Radio land
Second day on my first mission and I am able to get a slow Internet connection thanks to a nearby iPhone.
Having been surrounded by radio equipment and not much more than trees and snow for a couple of days with little sleep, I am starting to believe I’m in a new country – radio land – where the language is a mix of English and Swedish and the days long and hard.
It took us a while to get the radio transmitter up and running yesterday. I was digging, shuffling snow and putting together the enormous construction piece by piece. It was hugely satisfying to see the transmitter lighting up the black night and to finally be broadcasting around 11pm. I was absolutely exhausted in the end, but once the music started streaming our cabin became a party.
I still can’t believe we’ve created a totally new radio station from scratch – all from a forest somewhere in Sweden. We’ll be broadcasting on 99.5FM until Sunday.
