Time For My Summer Trip!

[Asick]

You're not too far away from Finland, are you, Asick?

I'm far enough. It's about 200 km to the Finnish border. It usually takes up to 3 hours to get to the border from here and another hour to pass it and to get to one of the nearest Finnish towns (Lappeenranta, Imatra, Kotka etc.)

Are you close enough to pick up Finnish networks?

Sure I'm too far. They say it's possible sometimes to find the Finnish networks near St.Petersburg at the Finnish gulf coast (during extra long distance UHF spreading periods), but it's surely impossible to register on these networks. It's not even easy to use foreign networks in a few kilometers from that border, I've heard they mutually limit transmitting power and avoid any antenna orientation toward foreign territories at the Russian-Finnish border. May be it's just because of the relief (hills and forests), though.