{"id":55155,"date":"2022-12-24T15:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T19:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=55155"},"modified":"2022-12-24T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T15:56:23","slug":"video-bbc-global-news-podcast-features-aihkiniemi-dxing-cabin-in-lapland-northern-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/video-bbc-global-news-podcast-features-aihkiniemi-dxing-cabin-in-lapland-northern-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: BBC Global News Podcast features Aihkiniemi DXing cabin in Lapland, northern Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absolutely brilliant to see Mika M\u00e4kel\u00e4inen giving a tour of the Aihkiniemi DXing cabin in Lapland this morning via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0drc52k\">the BBC World Service website<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0drc52k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC World Service<\/a>)<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0drc52k\/player\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The radio man listening to the world from the Arctic<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mika M\u00e4kel\u00e4inen is a radio enthusiast who listens to stations from around the world in a remote corner of Lapland, 400km north of the Arctic Circle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">He and a group of fellow hobbyists have set up 14 wire antennas in the forest to capture weak signals from low-power stations, thousands of kilometres away. Mika explains why Lapland is a perfect place for listening to distant radio stations and how his hobby continues to inspire him 40 years after first discovering it as a child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Video by Erika Benke<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0drc52k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on the BBC website.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;d like to see a proper detailed tour of the cabin (with DXers in mind), <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/video-a-virtual-tour-of-the-aihkiniemi-dxing-base-in-lapland-northern-finland\/?swcfpc=1\">check out this video Mika made a couple years ago<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolutely brilliant to see Mika M\u00e4kel\u00e4inen giving a tour of the Aihkiniemi DXing cabin in Lapland this morning via the BBC World Service website: (Source: BBC World Service) The radio man listening to the world from the Arctic Mika M\u00e4kel\u00e4inen is a radio enthusiast who listens to stations from around the world in a remote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"Video: BBC Global News Podcast features Aihkiniemi DXing cabin in Lapland, northern Finland #DXing #shortwave #SWL","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":[433,3,43],"tags":[8980,327,400,6716,5820,2362],"class_list":["post-55155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-aihkiniemi","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-finland","tag-lapland","tag-mediumwave-dxing","tag-mika-makelainen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-elB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46547,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/video-a-virtual-tour-of-the-aihkiniemi-dxing-base-in-lapland-northern-finland\/","url_meta":{"origin":55155,"position":0},"title":"Video: A virtual tour of the Aihkiniemi DXing base in Lapland, northern Finland","author":"Thomas","date":"November 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post Contributor, Christoph Ratzer, who recently shared the following video tour by Mika M\u00e4kel\u00e4inen. Mika desxribes this video on YouTube: Join me on a virtual tour of the Aihkiniemi DXing base in Lapland, in northern Finland. This is a nonscripted five-cent tour looking at what the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DX&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DX","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/dx\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finland-Lapland-DXing-Cabin.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finland-Lapland-DXing-Cabin.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finland-Lapland-DXing-Cabin.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finland-Lapland-DXing-Cabin.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finland-Lapland-DXing-Cabin.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1128,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/dxpedition-in-lapland-finnish-dxers-offer-their-dx-cabin-for-rent\/","url_meta":{"origin":55155,"position":1},"title":"DXpedition in Lapland? 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I love these articles where a mediumwave DXer blows the minds of a small AM radio station's staff! 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