{"id":23310,"date":"2017-01-12T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=23310"},"modified":"2017-01-12T10:30:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T14:30:53","slug":"hello-finland-this-is-vancouver-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/hello-finland-this-is-vancouver-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hello Finland, this is Vancouver calling”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, William Lee, who shares the following story from the CBC:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hello, Finland, this is Vancouver calling: radio fans listen to CBC from 6,700 km away<\/h3>\n

When people in other parts of the world tune in to CBC Radio in Vancouver, they usually do it through our app, or online or through Sirius XM.<\/p>\n

But some people in Finland recently picked up Vancouver’s CBC broadcast \u2014 the broadcast heard locally at 690 AM and 88.1 FM \u2014 using an elaborate antenna system roughly 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle in Lapland, Finland.<\/p>\n

“It’s a few [radio hobbyists] from around Finland who have a very nice place up in the north where there’s not much neighbours which means not much interference,” Patrik Willfor, one of the listeners, told On The Coast host Stephen Quinn. “It’s like a silent band there, so even the weakest signals come through.”<\/p>\n

The practice is called DXing, and Willfor says he’s been at it for about 25 years since a friend told him that’s what their fathers used to do when they were young.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article on CBC British Columbia’s\u00a0website.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Post<\/em> readers<\/strong>: Is it just me? Or do you, too, get a kick out of it when the press gets a glimpse into the seemingly-anachronistic, but still-relevant-and-rocking world of radio–?<\/p>\n

Note that you can also listen to the audio interview with Patrik via the embedded CBC player below:<\/p>\n