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\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Markku for sharing this Yle News story<\/a> about an FM propagation opening along Finland\u2019s eastern border. On a warm July morning, residents of Lappeenranta suddenly found their radios picking up multiple Russian FM stations\u2014some from as far away as St. Petersburg, over 200 km away!<\/p>\n

The cause? A temperature inversion and high-pressure system.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Markku for sharing this Yle News story about an FM propagation opening along Finland\u2019s eastern border. On a warm July morning, residents of Lappeenranta suddenly found their radios picking up multiple Russian FM stations\u2014some from as far away as St. Petersburg, over 200 km away! The cause? A temperature […]<\/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":[3781,3],"tags":[400,2918,8941],"class_list":["post-63419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news","tag-finland","tag-fm-dx","tag-markku-koskinen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-guT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49378,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/markku-recommends-the-gp-5-desk-pod-gen-3-for-the-pl-368\/","url_meta":{"origin":63419,"position":0},"title":"Markku recommends the GP-5 Desk Pod (Gen 3) for the PL-368","author":"Thomas","date":"June 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Markku (VA3MK), who writes: I just received this stand today, works and fits well with my orange Tecsun PL-368. 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