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My 3rd OHFF was probably also the third closest reference to my home. Pinkjärvi (“Pink Lake”) is some 30 minutes drive from Pori city. My radio club activated Pinkjärvi as the new one in August as OH1AB/p (see video). They made a trip to the small island at the lake but I activated OHFF-0237 from so called “double lean-to” called Vuotava. It is possible to drive to park place which is only 100 meters from the lean-to. Lean-to itself is about 20 meters from lakeshore.

What made this operation interesting was that big storm called “Mauri 2018” hit the west coast of Finland on Saturday morning. Fortunately it didn’t make much harm to my operation as my QTH was in the middle of the forest trees. Lean-to had very nice wooden table and bench, so it was the most comfortable OHFF-QTH so far. I put my antenna up between forest and lean-to. The place was not the best possible but as I have quite short coax cable, erecting antenna to lake shore what not an option. Europe is on the forest side so take-off was not the best.

Band hopper antenna

I started again 40m CW, then moved to SSB, then 30m CW, 20m CW and SSB then back to 40m. I also tuned my 40m dipole to 80m and worked some stations on 80m CW and SSB as well. So I will use 80m also in the future with this antenna. Signals from Europe on 40m and 30m were strong. Again I couldn’t get much going on 20m. Total qso count was 117 qsos in 2 hours. Not too bad for this not so optimum site.

OH1NOA

Vuotava double lean-to

Now after 3 references I have 358 qsos in total. It is quite funny that qso counts have been 122-119-117, almost identical.