{"id":1128,"date":"2011-05-25T06:01:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T11:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2011-05-25T06:01:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T11:01:06","slug":"dxpedition-in-lapland-finnish-dxers-offer-their-dx-cabin-for-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/dxpedition-in-lapland-finnish-dxers-offer-their-dx-cabin-for-rent\/","title":{"rendered":"DXpedition in Lapland? Finnish DXers offer their DX cabin for rent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1129\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lem291_saariselka_cabin_with_trees_300x199.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1129\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1129 \" title=\"lem291_saariselka_cabin_with_trees_300x199\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lem291_saariselka_cabin_with_trees_300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Saariselk\u00e4 courtesy of DXing.info<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you have the time and money, <a title=\"DXpedition site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dxing.info\/dxpeditions\/aihkiniemi_dx_cabin_for_rent.dx\" target=\"_blank\">this DXpedition site<\/a>&#8211;owned and operated by several hard-core Finnish DXers&#8211;could offer up a week of exotic AM and Shortwave DXing. Rent for one week is very reasonable at 500 Euros, but travel expenses (especially if visiting from outside of Europe) can be pricey, so do your flight research well in advance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dxing.info\/about\/dxers\/mtm.dx\">Mika M\u00e4kel\u00e4inen<\/a> does a great job writing up what a week could offer you at their little cabin. <em>Well worth the read<\/em> even if you don&#8217;t intend to visit this Arctic listening post.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DXpedition info\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dxing.info\/dxpeditions\/aihkiniemi_dx_cabin_for_rent.dx\" target=\"_blank\">Click hear to read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have the time and money, this DXpedition site&#8211;owned and operated by several hard-core Finnish DXers&#8211;could offer up a week of exotic AM and Shortwave DXing. Rent for one week is very reasonable at 500 Euros, but travel expenses (especially if visiting from outside of Europe) can be pricey, so do your flight research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[399],"tags":[4098,400],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dxpeditions","tag-dxpeditions","tag-finland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-ic","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46547,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/video-a-virtual-tour-of-the-aihkiniemi-dxing-base-in-lapland-northern-finland\/","url_meta":{"origin":1128,"position":0},"title":"Video: A virtual tour of the Aihkiniemi DXing base in Lapland, northern Finland","author":"Thomas","date":"November 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post Contributor, Christoph Ratzer, who recently shared the following video tour by Mika M\u00e4kel\u00e4inen. 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