Arctic 252 – latest news.
June 2026
The weather in Northern Finland has been very wet delaying the antenna mast base construction. Work will be completed by the end of Autumn and the new antenna finally erected. The antenna base joint needed welding and that work was carried out and the top hat wire connections all cleaned up. Hopes are to extend the height of the antenna by adding a section.
Arctic is still awaiting a new frequency but what is urgently needed is a new oscillator board built to enable easy frequency change. If anyone has the knowledge to build one please get in touch. The crystals (2-4 MHz range) for the current board are just not available anywhere so flexible frequency change is impossible at the moment. The PLL boards originally used with these transmitters have also been impossible to find.
Arctic 252 – 252 kHz Longwave – Inari, Finland
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Source: Arctic 252 homepage via Kari Kallio, nordx iog (2026-07-12)