{"id":12562,"date":"2015-03-07T09:12:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T13:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12562"},"modified":"2015-03-07T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T13:12:03","slug":"medium-wave-dxer-johnny-bratveit-interviewed-by-oregon-public-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/medium-wave-dxer-johnny-bratveit-interviewed-by-oregon-public-broadcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Medium Wave DXer, Johnny Br\u00e5tveit, interviewed by Oregon Public Broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SX-99-Dial\"<\/a>Check out this excellent<\/em>\u00a0in-depth interview with medium wave DXer, Johnny Br\u00e5tveit, via\u00a0Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPD)<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“About a month ago, our station received a fascinating email. It came from a Norwegian man named Tore Johnny Braatveit. He wrote: \u201cI am one of those people who still really enjoys hunting for long-distance radio signals on the AM band. I am glad to tell you that I was able to pick up the AM signals of KOAC in arctic Norway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Braatveit sent us a recording of what he heard, and there\u2019s no mistaking our litany of OPB stations beamed more than four thousand miles away.<\/p>\n

Braatveit, who said we can call him TJ, says the serendipity of the search is what makes collecting radio signals appealing. \u201cIt\u2019s the same as for a hunter or a fisher,\u201d said Braatveit, \u201cThey know what they want, but they don\u2019t know what they will get.\u201d<\/p>\n

Braatveit has been DXing \u2013 a hobby to receive, record and identify faraway broadcasts \u2013 since the early 1980\u2019s. DX-ers use receivers along with computer software to collect the signals before reaching out to the stations with \u201creception reports\u201d to verify what they picked up, hence the email he sent us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Listen to the full interview via OPB’s SoundCloud<\/a>:<\/p>\n