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Norway In Alaska!

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

AM DX LOG: NRK 1485khz Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway. 1KW non directional at 2675 miles from my McGrath, Alaska. Heard just before 0500UTC Fri. Oct 13th with John Mayers "Paper Dog" with a relay of a local program form NRK Toms then about 0507UTC with NRK P1 and "Lets Dance" by David Bowie. Pretty darn good signal when not swallowed up by splatter from 1480.

The picture is the 1485 tower site send to me by Havard Wien, head of radio engineering for NRK when I reported reception a year ago.

Thanks to help from DXer OJS in figuring out why my 1485 before 0500UTC didnt match the stream a friend was listening to for me.

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Nicely done Paul. The solar conditions have died down just slightly. Have you been going out and trying for TP DX from Asia this season? I know much of it has already been a wash, but there are days where Asia is open here.
 
crainbebo said:
Nicely done Paul. The solar conditions have died down just slightly. Have you been going out and trying for TP DX from Asia this season? I know much of it has already been a wash, but there are days where Asia is open here.
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No, I havent really done much AM DX this year... sticking with SW really
 
I checked out Longyearbyen, Sweden, on Google Maps. It is VERY far north, on an island near the Arctic Circle. Longyearbyen is a coal mining town that regularly sees the Northern Lights and bears.

The signal likely crossed somewhere near the North Pole to arrive in Alaska.
 
Marcos_C said:
You mean Norway, right? On my iPhone's Maps app, I see that Longyearbyen is far away from Alaska, so it is remarkable that the signal was able to travel that far.
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Yeah yeah for some reason i flip those two countries in my mind with regards to longyearbyen, no idea why.

Its not the first time ive heard 14785, wont be the last.. and not my farthest am log by a long shot.
 
Yes, I should have said Norway. Norway wraps around the northernmost parts of Sweden and Finland so they have no coastline on the Norwegian Sea. And that's where this island is, hundreds of kilometers north of the mainland. Quite remote. But they do have that 1,000 watt radio station that plays David Bowie and John Mayer!
 
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