The Alaskan radio ‘nerd’ listening to Tasmania from 13,000km away

Paul Walker Jr is a self-confessed ‘radio nerd’ who has made a hobby out of trying to hear distant transmissions from his home in the small village of McGrath, Alaska.

But recently he heard a station further away than ever before — in Hobart, Tasmania. 

Paul Walker isn’t your typical ABC Radio Hobart listener. For starters, he’s on the other side of the world. 

“I am actually 13,000 kilometres away in Alaska, USA, in a small village called McGrath. We’re a…