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KFIZ welcomes it’s newest listener… in Finland

Recently KFIZ received an email from a distant land you wouldn’t expect to have someone say they were listening to KFIZ.
A man by the name of Dr. Jopi Nyman sent us this email…
Dear Friends,
a week ago I had the real pleasure of catching your KFIZ AM 1450 when listening to radio stations on an expedition to the Finnish Lapland. My receiver was a software defined communications receiver Perseus and as an antenna, I used a 3,000 ft. beverage (longwire) to west, ca 305 degrees.
As your station is a really rare catch here indeed, I would appreciate your response. A short email “Yes it was us!” would make me very happy!
Listening information:
15 January 2025 1 AM local Fond du Lac time (07.00 GMT): Station identification. And I love the dog!!
I am 58 years old and married with Kristiina. I work as Professor of English at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu where I teach English and Cultural Studies. My main field of research is American and British literature, and I have published a number of books in this area. I am particularly interested in postcolonial and ethnic studies.
Joensuu is a lively town in eastern Finland quite close to the common border with Russia as it is only 60 kilometers to the border line from my hometown. There live about 75,000 people here, and the most important trades are commerce and services. Besides the University, founded in the late 1960s to provide experts for the needs of Eastern Finland, many other schools are located here, too. Joensuu is best known for its annual rock festival: the Ilosaarirock (www.ilosaarirock.fi) festival with 37,000 participants is going strong and attracts lots of young people to the town every July.
Jopi says The shack where he listened to KFIZ is located in the far north of Finnish Lapland, in Inari, some 200 miles north of the Arctic circle. The place is very distant from everywhere to avoid any electric disturbance. It is a 1970s house with modern conveniences.