Martti Karimies (MKA), Finland

Martti Karimies is 50 years old and works as General Manager at Hämeen Teräsrakenne Oy since 2001. Martti has been DXing since 1969. He lives in Hämeenlinna, some 100 kilometers north of Helsinki.

What little time he has for the hobby, most of his DXing nowadays takes place at home, using SRT CR91 and Telefunken E1800 professional class receivers and experimenting with different types of aerials like BOGs.

His first DXpedition to Lapland was already in 1986, after which he has mostly done DXpeditions to Lake Livo, located in East-Central Finland, for Asian AM stations.

Martti's best catches are several Japanese, Philippine and Thai stations heard in Europe for the first time, as well as KGUM 567 and KCNM 1080, also heard in Finland for the first time by him.

Martti has three children. You can e-mail Martti at .