{"id":8099,"date":"2013-12-03T08:12:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T12:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8099"},"modified":"2013-12-03T08:12:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T12:12:25","slug":"arctic-dxing-covered-in-the-chinese-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/arctic-dxing-covered-in-the-chinese-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Arctic DXing covered in the Chinese press"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo of Saariselk\u00e4 courtesy of DXing.info<\/p><\/div>\n

A few years ago\u00a0we mentioned\u00a0Mika Makelainen<\/a>\u00a0and Jim\u00a0Solatie, who make a DXing pilgrimage each year to the most northern region of Finland for two weeks of DXing bliss.<\/p>\n

The small cabin is very remote, but connected to 14 wire antennas and contains all of the necessities one needs for serious, long-haul DXing. Indeed, they even rent their cabin to other DXers.<\/p>\n

I was happy to see Mika and Jim’s annual DX trip recently mentioned in the\u00a0Xinhua News<\/a>.\u00a0Check out Hunting for radio signals near Arctic Ocean<\/a><\/em>, an article by reporters Li Jizhi and Zhang Xuan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few years ago\u00a0we mentioned\u00a0Mika Makelainen\u00a0and Jim\u00a0Solatie, who make a DXing pilgrimage each year to the most northern region of Finland for two weeks of DXing bliss. The small cabin is very remote, but connected to 14 wire antennas and contains all of the necessities one needs for serious, long-haul DXing. Indeed, they even rent […]<\/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":[8,399,433,3,43],"tags":[4098,400,2363,2362],"class_list":["post-8099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-dxpeditions","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dxpeditions","tag-finland","tag-jim-solatie","tag-mika-makelainen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-26D","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":8099,"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. 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