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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on December 31, 2015, 1457 UTC

Title: Norway radio enthusiast tunes into CBC Saskatchewan 5,800 km away
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on December 31, 2015, 1457 UTC

Ole Forr is a 58-year-old radio lover who tunes into radio stations across the world for fun

A dairy farmer in Norway went to great lengths to tune into CBC Saskatchewan.

Sure, The Morning Edition with Sheila Coles is the No. 1 morning radio show in Saskatchewan. But few people could have expected it to reach a group of listeners more than 5,800 kilometres away— and not through the internet.

Ole Forr doesn't let thousands of kilometres and the Atlantic Ocean get in the way of his hobby.

Full article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/norway-farmer-thrilled-cbc-saskatchewan-radio-1.3384042 (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/norway-farmer-thrilled-cbc-saskatchewan-radio-1.3384042)

Title: Re: Norway radio enthusiast tunes into CBC Saskatchewan 5,800 km away
Post by: Pigmeat on December 31, 2015, 1735 UTC

I wonder if he's one of the guys who is part of the Nordic DX Club? Those guys used to slay the North American stations during the winter.

Title: Re: Norway radio enthusiast tunes into CBC Saskatchewan 5,800 km away
Post by: ka1iic on December 31, 2015, 2149 UTC

It proves something that many of the real old timers use to say... "...you don't need sunspots to get the job done."

Amen!

Title: Re: Norway radio enthusiast tunes into CBC Saskatchewan 5,800 km away
Post by: BoomboxDX on January 01, 2016, 1804 UTC

Andøya is a popular island for Norwegian MW DXers. I know of at least one guy who DXes from Andøya, who has a blog. A different guy than the one mentioned in the linked article, though.

Title: Re: Norway radio enthusiast tunes into CBC Saskatchewan 5,800 km away
Post by: Oliver on January 01, 2016, 1819 UTC

Here some infos to Ole Forr and his equipment.

http://www.krosradio.com/?p=1063

He also has a blog which can be found at:

http://la6eia.blogspot.de/?m=1

Title: Re: Norway radio enthusiast tunes into CBC Saskatchewan 5,800 km away
Post by: redhat on January 03, 2016, 0831 UTC

Yup, the stations I used to work for would usually get a few reception reports from Norway and Finland around this time of the year.  We even had QSL cards we would send back.

+-RH

Title: Re: Norway radio enthusiast tunes into CBC Saskatchewan 5,800 km away
Post by: Jari Finland on January 03, 2016, 1404 UTC

Cough cough.

(http://www.teknokekko.fi/qrz/cbk.jpg)

Title: Re: Norway radio enthusiast tunes into CBC Saskatchewan 5,800 km away
Post by: Antennae on January 11, 2016, 2146 UTC

Cool QSL, Jari, it took me a while to figure out what your post meant!