Adding to the success of the previous CU2A location, a lot of effort has been put into building a new radio site in Ribeira Grande,
the second largest city in the Azores, located on the north coast of Sao Miguel Island. The new location also pushed the Azores
team to new heights, making their services available to their immediate community.

On October 4, 2008 Mr. Ricardo José Moniz da Silva, the Mayor of the City of Ribeira Grande, paid a visit to the new location and made the
very first radio contact at CU2A/CU2X. He spoke with Mr. Avelino Bettencourtt, CU2DE, another Azores operator in the remote village of Ribeira Quente.

The significance of this radio contact was that Mr Bettencourtt's amateur radio station offered the only means of communication from his village
when the area was hit by heavy rains, causing a landfall and destroying many houses in his part of the island and isolating the entire area from the rest of the island.

The new CU2A site will be fully set up for operation in any emergency situation, whether inter-island or over the whole of Azores Islands.

The CU2X radio location is manned by the Azores-Finland Friendship Consortium, and it is activated frequently in conjunction with Amateur Radio special events and radio competitions.

The group behind the Azores-Finland Friendship Consortium consists of:

Fernando Tavares, CU2BV, Finnish Honorary Consul to the Azores; Jose Melo, CU2CE and Francisco Gil, CU2DX and from Finland, Martti Laine, OH2BH,
Toni Linden, OH2UA and Juha Hulkko, OH8NC.

The station is part of the Arcala Extremes radio network.

QSL via OH2BH