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My next trip was to Karkku, which is a former Finnish county now a part of Sastamala county. We drove about one hour to Lake Ritajärvi protected area. This place is quite large and there are several options where to operate. We went to the parking place near Lake Alinen Ritajärvi (=lower Ritajärvi), from where a marked path to the lake started. Not an easy task with all my QRO equipment as it was about 600 meters walk. The place itself was nice, there was a fireplace, a building to arrange the meetings, a toilet and the wooden benches and tables. So I could build very comfortable place to operate. And I could set up the antenna also nicely just few meters from the lake. Before I started to operate Saku OH2NOS came to visit. Saku is the prominent Finnish WWFF-activator and he is not living too far from this place. We chatted a while and same time I build station up. There were also lots of other visitors in the site, this lake seems to be extremely popular among the hikers.

Operation went smoothly. This is the 2nd activation of this reference. Very good pile up in the start on 40m CW. I worked 36 qsos in 17 minutes before moving to 40m SSB which produced nice pileup as well. From here 20m SSB was also in a good shape. Perhaps the reason was that I started operation around 10Z, later than normally. Total qso count was 160 with 132 unique hunters. Operation time was 2 hours and 10 minutes.

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