OULU, FINLAND -- Cheyenne County Country is world-wide after a Finland man contacted the station about his listening experience.

Biology and Geography Teacher Jari Ruohomäki has a hobby of listening to foreign radio stations. The hobby is called dx-listening, and Ruohomäki has been a dx-listener since 1973.

Ruohomäki notified the radio station about his discovery from Finland via email:

"Greetings from Oulu, Finland! My name is Jari Ruohomäki and I send this letter to you because I was able to listen to KSID 1340 AM in Finland with my special equipment. And please note that I picked up your signal by traditional way with a radio receiver and not via Internet!"

Ruohomäki tunes in to radio using his Italian made softa radio Perseus and a copper wire 3,300 feet long pointed towards North America to get a signal.

"It is very important to have a long antenna to a certain direction when one tries to pick up overseas AM stations," Ruohomäki said.

Ruohomäki said he has five different antennas pointing to five different North American directions.

Ruohomäki travels to the most northern region of Finland every winter to get the best listening experience.

"We spend a week or two in an isolated cottage," Ruohomäki said. "The conditions are much better there because of less interference from human activities and from European AM stations."

Ruohomäki said he was in Lemmenjoki when he heard the Cheyenne County Country station. Lemmenjoki is about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle and 350 miles north of Oulu, where Ruohomäki lives.

Ruohomäki emailed clips of what he heard on the radio from his equipment to prove he was tuned in from Finland.