OH8K, also OH9O and OH8AAS, (ex-OH8NPA) is a small, but the moust active meteor scatter Radio Amateur Club in the world. Our club is now active from Sotkamo, KP44HE. There is now 42m and 30m high towers for HF and 6m. The antenna system for 2m is now 2x16ele.

OH8K's antennas are:

28 MHz 2x6ele

24 MHz 6 ele

21 MHz 2x6ele

18 MHz 5 ele

14 MHz 2x5ele

10 MHz 3 ele

7 MHz 2x3ele full size

3,5 MHz 1/2 wave dipole

1,8 MHz 1/4 wave vertical made from the wire supporting the tower

50 MHz 2x10ele

144 MHz 2x16ele

QSL via OH8MSM, same address as OH8K. Our QSL POLICY is clear: QSL to ALL via BURO allways, QSL direct only with postage.

We have members all over the country and some from abroad. The VHF Group is quite active, and nowadays we like FSK or HSCW MS operation from semirare and rare grids from Eastern and Northern Finland. So far we have been in these grids via Meteor Scatter: JP90, KO09, KO19, KP02, KP11, KP12, KP13, KP14, KP16,KP17, KP18, KP22, KP23, KP28, KP33, KP34, KP37, KP43, KP44, KP45, KP47, KP48, KP51, KP52, KP53, KP54, KP55, KP57

and on cw/ssb KP01, KP03, KP20,

Next big MS-activities will be from Lapland, June and August 2005, including atleast KP27, others will be some of the following grids: KP08, KP09, KP26, KP36,KP29, KP39, KP49, KP19, KQ30, KQ40

You can see some photos of our peditions to rare or semirare grids in Finland and our antennas , so visit our HOMEPAGE

http://www.oh8k.org

The best way to help us to plan future peditions is to visit

http://www.tarkastaja.com/cgi-bin/grids or

OZ2M -site

and put your missing grids on MS (or TROPO) in Finland on these sites.

See you on FSK441 or HSCW MS up to 5000lpm

73 de OH8K VHF-GROUP: OH6JW, OH8MSM, OH6ZZ, OH6HFX, OH8QW