Updated 16-Jan-2001 

The 7th International
Contest/DX Meeting in FINLAND

19-21 January 2001
Tampere Spa Hotel
( pre-registration to: [email protected] )

** updated agenda! **

From OH3AG Web site, fresh meeting action pictures!

Dear fellow Contesters / DXers,

It’s time to summarize year 2000 – and there sure is a LOT to summarize and talk about, isn’t there. Contest Club Finland (CCF) gladly once again calls all the contesters / DXers around the whole contesting / DXing world to come and join the great contesting / DXing company and atmosphere in the CCF’s 7th annual Contest / DX meeting, held on 19-21 January, 2001.

Come and enjoy the great contest / DX related presentations by world top class contesters / DXers, not to mention the excellent "rag-chewing" company of all the fellows so familiar to you from all those big pile-ups! In the previous meeting we had already 40+ foreign visitors from CT, DL, ES, G, HA, JA, LA, OZ, UA, SM, W, YL and ZS, not to forget the 100+ OH/OH0 contesters / DXers! This year we have heard rumours that our meeting will have visitors from USA, Japan, Germany, Slovenia, Baltic countries, Sweden, Norway, Russia etc etc!

Please book now the second latest weekend of January 2001, the weekend just before CQ 160m CW, for visiting this great and unforgettable contest / DX event!

Presentations with perspective - preliminary agenda:

Friday 19th January (Tampere Spa Hotel)

19:00 -> Get-together (unofficial)

Saturday 20th January (Tampere Spa Hotel)

10:00 - 11:00 CCF - future planning (for members)

11:30 - 18:00

Part 1 11:30 - 13:30

* "Welcome!" - OH6YF, OH1VR, OH6EI

* "Battle of the Channel Islands, Finnish version." "GJ2A vs. MU2K" - K2WR

* "VP5L - The Lima Alfa Contest Club LA8W goes West!" - LA9HW

* "SK3W/SK3GW - The 'Challenger' " - SM3SGP

* "Russian DX Contest" - RA3AUU

Coffee pause, 30 min

Part 2 14:30 - 16:15

* "The Secrets of Success - WRTC 2000" - K3NA

* "Breaking the CQWW SSB & CW records: N5TJ/EA8BH" - N5TJ (remote)

* "Staying without sleep for 48 hours - a medical opinion" - OH2MM/EA8EA

Coffee pause, 30 min

Part 3 16:45 - 18:10

* "Prizes"(SRAL, WPX 2000 SSB, CCF Top Band Trophy, etc.)

* "QRZ West / North-West: N6RO/NR6O/N6O - Radio Oakley Contest Club, KC1XX - 'Voice of America', HC8N update, Quads of Quito!" - K6AW

* "Summa summarum" - OH6EI

The changes are possible - check this page for schedule updates!

19:00 ->

* DX/Contest dinner in Tampere Spa Hotel (Restaurant Arthur)
Price: 190 FIM - includes welcome drink, menu (hors d'oeuvres, dinner & coffee) + one glass of wine

Great climate!

Forget all thoughts of possible low mid-January temperatures in these northern latitudes. Instead, come to enjoy the mid-winter TROPIC in Finland! The January 2001 meeting will be held in a tropical environment in Tampere Spa Hotel, about 150 km North of Helsinki.

The meeting starts with an enjoyable "gettogether" on Friday evening. Saturday will be our "day of presentations" (all in English), and when Saturday evening arrives - it’s "party time"! (The evening menu and the prices can be found in the end of this message.) Sunday is more or less the day of getting back home, but we try to arrange e.g. some local sight-seeing tours for those with less tight time-schedules.

All the activities will take place in the Tampere Spa Hotel.

Click HERE for the map of Tampere Spa Hotel

ACCOMMODATION

1. Hotel Lapinkaari
2. We have reserved a "quota" of rooms at Hotel Lapinkaari, next door (about 150m) to the Tampere Spa Hotel. Hotel Lapinkaari is a course-hotel with quite decent and reasonably priced rooms. A single-room costs FIM 290,- per night, a double-room FIM 380,- per night (FIM 190,- per person/night). Breakfast *is* included!

   Please book your rooms directly from Hotel Lapinkaari with the reservation code "CCF" (Contest Club Finland) :

   Tel. +358-3-255 3554

   Fax +358-3-255 3566

   E-mail: [email protected]

   Internet: http://www.lapinkaari.com (Unfortunately the text on their www-pages is only in Finnish)

3. Tampere Spa Hotel

If you want something more special, you might consider the luxory apartments at the Spa Hotel. We have reserved a few 60-100 square meter suites for the CCF-meeting visitors. Each suite has 2 separate bedrooms, livingroom, complete kitchen, own sauna and/or jacuqqi.

The price for a suite is FIM 1520,- / night / 4 people. Extra bed costs FIM 180.- / night.

Prices include breakfast and free use of the spa. Bath ropes, bath towels and bath slippers, blow dryer, telephone, tv, video recorder, cd-radio player, iron & ironing board are available in every suite.

Possible cancellations should be done 7 days before arrival, otherwise the Spa Hotel has to charge the whole price.

The suites are available at 2 PM on the day of arrival. Check out before 12 AM on the day of departure.

Please book the suites directly from Tampere Spa Hotel with the reservation code "CCF" (Contest Club Finland) :

Tel. +358-3-259 7500 or +358-3-259 7661 (customer service - Ms. Piia Keränen)

Fax. +358-3-259 7400

E-mail: [email protected]

Internet: www.tampereenkylpyla.fi

GETTING TO the city of TAMPERE

The easiest way to reach Tampere from Europe and overseas is an airplane. There are five (5) daily SAS flights from Stockholm Sweden to Tampere on weekdays and vice versa. The special SAS code for the CCF-meeting is: FI 0109

Another easy way to reach Tampere is by train (2 hours from Helsinki via Riihimaki to Tampere). More info of timetables, tickets (group tickets) and prices can be found here: http://www.vr.fi/

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information please check CCF’s home page at http://ccf.contesting.com  

Some feedback and photos of the previous CCF-meetings can be found at  http://ccf.contesting.com/6th.htm 

More info of the city of Tampere can be found on web at http://www.tampere.fi 

For more information of the local arrangements (+ flights, timetables and accommodation) in Tampere, please contact mr Seppo Sisättö OH1VR (OH3MMM), e-mail: [email protected] , tel. +358-50-1372 (mobile)

Please also inform mr Pasi Luoma-aho OH2IW (OH6UM) of your coming (and of your travel plans) as soon as possible, e-mail: [email protected] , tel. +358-400-436543 (mobile).

73 & CU in Tampere, FINLAND on 19-21 January, 2001!

Contest Club Finland (CCF)

NOTE: If you happen to have some contest related stories or presentations that you would like to share with the audience, let us know! The agenda is still quite "dynamic". ;-)

PLEASE FORWARD THIS INFORMATION to your fellow contesters / DXers via e-mail, www-pages, packet, bulletins, newsletters, magazines, qsos, "eye-ball", etc.

CCF Contest / DX dinner 

Saturday January 20^th 2001 starting at 7 PM

at Restaurant Arthur - Tampere Spa Hotel

The dinner costs FIM 190,-
(including the welcome drink + one glass of wine)