What is this place KP14QA?
The place which will be our QTH, is called Vattajanniemi (impossible to translate to english).
It is about 12km long sand beach, which is said to be the longest one in North Europe. The biggest part
of this wonderful beach belongs to finnish military forces, and they use it as their exercise
place.
Luckily this small part of Vattajanniemi, the area of Lahdenkrooppi (also impossible to translate...) is used by
some civils who have cottages there. However, when a big military exercise is in process, it is not allowed to go
that area! That happens also 19th november when they begin to shoot with air-defence cannons, just after our
x-pedition!
The Gulf of Bothnia rounds this cape and gives a very good takeoff to south, west and north direction, and takeoff
to east is not bad too. When we worked some 50MHz activity contests from this QTH, we were asked how our signal was
so good via aurora almost every time when there was at least a little northern lights. The takeoff to north is so
good with only water and air...
There is no electricity in the cape, so we have to take it from 2,2kW generator. However, when there is no electric
lines and other possible gadgets running in other gottages, there is no radio interference. Very quiet place.
It's sand and water everywhere
A view to north
A view to south