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Found a YouTube video of someone receiving AM stations from Hawaii in Finland

Mika and his friends have a nice DX location there...REAL nice!
The CE of KNRS-570, here in SLC, got a report from him last August. Sounded really good. As soon as he played it, I knew who it was from.
Maybe I'll have to update my bucket list.
 
So I found there was already plenty of wire out in the garage and I set the antenna up just as described in the video with the end near me grounded out in a wooded area away from the house.

It greatly amplified the annoying background buzzing interference I've mentioned before more so than the Honolulu stations I wanted to bring in stronger, making them unlistenable behind the interference.

The loud buzzing was on every frequency of the AM band.

I don't understand this.

I'm pretty much in the middle of nowhere and the background interference is a lot worse than it was in my apartment building in Tampa, a place surrounded by all kinds interference sources.
 
I think I may have found out why I'm getting such strong background interference so far from the apparent source.

I was curious what the ground conductivity is for my specific area and I found this chart comparing different types of rocks.

Most igneous rocks have very little conductivity at all but there are some exceptions such as 'mafic' rock which I found out comes from Mauna Loa.

All the lava rock where I am is a flow from Mauna Loa that took place roughly 500 years ago.

See how highly conductive mafic rock is compared to other common rock.

https://em.geosci.xyz/content/physi...ductivity/electrical_conductivity_values.html
 
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