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Finally I passed the Finnish Ham Exam and got a full license! Now when I travel in Finland I can work on Air as OH7BG! I also joined SRAL (Finnish Amateur Radio League). Of course I continue operating as R1BIG in Russia.

With one mouse click you have hundreds of QSO phrases (text+audio)! My goal is 15 languages! We can help together to improve the communications between different countries! If you want to add your language please contact me. Click on the news heading.

This Amateur Radio Day was unusual for me. The main Russian TV Channel #1 came to my portable position to shoot an Amateur Radio story! It was shown on television the next day!

After successfully passing the exam to the higher class my Amateur Radio license was upgraded and I had to change my original Novice Call UB1AOA. I hope I will have the Callsign R1BIG for life!

FOR ALL my QSOs as UB1AOA/p during 15 portable activities in Summer 2020 I send these special QSL cards via Bureau. You can see the reverse side by clicking on the picture!

YL Raisa & Team Mini DXpedition to Shepelevsky Lighthouse (ERU-007) took place on 22 August 2020. Operators: UB1AOA Raisa, R1MP Mikhail, RA1AMO Alexey, UA1AJD Alex. Click the news to read more

This was a fantastic trip to IOTA EU-117, I was QRV on 14.188 MHz with a parallel live stream to Youtube! My smartphone battery ran out after 1.5 hours, and my "own charge" ;-) lasted for more SSB working there.

I operated as Single Operator Low Power. I was happy to finish with such a good official result. I could have achieved more points if the station from Greenland could have received my call during the last hour of the contest

What a nice time we had in the Czech Republic! QRV as OL88YL with permanent Pile Ups! (Altogether we made 8418 QSO’s) This was a very creative YL’s only team, all of us loving our Ham Radio Hobby!