40 YEARS OF CONTESTING AT OH2BH
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Martti Laine
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September 20, 2001
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THOSE 40 YEARS OF CONTESTING AT OH2BH & OH0B
Yes indeed, it was September 1961 when station OH2BH participated in his
first amateur radio contest at the tender age of 15.
Remembering these great years of contesting fun and honoring this special
occasion fourty years later, the station OH2BH will be activated in the
Scandinavian Activity Contest (SSB) by Toni Linden, OH2JTE at his good age
of 21.� Toni was licensed in 1996 and is a student of the Finnish Military
Academy and also vice-president of Contest Club Finland (CCF)--the
organization behind next year's WRTC2002.
He will be seeking his first SSB all-band honors among his seasoned
countrymen and fellow contesters.
OH2BH will be on all bands, 80 thru 10 meters, using Array Solutions SO2R
automation and power splitting, large beam arrays and two Mk V Yaesu
1000MP and Acom 2000A stations.
And somewhere in there you will catch the Old Man himself--Martti, OH2BH
will be operating the Aland Island site as OH0B, also on all bands.
Why don't you drop by and say hello to these two--look at their serial
numbers and enjoy the fun of amateur radio contesting at its very best.
Saturday 12UTC thru Sunday 12 UTC.
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Anonymous post on September 21, 2001
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Well,
Same story every year. The only contester in SAC that do not need buy his QSOs, advertise
his existens in all available media.
Bottles of wine in CQ WW, SAC QSO Party (OH0 vs OH2), etc. etc.
I thought Martti was more intelligent to promote the contest SAC than promote himself and
his formula one drivers. This "self-spotting" is ridicules and sad.
I feel sad for this new young fellow in Marttis F1 team, that there obvious are doubts that
his skills are enough to not keep the callsign OH2BH on top. Some "extra" assurance by posts
on Contesting.com was needed.
Why post as Anonymous?
Mr Laine could easily declare a Fatwa or a Jihad against you istead of using his power for
goodwill and fair play...
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by CT3EE on September 22, 2001
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Great Man, Great figure. Gongratulations Mr Laine for the 40 years contesting. For me it was an example the years with CT3BZ/BH. Hope to meet you soon in CT3, to remember the nice lunch in 1988 in Funchal with CT3BX and CT3FN.
Thanks for all your efforts since then.
Luis
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by s5m on September 23, 2001
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Worked OH2BH in SAC CW but no luck on SSB so far!
GH OM & CU OH WRTC de Mario, S56A, N1YU
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by wx3b on September 23, 2001
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Hello "Old Man" Martti -
I Can't believe you've been contesting for 40+ years - that's amazing. Congratluations. I did have the pleasure of working your 21 year old contester on 40 meters - he was doing a great job handling a pretty good stateside pileup.
I've enjoyed our many QSOs both from DXpedition locations and rag chews when you're home - you keep up the good work, Martti. Looking forward to working you on most bands during CQWW...
73,
Jim Nitzberg WX3B
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by k3uoc on September 28, 2001
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This posting can't be for real. Can it? I have received similar appeals from this individual before. "Please work me. . ." "Please work my disciples. . ." and so forth. Blatent. Shameless. Pathetic. Tell me he doesn't actually do this kind of spamming anymore.
Mike
K3UOC
ex-7Z5OO
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by HA5PP on October 3, 2001
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Good luck Martti! What next? EA8BH M/S worldrecords in CQWWs this year...?? Go for it! 73 de Zoli, HA5PP
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by oh1vr on October 7, 2001
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Dear Om's,
I have sent the following message to several
well known hams:
Dear Mr. Chairman,
Most of the active radioamateurs are interested in DXing and/or Contesting. On the
top level there are, in both DXing and Contesting, phenomena which do not use
fair play rules. E.g. using illegal power, using cellular phones for calling
multipliers, using certificates, t-shirts, vine bottles, special reports to them who
will work 'me' on six bands etc., two simultaneous signals in single op. class, clusters, friends help... etc. There are plenty of examples.
Proving of the usage of unproper means is always difficult but it is worth of trying. I do wonder why the discussion concerning moral matters in Contesting and DXing is almost nonexistent.
In DXing there are groups who are fighting with others: who is first here and there. Fair comptetition is OK but how about stealing 'competitors' DX-pedition? That happened to
XY1HT and it is also widely known that something like that happened in North-Korea etc.
Somebody has done the basic work and some others are stealing it.
Sometimes, like in Myanmar, using ARRL staff as a partner (as we know ARRL
is governing the acceptance of DX-peditions).. It is a dirty game and a dark side
of DXing. Regular amateur radio operator is not interested in what has happened behind the scene - he just wants to have a new call in his logbook.
It is short term thinking of national leagues to allow this to happen. The future of
ham radio is depending of our good relations with the national/international
(like ITU) authorities. We are pursuading authorities to give us
licenses, special callsigns, more bands, more power etc. As many
competiting groups are approaching them with different competing arguments,
things have come complicated. Especially as arguments are against the ones
of the competing group. And this happens a lot.
At least 95 % of DX-peditions do not use faul methods but the 'hottest' are
not always organized by fair play rules. The question is: what is our attitude
towards this dark side?
Best regards,
OH1VR
Seppo Sisatto, PhD
Ojakatu 3 A 18
33100 Tampere
FINLAND
Tel. +358-50-1372, E-mail: [email protected]
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Who is this Mr. Seppo guy?
Looks like someone has stolen his toys ...
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by va3wlc on December 22, 2008
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I met Oh2bh on the air from our club room at the red cross using the call ve3rcl club call and I had a wonderful chance on talk to oh2bh for 30 minutes on 20m he is a gentlemen of gentlemen on the air thank for the contact
wesley creek
va3wlc
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