation, whether
inter-island or over the whole of Azores Islands.<BR><BR>The CU2X radio location
is manned by the Azores-Finland Friendship Consortium, and it is activated
frequently in conjunction with Amateur Radio special events and radio
competitions.<BR><BR><STRONG>The group behind the Azores-Finland Friendship
Consortium consists of:<BR>Fernando Tavares, CU2BV, </STRONG></FONT></FONT><SPAN
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</SPAN></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Verdana size=2><STRONG>Finnish
Honorary Consul to the Azores; Jose Melo, CU2CE and Francisco Gil, CU2DX and
from Finland, Martti Laine, OH2BH, Toni Linden, OH2UA and Juha Hulkko,
OH8NC</STRONG>.<BR><BR>The station is part of the Arcala Extremes radio
network.</FONT></P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>