This is Risto Kotalampi, W6RK. I have been ham radio operator since 1983. My first call was OH6EE and I was active in Finland until about 1987 when I moved to Tampere. I had less and less time to the hobby when other activities took over.

I immigrated to U.S.A. in 1996 and finally, after 7 years of living here I decided to take the exam. My first call was AE6PW and when W6RK became available I applied for it immediately. .. and successfully got my vanity call.

I have updated my main page to use Wordpress. While there’s not much new to find from here, I’m eventually planning to add more blogging, links and other content here. Stay tuned!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

I created some short and long path predictions from Northern California. Please see short path and long path predictions. Warning! These include a lot of pictures so you would want to have broadband.