The new licensed short wave station Radio Blacksmith Knoll is testing on 6120 kHz from Finland. The first test transmission took place on June 30, 2024 at 21 UTC (corresponding to the Finnish midnight of July 1st). The licensed power is 25 watts which goes to the 43-meter-long dipole antenna from a transceiver
\nThe license is valid from July 1st to August 6th.
\nThe station announces next transmission for July 1-3 to be:
\nRandom test transmissions during the days and evenings. Fine tuning of the system and preparing studio for more controlled schedule.
\nThis goes as long as needed to verify the workings of both the studio and the TX. Several different methods, test tones, music and other audio will be used, some of them very odd ones!
\nRadio Blacksmith Knoll is the fourth Finnish private SW station. The others are:
\nScandinavian Weekend Radio, Virrat since 2000
\nRealmix Radio, Raasepori since March 2024
\nRadio Piko, Asikkala since May 2024 (which QSL I have not published earlier, but here it comes now!)
\nThis has been a very interesting year for the Finnish short wave scene!<\/p>\n
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