Ari Kilponen (ARK),
Finland
Ari Kilponen is living at Simo,
a small village on the southern border of Finnish
Lapland. He is owner of a company specialized in
IT consulting, support and installations. Besides
that Ari is studying public law at the University
of Lapland.
DXing has been Ari's main hobby since 1975 and he
has verifications from 154 countries and over 700
stations. North and Central America as well as the
Pacific are his main DX targets. And he is also
the
editor of Oceania QSL column of the Radiomaailma
magazine.
Ari is regular visitor of DXpedition
sites deep in the Lapland: he has been listening
there almost every winter since 1984. At home Ari
is hunting DX stations with pretty good antenna
facilities: four beverage antennas between 500 and
1000 meters beamed to North America and one antenna
of 320 meters beamed to Asia/the Pacific.
Ari's e-mail address is
 
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