{"id":58595,"date":"2023-12-30T07:48:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T11:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=58595"},"modified":"2023-12-29T07:56:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T11:56:23","slug":"mediumwave-dxer-logs-kfiz-from-arctic-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/mediumwave-dxer-logs-kfiz-from-arctic-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediumwave DXer logs KFIZ from Arctic Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ulis Fleming, who shares the following article from KFIZ via Twitter<\/a>. I love these articles where a mediumwave DXer blows the minds of a small AM radio station’s staff! <\/strong><\/p>\n

Finnish man hears KFIZ radio transmission on radio in Artic Circle<\/a><\/h1>\n

A man from Finland contacted KFIZ recently to let us know he was listening to our station IN Finland earlier this month. And while it doesn\u2019t sound like such a big deal since we do announce you can listen around the world on the \u201cTune In\u201d app, this person actually heard us on the AM spectrum of frequencies.<\/p>\n

Jari is a self described AM radio enthusiast in Finland that says he is passionate about listening to and identifying AM stations from around the world.<\/p>\n

In early December, Jari travelled about 750 miles from his home in southern Finland, by train and car, to an isolated area in Northern Finland, well into the Artic Circle, where he has a base station set up designed to pull in AM radio signals from around the world. Jari says conditions are ideal there because there is ample space for long antennas and little to no man-made electrical noise or interference.<\/p>\n

On December 4th at 6:00 Universal time, which would have been midnight local Fond du Lac time, Jari recorded a transmission on his receiver. Its very faint but it\u2019s our station\u2019s radio ID that we play often throughout the day that says \u201cNews Talk 1450, KFIZ Fond Du Lac \u2013 a Mountain Dog Media Station.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given how hard it is to hear, you can respect the fact that Jari now has transmissions confirmed from over 800 stations from North America.<\/p>\n

While generally AM radio waves only travel at most 100 miles from the transmitting antennas, with the right conditions, usually during the nighttime hours, AM radio waves can reflect off the ionosphere and propagate past the curvature of the earth, a phenomenon called \u201cskywave\u201d propagation.<\/p>\n

So from all of us here at KFIZ, if you are listening locally, on the tune in App, or isolated deep within the Artic Circle, we want to say thanks for listening.<\/p>\n

Click here to read at KFIZ.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ulis Fleming, who shares the following article from KFIZ via Twitter. I love these articles where a mediumwave DXer blows the minds of a small AM radio station’s staff! Finnish man hears KFIZ radio transmission on radio in Artic Circle A man from Finland contacted KFIZ recently to let […]<\/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":"","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":[373,5935,433,3],"tags":[400,10408,5820],"class_list":["post-58595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-dx","category-mediumwave","category-news","tag-finland","tag-kfiz","tag-mediumwave-dxing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-ff5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"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":58595,"position":0},"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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