Mika Mäkeläinen,
Finland
Editor of DXing.info
Mäkeläinen is a Finnish
broadcast journalist, currently working as foreign
news reporter for the Finnish
Broadcasting Company (YLE), based in Helsinki,
Finland. In 2006-2009 Mäkeläinen was working
as the U.S. bureau chief and chief correspondent
for YLE in Washington DC. Prior to that, he worked
as foreign news reporter for YLE and reported also
for CNN (mostly for the CNN World
Report), which earned him four CNN prizes in
1997-2003. Mäkeläinen graduated from the
University of Helsinki. He has also done postgraduate
work in political science as a Knight
Fellow at Stanford University in the United
States and new media design at the University of
Arts and Design in Finland.
Mäkeläinen regularly
reports from hot spots around the world. His assignments
have taken him to many developing nations, including
Brazil (picture above) and Peru; an account
of the adventure from a DXing perspective is posted
on this website.
Mäkeläinen's expertise
both in foreign news and in shortwave broadcasting
has made him an often-quoted expert in international
radio and radio propaganda. If you're a fellow journalist,
this website can sometimes give you interesting
news from the world of radio, check out info
for journalists.
Mäkeläinen has been
DXing since 1980. His latest QSL count in February
2006 showed 206 verified countries and 2842 verified
broadcasting stations (MW, SW).
Mäkeläinen lives in
Vantaa, part of the interference-infested capital
region, which unfortunately is not the ideal place
for serious AM DXing. This is why Mäkeläinen
annually visits Lemmenjoki
in the Finnish Lapland for DXpeditions (see the
latest DXpedition report here).
Although it can get cold (-35 degrees when the picture
was taken), it is worth the trouble. All his DXpedition
reports since 1990 are posted in the DXpeditions
section of this site. In Nordic logs and statistics
he is identified using the abbreviation MTM.
Aside from being an active DXer,
Mäkeläinen has used his experience in
www concept design to promote DXing on the Internet.
His website Freeze! DXing Arctic Style was
launched in 1998 and later rebranded as DXing.info.
You can reach Mäkeläinen by emailing him
at: mika @ makelainen.com.
  
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