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Polar Day/Nights

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MarioMania

Like Towns like Svalbard in the North

I know nights are 24/7 there in the Winters

Good for AM DXing

I wonder if there's peopl that DX AM close to the Artic

Would be interesting DXing FM in the Summer
 
I've wondered this too over the years.
You have to be really far north for 24-hour sunlight or darkness, and even then it's not always total light or dark, but I'd love to hear from anyone who has had that experience. Visiting that far north for either is on my bucket list.
 
There was an Arctic KiwiSDR on the northern coast of Norway for a couple of years - at midday European time in winter, it was still dark there, and it received strong AM reception from KBRW in Alaska in particular, but also from as far away as Adelaide, Australia. The SDR used to disappear in the summer as it wasn't of any use, but it unfortunately didn't make a return this winter.
 
In Svalbard, they won't see the first official sunrise of 2025 for 2 more weeks. :oops:

The population of these polar regions is quite small. Svalbard has ~2500 residents in an area the size of West Virginia. Roughly 0.2% of Canadians live north of the Arctic Circle. Even among the hearty souls who live in Alaska, around 96% live south of the Arctic Circle.

But, if you're some place like northern Norway, there won't be many local broadcasts, so almost anything you try to tune is DX.

Right now I've got a Averoy, Norway SDR tuned on 1368kHz, airing oldies from Douglas, Isle of Man, a path of ~800 miles. It's one of the strongest signals on the waterfall. A couple of the other strong signals were from the BBC on 693 (BBC 5 Live) and 810 (BBC Scotland). This particular SDR isn't optimized with a MW antenna, so an optimized rig should do better.
 
Miss Tuned said:
There was an Arctic KiwiSDR on the northern coast of Norway for a couple of years - at midday European time in winter, it was still dark there, and it received strong AM reception from KBRW in Alaska in particular, but also from as far away as Adelaide, Australia. The SDR used to disappear in the summer as it wasn't of any use, but it unfortunately didn't make a return this winter.
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That was a tremendous site and system. Amazed to hear local 5 kW stations six miles from me half a world away.
 
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