BROKEN BOW, NE – KCNI Pure Country was heard nearly 4,500 miles away in Sweden, according to AM radio enthusiasts located across the Atlantic Ocean in Parkalompolo, Sweden. The reception took place in late October of 2023 and was discovered when recordings were being replayed over a year later when this year’s reception efforts were not returning results.
Jan Oscarsson and Bo Olofsson both emailed KCNI/KBBN to say that they heard KCNI between October 25 and October 26 at 6:30 AM CDT from a location in Parkalompolo, which they described as a small village in the far north of Sweden. A 3,000 foot wire pointing to the northwest paired with an Elad FDM-SW2 receiver.
Listen to the captured audio here:
In the audio clip, you can hear a spoken station ID saying “KCNI, Pure Country” followed by the beginning of a country song.
Olofsson is a 71 year old retired electronics engineer interested in how AM radio and the geomagnetic field interact. He has been actively scanning the AM band for statoins bouncing across the Atlantic from the United States and Canada for 53 years with top equipment at noise free locations. He said this was the first time he has managed to pick up a little bit of KCNI sound.
Oscarsson lives in Umeå in northern Sweden and works in molecular biology. He has enjoyed DX-ing radio since he started listening to shortwave on his parent’s Arena grammophone/radio receiver back in the 1980s.
