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A post not about WQMA!

C

Casual_Observer

Hi everybody!

So I was listening to 1520 AM on Thursday morning in Flora at about 9:30 AM expecting to hear WQMA, because they obviously must be running at 5 Megawatts the way its presented on this board :)

Instead, during broad daylight, I heard KOKC from Oklahoma City. That's a few miles short of 500 miles away! My 11-year old factory-installed car radio scanned and stopped right on it, even in the middle of the daytime. It was the only "far away" AM station that I could get in the middle of the day.

Also in Flora, on Wednesday (nighttime), I was picking up KFI in Los Angeles as if it were local and WABC in New York as if it were local also. I thought, "how cool is this? In one push of a button, I can listen to two radio stations on opposite ends of the country..."

I wish I had an AM station. They're so cool.

---Casual Observer
 
Casual_Observer said:
Hi everybody!

So I was listening to 1520 AM on Thursday morning in Flora at about 9:30 AM expecting to hear WQMA, because they obviously must be running at 5 Megawatts the way its presented on this board :)

Instead, during broad daylight, I heard KOKC from Oklahoma City. That's a few miles short of 500 miles away! My 11-year old factory-installed car radio scanned and stopped right on it, even in the middle of the daytime. It was the only "far away" AM station that I could get in the middle of the day.

Also in Flora, on Wednesday (nighttime), I was picking up KFI in Los Angeles as if it were local and WABC in New York as if it were local also. I thought, "how cool is this? In one push of a button, I can listen to two radio stations on opposite ends of the country..."

I wish I had an AM station. They're so cool.

---Casual Observer
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AM stations are COOL !! I hate that they have fallen by the wayside . I remember listening at night to 1090 KAAY (Little Rock ) , 1510 WLAC ( Nashville ) and let's not forget 890 WLS (Chicago , with John "Records" Landecker ....boy , those were the days .Back then , these stations were kick ass Top 40 . It was so cool to be in Central Mississippi in the 70's and listening to these bigger markets like they were in your back yard .
 
> listening to these bigger markets like they were in your backyard

You still can. Get satellite. Or listen to the Internet streams.

Or, if it's the coolness of the transcontinental RF that excites, get a ham license. It's 1pm as I write. If I went downstairs, and got on 14 MHz, I could get into the West Coast with 5 watts. No trouble.

Skywave is cool.

DE
 
I know that you can listen to most any station online these days . I was only thinking back to the way things once were .....but damn , I should know by now that you can't say anything on this board without getting beat down by at least one person . So , i'll just read and keep my comments to myself for awhile .
 
Tough day in North Madison County, Scan? Didn't see anybody here beating down on ya. I was just glad poor old Records Landecker can still get paid for his line of work after all these years.
 
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