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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.
Key points:
- Paul Walker is a community radio station employee in the US whose hobby is trying to hear far away frequencies
- ABC Radio Hobart is the furthest away signal he’s ever heard via radio
- He has heard other frequencies from around the world including Norway and Romania
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…
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