Thanks to Rob, PE9PE for sending on this following news item. Omroep Venlo is a relatively low powered FM radio station in the south of the Netherlands running 0.5kW on 96.9 MHz.
On their website, they posted a story about how someone in Ivalo in the north of Finland had sent them a reception report with an audio recording which they put on their website... https://omroepvenlo.nl/nieuws/artikel/omroep-venlo-ook-in-lapland-in-de-ether
On their site, they write... "Omroep Venlo was temporarily audible in Lapland thanks to a natural phenomenon. A local radio amateur in Northern Finland picked up the signal and listened to music from Venlo."
"52-year-old Marko Brask from Ivalo, Finland, some 2,300 kilometres north of Venlo, was surfing the airwaves when he came across a radio broadcast from Omroep Venlo. Brask could understand little of the song Waat Gaon We Doon by De Herfshane Band. Reason for him to write to Omroep Venlo and check whether the broadcast actually came from Venlo."
"That was correct; the fragment that Brask sent along is indeed from a broadcast of Omroep Venlo. The signal could be heard in Lapland thanks to a natural phenomenon with the ionosphere. This layer in the atmosphere can reflect radio signals back to the earth like a mirror. This allows signals on the FM band to be listened to over great distances."
They don't mention the date of the reception report but it sound likes it might have been Sporadic-E. The distance was 2236 kms which is just inside the maximum distance for one hop Sporadic-E.
Using Google search, I can see other reception reports for this person in Finland so it would seem like they are an experienced FM DXer rather than just some random person finding the station on an ordinary radio.
In itself, it's not all that special a reception report in terms of distance or power but it was still interesting to see a radio station acknowledge the report on their website.
