Hamradio pictures: OH6ZS Heikki “Henry” Kulju Lapua, Finland Aviation pictures OH-U573

Hamradio pictures:

OH6ZS

Heikki “Henry” Kulju

Lapua, Finland

Aviation pictures OH-U573 (CT SW) etc.

Motorhome (RV) pictures

Rigs: Yeasu FT DX 5000, Kenwood TS-440S, Kenwood 2000, Linear amp: Alpha 9500 -

Bigboy antenna rotator. Rotates the tower upper part of the tower. Everything upwards from 18 meter level rotates. Heil PR-781 , MC-60 microphones.

Tower: 42 m (120 ft) plus 6 m (20 ft) steel pipe on top of the tower, total: 48 m ( 140 ft)

Antennas: 5 element monobander yagi for 20 m, at 30 m (100 ft) 5 elemet mono-bander yagi for 15 m at 36 m ( 120 ft )

Custcraft A3WS for 18/24 mhz at 42 m (130 ft), 10 m 6 element yagi at 36 m ( 120 ft), 50 Mhz 5 element yagi at 36 m ( 150 ft) Inverter V-dipole for 80 m feeding point at 18 m (55 ft) a dipole for 40 m at 15 m (50 ft) 2 m / 70 cm: Diamond X-510 vertical at 48 m (160 ft)

Heikki ”Henry” Kulju, Kuljuntie 6, 62100 Lapua Finland. Hamradio license since 1967.

Favorite modes: HF— SSB & CW. Most active on 15 — 20 — 17 m bands.

DX-PEDITIONS

Kiribati T30F 1990, British Virgin Isl. KP2/OH6ZS 1991, Cayman Isl. ZF2TN 1992, Belize V31ND 1994,

Aruba P34JB 1995, Trinidad and Tobago 9Y4TT 1997

The Old Tower and the storm of June 3rd 2003

The wind velocity reached up to a 200 km/h.

The tower twisted and then collapsed.

Pictures tell the story.

Fortunately we had insurance which covered the damages.

New Tower 2003

Look!

No hands!

I’m not scared of

hights — says Markku,

OH6MF

He sits on top of the very first

6 m section.

Arto

OH6LO

and Markku

OH6MF are

wondering

if the lifting system

will work

or not.

It worked fine!

Arto — OH6LO — the tower expert, keep eye on Markku - OH6MF— ”will it work out”? Yes, it will!

Up it goes!

5 element 20 m yagi

on the way to the tower.

Boom lenght 20 ft—12 m.

Jussi (OH6ZZ) at 100 ft

(30 m)

level

fine tuning

20 m 5 element yagi.

Would

you like

to try this

out?

I would

not!

Ready to

go up to

120 ft

Everything seem to be fine. Markku gives okay for the lift. Please note the weather conditions during the antenna work! The temperature was - 17 C ( 1 f )

Bigboy rotator is mounted on 18 meter level. The upper section of the tower rotates. Bearing is mounted just below of a 20 m yagi.

Meanwhile the tower and antennas were down, the Hidaka vertical was the ”main” antenna for my HF-working. ” Better than nothing.” An unique experience for a ”yagi-ham” to operate with a vertical.

7 pcs of 6 meter

(20 ft) tower sections

were used.

Another one going up.....

Supporting

tower was used to help the assebly

process.

E-mail:

Click the book

below!

International phone:

+358-6-4387313

Cell: +358- 400-666076

Puh: 06- 4387313

GSM: 0400- 666076

E-mail: dante@japo.fi

Transmitting SRAL news bulletin for OH-hams on 80, 40 & 2 m bands simultaneously. Henry has been so called ”news anchor” for over 28 years for SRAL. Bulletin is transmitted every Saturday 3 pm local time. Henry’s turn is every 3rd Saturday. Two other stations take there turns 2nd and 3rd Saturdays. OH1A, OH2K and Henry uses OH6SRAL call sing. This is a voluntary ”job” for SRAL (Finnish Radio Amateur League) and our local club station OH6AC earns small annual fee for taking care of the bulletin service for OH-Hams.

The Tower / antenna master himself — Art (Arto) OH6LO—”man of many towers”. This is the second tower Art has build for me.

Aviation as a hobby — past 25 years - Ilmailuharrastukseni

Aircraft: CT SW (Flight Design) Model 2008 .

2 seats, 2 paikkainen, 100 hv Rotax 912 moottori, ballistic recovery system.

Varustettu autopilotilla, (Autopilot), Dynon avionics, EMS-D120 Engine monitoring system,

Garmin SL40, ELT emergency transmitter,

Garmin GTX327 A/C transponder, Garmin 496 GPS.

Wing span:8,53 m, Lenght: 6,21 m

Max. fuel: 128 l.

Cruising speed 230 km/h / 113 kts (lentonopeus)

CT SW is my 4th own airplane.

I got my PPL— private pilot license 1975. CT-SW is registered in Finland as an ultra light airgraft.

This is my current station.

Yaesu FT-DX 5000

Kenwood TS-2000

and Kenwood TS440S.

Alpha 9500 linear amp.

I use this set up mostly

for transmitting SRAL

(Finnish Radio league)

news bulletin on

80, 40 & 2 m bands.

We are centrally located in Finland. Therefore

every ham in Finland

will hear the news bulletin always.

We use call sign

OH6SRAL for bulletins.

I had this set up for about 20 years.

Lapua town from 1000 ft

Landing to Kauhava (EFKA) airport runway 35. (My home airport.

About 15 miles ( 20 km) from Lapua.

September

2010

Arto (OH6LO) and Markku OH6MMC making final

adjustements before rising up new addions on the tower. (10 m & 50 Mhz antennas)

Approaching to Lycksele

Airport in Sweden.

(Left)

Parking at Lycksele airport. (Right)

2010 September situation:

10 m yand 50 Mhz

antennas were

added.

Flying to Åland island ( OH0 ) Marienhamn airport EFMA.

It’s an island between Finland and Sweden.

It’s always an interesting experience to cross a sea in a single engine airplane.

We have GPS and autopilot installed to the plane. It’s good to have

latest version of a VFR aviation map on a lap.

Flying back to home airport

from Åland island.

Ready for departure at EFMA airport in Marienhamn Åland island.

It takes 2 h15 minnutes to my home airport EFKA (Kauhava) from Åland.

Above the Gulf of Botnia.

(May 2010)

Flying from Finland to Sweden.

Some ice still

floating on the sea.

Somewhere in Finland.

(Right)

My former profession in show business:

Magician Al Dante

Visit to my magic site — click here

New magic site in Finnish—click here

Click to gallery for videos & pictures

My former business: wood—and metal working machines & hamradio store click here

Our current Acupuncture supplies business

click here

* Helsinki

”Head Chopper” Comedy routine with a

volunteer assistant from audience.

20 years full time entertainment.

Today I do magic shows as a semi pro.

My latest Motor Home model 2013 — Burstner Elegance i890

Above some pictures from our recent motor home trip around Europe. It was nearly a three-week trip. About 9500 km. Our trip started from Umeå – Sweden. We took a ferry boat from Vaasa, Finland to Sweden. A 4 hour crossing. Then we drove down to south Sweden Malmö, then through Denmark, to Puttgraden Germany,( One hour ferry boat to Germany from Denmark) down to Karlsruhe (Germany) then to France, by Lyon down to Barcelona area in Spain, and to south Spain Malaga area. After that we headed to north by western Spain to the N. W. corner of Spain. Then to France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark and by Sweden back to Finland.

My wife Elisa and our 7 year old dog Saku were with me on a trip.

That was the first trip with this RV. It’s a 9 meter long vehicle. It’s equiped with 2,5 kW generator, satelite dish, two TV-sets, 2nd in “bedroom” and an air conditioning system. (There’s also driver air conditioning ) Extrenal WIFI antenna. It’s weight is about 5,5 t. (kg)

We lost our 8 year old dog 31.12-2013 and below you see the “reincarnation” of the new one.

Operating from Spain as EA/OH6ZS/p ( With IC-706MKII and a dipole — 3 m up.

CQ CQ CQ this is…..

On east coast of Spain. Our dog has not seen the ”big” sea before.

Caravan Campsite in Oliva Spain. (On the east coast of Spain — near Vanlencia