{"id":16508,"date":"2016-01-01T08:48:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T12:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=16508"},"modified":"2016-01-01T08:48:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T12:48:36","slug":"norway-dxer-tunes-into-cbc-saskatchewan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/norway-dxer-tunes-into-cbc-saskatchewan\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway DXer tunes into CBC Saskatchewan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SX-99-Dial-Nar\"<\/p>\n

Many thanks to my pal, Sheldon Harvey (of the International Radio Report<\/a> and CIDX<\/a>), for sharing this news item\u00a0from the CBC News in Saskatchewan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Ole Forr is a 58-year-old radio lover who tunes into radio stations across the world for fun<\/strong><\/p>\n

A dairy farmer in Norway went to great lengths to tune into CBC Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

Sure, The Morning Edition with Sheila Coles is the No. 1 morning radio show in Saskatchewan. But few people could have expected it to reach a group of listeners more than 5,800 kilometres away\u2014 and not through the internet.<\/p>\n

Ole Forr doesn’t let thousands of kilometres and the Atlantic Ocean get in the way of his hobby.<\/p>\n

[…]Every late October, Forr and three friends visit a remote location in northern Norway, where he said they spend up to two weeks listening to radio broadcasts using some very long-range receiving antennas.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 27, 2015, Forr tuned into CBK 540 AM from And\u00f8ya, Norway.<\/p>\n

“It’s very remote, so there is no man-made noise,” Forr said. “From October to March, it’s very dark up there so to have dark between the transmitter and the receiver.”<\/p>\n

Forr contacted CBC Saskatchewan to verify his recording, providing MP3 evidence of the broadcast.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article, along with audio, on the CBC News Saskatchewan website.<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks again, Sheldon! I love stories like this that give our radio hobby a little time in the limelight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to my pal, Sheldon Harvey (of the International Radio Report and CIDX), for sharing this news item\u00a0from the CBC News in Saskatchewan: Ole Forr is a 58-year-old radio lover who tunes into radio stations across the world for fun A dairy farmer in Norway went to great lengths to tune into CBC Saskatchewan. […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,433,3],"tags":[29,145,1031,4099,3678,4592],"class_list":["post-16508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-mediumwave","category-news","tag-cbc","tag-dx","tag-dxing","tag-mediumwave","tag-mw-dx","tag-ole-forr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4ig","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23310,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/hello-finland-this-is-vancouver-calling\/","url_meta":{"origin":16508,"position":0},"title":"“Hello Finland, this is Vancouver calling”","author":"Thomas","date":"January 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, William Lee, who shares the following story from the CBC: Hello, Finland, this is Vancouver calling: radio fans listen to CBC from 6,700 km away When people in other parts of the world tune in to CBC Radio in Vancouver, they usually do it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Globe-Finland-DX-Canada-Greenland-Arctic.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Globe-Finland-DX-Canada-Greenland-Arctic.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Globe-Finland-DX-Canada-Greenland-Arctic.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Globe-Finland-DX-Canada-Greenland-Arctic.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":47080,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/cbc-yukon-features-finnish-dxer-who-logged-their-station-from-7000-km-away\/","url_meta":{"origin":16508,"position":1},"title":"CBC Yukon features Finnish DXer who logged their station from 7,000 km away","author":"Thomas","date":"December 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: CBC Yukon) From Yukon to Finland: CBC's radio signal heard from afar Host Elyn Jones heard saying 'this is Yukon Morning,' about 7,000 kilometres away A keen listener has managed to hear CBC Yukon's radio broadcast from about 7,000 kilometres away. 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