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Hamradio pictures: OH6ZS Heikki “Henry” Kulju Lapua, Finland Aviation pictures OH-U573 (CT SW) etc.
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Rigs: Yeasy FT DX 5000, Kenwood TS-440S, Kenwood 2000, Linear amp: Alfa 9500 - Yeasy G2800 DXC antenna rotator. Rotates the tower upper part of the tower. Everything upwards from 18 meter level rotates.
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 yage 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) Dipole for 40 m at 15 m (50 ft) 2 m / 70 cm: Diamond X-510 vertical at 48 m (160 ft) |
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Heikki ”Henry” Kulju, Kuljuntie 6, 62100 Lapua Finland. Hamradio license since 1967. Favorite mode: HF— SSB & CW. Most active on 15 — 20 — 17 m bands.
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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
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The Old Tower and the storm of June 3rd 2003 |
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The wind velocity reached up to 200 km/h. The tower twisted and then collapsed. Pictures tells the story. Fortunately we had insurance which covered the damages.
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New Tower 2003 |
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Look! No hands! I’m not scared of Hights — says Markku, OH6MF He sits on top of the very first 6 m section. |
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Arto OH6LO and Markku OH6MF are wondering if the lifting system will work or not.
It worked fine! |
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Arto — OH6LO — the tower expert, keep eye on Markku - OH6MF— ”will it work out”? Yes, it will! |
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Up it goes! 5 element 20 m yagi on the way to the tower. Boom lenght 20 ft—12 m. |
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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!
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Ready to go up to 120 ft |
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Everything seem to be fine. Markku gives okay for the lift. Please note the weather conditons during the antenna work! It was - 17 C ( 1 f )
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Bigboy rotator is mounted on 18 meter level. The upper section of the tower rotates. Bearing is mounted just below of 20 m yagi.
We have installed Yeasu G2800 DXC rotator in Septeber 2010.
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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. |
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7 pcs of 6 meter (20 ft) tower sections were used. Another one going up.....
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Supporting tower was used to help the assebly process.
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© 2012 H. Kulju |
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E-mail: Click the book below! |
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International phone: +358-6-4387313 Cell: +358- 400-666076 Puh: 06- 4387313 GSM: 0400- 666076 E-mail: dante@japo.fi |
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Transmitting SRAL news bulletin for OH-hams on 80, 40 & 2 m bands simultaneously. Henry has been so called ”news anchor” for over 25 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. |
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The Tower / antenna master himself — Art (Arto) OH6LO—”man of many towers”. This is the second tower Art has build for me. |
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Aviation as a hobby — Ilmailuharrastus |
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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.
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Wing span:8,53 m, Lenght: 6,21 m Max. fuel: 128 l. Cruising speed 230 km/h / 113 kts (lentonopeus)
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This is my current station.
Yaesu FT-DX 5000 Kenwood TS-2000 and Kenwood TS440S. Alfa 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 of OH6SRAL for bulletins.
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I had this set up for about 20 years. |
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Lapua town from 1000 ft |
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Landing to Kauhava (EFKA) airport runway 35. (My home airport. About 15 miles ( 20 km) from Lapua. |
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September 2010 |
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10 m & 50 Mhzs antennas were added in Sep. 2010 |
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Arto (OH6LO) and Markku OH6MMC making final adjustements before rising up new addions. (10 m & 50 Mhz antennas) |
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Approaching to Lycksele Airport in Sweden. (Left)
Parking at Lycksele airport. (Right)
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2010 September situation: 10 m yand 50 Mhz antennas were added. |
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Flying to Åland island ( OH0 ) Marienhamn airport EFMA. It’s an island between Finland and Sweden. |
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It’s always an interesting experience to cross a sea in a single engine airplane. |
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We have GPS and autopilot installed to the plane. It’s good to have latest version of VFR aviation map on a lap. Flying back to home airport from Åland island.
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Ready for departure at EFMA airport in Marienhamn Åland island. It takes 2 h15 minnutes to my home airport EFKA (Kauhava) from Åland. |
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Over Gulf of Botnia. (May 2010) Flying from Finland to Sweden. Some ice still floating on the sea.
Somewhere in Finland. (Right) |
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Visit to my business site: We import wood — and metal working machines from China. We have also hamradio store. |
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* Helsinki |
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”Head Chopper” Comedy routine with a volunteer assistant from audience.
20 years full time entertainment. Today magic shows as a semi pro. |
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This is my current motor home. I have IC-706MK II in use. This picture was taken in Hannover in Germany during my trip to Hannover fair in September 2011. |
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This picture was taken summer 2011 in Helsinki. |
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Our ”beast” |
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Grandchilden Miia & Emilia (right) Pictures were taken winter 2011. Cold weather does not seem to bother them. |
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3rd and 4th of our grandchilden. Emma and 2 month old Jussi baby. |