Talking about hams we often classify us in two categories – operators, also called communicators, and tweakers. The first group of hams is almost obsessed in making QSOs, the more the better, the faster or longer the better, the rarer …

My most frequent and reliable partner in the school presentation team has been Arska, OH2EC. He has been a constructor all his life. He retired from Nokia Mobile Phones some years ago after having installed dozens of mobile networks around the …

My first student Esko, OH2GTS, soon became the chairman of newly founded youth committee of SRAL. The committee consisted of enthusiastic boys and girls wanting to widen their Amateur Radio hobby to new areas never visited before. One of them …

It all started suddenly and unexpectedly around 8 years ago. A 14-year old schoolboy, Esko Mattila, sent me an email asking where he could learn Morse code. Later it appeared that he had got the spark from his father who had been …

Born in 1993, Mari OH2FPK, daughter of OH2BEA and Sister of OH2FDE, earned her first license at the SRAL 2009 youth training camp and the her Extra class in 2010 at the SUOMEN RADIOAMATOORILIITTO ry (SRAL) youth training camp where she also …