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SYLRA meeting in Finland
The Old Town of Porvoo.
Next SYLRA meeting will be held in Finland 11.-14. August 2011.
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The meeting will take place in a small town called Porvoo (Borgå in Swedish). Porvoo is Finland's second oldest town. People come from all over the world to see the Porvoo Old Town. The town of Porvoo has about 48 000 inhabitants. It´s a bilingual town with about 33% of the inhabitants speaking Swedish as their mother tongue. Porvoo is just an hour’s drive from the capital of Finland Helsinki along the E18 highway. Many bus services operate every hour between Helsinki and Porvoo.
A long time ago the Porvoo Castle was built on the hill and the town was named Borgå ("castle river") in Swedish. The Porvoo parish and the church originated in the 13th century. Six towns were established in Finland during the Middle Ages. Some of them grew to be towns without any official order having been issued. This was the case with Porvoo, which got the town rights after Turku (Åbo) in the 14th century. The story tells that in 1346 Maunu Eerikinpoika (Magnus Eriksson), then the King of Sweden, visited Porvoo and granted the town rights there and then.
Welcome to Porvoo.
Links about Porvoo
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Flowers and old houses in Porvoo.
The program of the SYLRA meeting
Thursday 11th of August 2011
Friday 12th of August 2011
Saturday 13th of August 2011
The dinner will take place in Café Cabriole, which is located only 100 metres away from the Hotel Seurahovi. After the dinner we will hear an intresting lecture about some amateur radio matter by Marko Saarela, OH2LRD.
Links
Photos about Malmgård mansionSunday 14th of August 2011
A toy shop.
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Hotel Seurahovi is located in the centre of the town. It´s near the Old Town, shops and restaurants. It´s only some steps from the bus station to the hotel. There is also the marketplace just front of the hotel.
The homepages of Hotel Seurahovi in English
The room prices
Single room 80 euros/nightRoom prices include breakfast, wireless internet connection, access to Business Corner and free entrance to night club Seurahovi Night.
You will pay the room when you check out of the hotel.
If you don´t want to stay at the hotel, there are also other options where to stay. One of them is Porvoo Hostel. The hostel is located about 800 metres away from the Hotel Seurahovi. Please contact direct to the hostel, if you want to book a room.
The homepage of Porvoo Hostel (in English, Swedish and German)
If you travel in a caravan, there is a camping site about 2 kilometres from the city centre.
The homepage of Porvoo camping Kokonniemi in English
The homepage of Porvoo camping Kokonniemi in Swedish
Flowers at a street.
The fee for the meeting is 165 euros. It includes the Friday´s grill party, Saturday´s mansion tour, lunch and afternoon coffee during the tour, Saturday´s dinner and t-shirt. Please make your registration and pay the meeting fee before 30th of April 2011.
After the registration the payment details will be sent to you by email.
An alley.
Porvoo is located about 50 kilometres to east from the capital Helsinki. You can flight to Helsinki and when take a bus to Porvoo. You can also come from Stockholm, Sweden by boat to Helsinki and drive or take bus to Porvoo.
More instructions
Take Finnair City Bus, bus number 615 or taxi from Helsinki-Vantaa airport to the centre of Helsinki. Read more.
It takes about 30 minutes to travel from the airport to Helsinki by the Finnair bus. There is a bus stop outside of the Terminal 2 (platform 10) and outside of the Terminal 1 (platform 1). In the city centre the bus will arrive to platform 30 in Elielinaukio. It´s just in front of the central railway station. The fare is 6,20 euros. You will find the timetables and more information in English and in Swedish here (pdf).
The local bus number 615 is cheaper and slower. It takes about 35 minutes to travel from the airport to the city centre by this bus. There is a bus stop outside of the Terminal 2 (platform 21) and outside of the Terminal 1 (platform 2). In the city centre the bus will arrive to platform 5 in Rautatientori. It´s just in front of the central railway station. You will find the timetable here. (lait. 5 = platform 5, Lentoasema, T1 lait. 2 = the airport, Terminal 1, platform 2). The fare is 4 euros. The timetables is also available in Swedish.
From Finnair bus stop (Elielinaukio, green flag) walk to the bus station (black and white flag). Look at the map.
From local bus stop (Rautatientori, green flag) walk to the bus station (black and white flag). Look at the map.
As you notice, it´s not a long walk.
Here is a photo about the bus station. When you have walked into the building, you will soon see the electrical timetables on your right side. After the timetables turn to right. You will see a shop called Anttila in front of you. Turn to right and you will find the escalators to the platforms. Go down. The busses to Porvoo will leave there.
The timetables of the Porvoo busses. The timetables is also available in Swedish.
It takes about 50 minutes from Helsinki to Porvoo by a fast bus. Notice that the destination of a bus can be something else than Porvoo, but all the busses will drive via the Porvoo bus station, which is located just in front of your hotel (Hotel Seurahovi).
When you arrive to the Porvoo bus station, you will see your hotel. It´s just some steps away.
A toy shop window.
We try to organize a possibility to operate from the hotel. The callsign is OH2YLS. You won´t need a licence in Finland because you can operate as a ”second operator”. It means that you can operate when there is the station´s owner who is watching what you are doing.
If you have the CEPT licence, you can also take your own radio with you (a handheld radio for example) and use a callsign, which is OH/your own callsign, OH/G0AAAA for example.
More information about CEPT radio amateur licence (pdf)
The frequency of local repeater in Porvoo is 434.875 MHz. Input frequency of the repeater is 1,6 MHz below the output frequency.
An alley in Porvoo.
It´s possible to take part in a pedition after the SYLRA meeting. The pedition will start at the Sunday afternoon on 14th of August 2011. It´s nowadays very popular to go to the ”DX pedition” to the national parks in Finland. So, come and enjoy your staying in a cottage middle of Finnish forest.
The pedition will take place in Liesjärvi national park, which is located about 95 kilometres to northwest from Helsinki. The pedition will end on Tuesday 16th of August 2011.
Ships at Porvoo river.
If you have something to ask, please contact me. I have a vacation now. So, I will read a mailbox gagra (@) luukku dot com. From the 8th of August to the 10th of August I will be in the office again and read the mailbox oh2hsj (@) sral dot fi.
A park in Porvoo.