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Best locations for AM radio reception.

Living at the South Jersey Shore, the AM salt path let Atlantic City stations at 1450Kc and others (1kW n-D) be heard all along the Eastern Shore of Delmarva, across the Chesapeake Bay into Virginia Beach regularly. That's a long haul. Even with the noise floor as obnoxious as it is in 2006, I can easily listen to WALK-AM 1370Kc (250watt) in Patchougue, Long Island NY on a stock Delco car radio. Even on the mainland, anywhere near a mile or so of water, It's listenable. Further inland, it begins to chatter with WPAZ in Pottstown, PA.

Until WIBG Ocean City, NJ moved from 1520 to 1020Kc, WBZ was listenable most all day in the Atlantic City area. Killer splatter ended that.

Pull up lowly WTKU-am 1490 Pleasantville, NJ on Radio-Locator.com. The tower is in a salt marsh with WOND. Look what 500 watts does when covering salt water vs. land. The station gets mail from Europe, Greenland and Norway regularly.
 
I've spent the last several weeks on Fla's west coast. Some interesting and not so interesting finds:
1. From Yankeetown FL (just below Cedar Key
No Beaumont on 560 as hoped, Miami 560 (about 250 mi) too strong. Sean Hannity underneath the main Miami station but not strong enough to ID
No Houston on 740 due to Orlando's 740.
Got Sports on 1600 presumably Key West.
Got WWL like a local
Would have spent more time there but the love bugs and mosquitos were ferocious-don't know how anyone lives there. It wwas like Hitchcock's "The Birds" out there.
2. From Englewood FL
Got KCTA Corpus Christi twice at about 755AM local time and about 7:55 PM local time- I even though the sun was up for about 45 min in the morning I feel the reception was more of a skywave phenonomon as it was just about sunrise in Corpus. At 7;55 PM> the sun was down in Englewood but still daylight in Corpus. it took a number of tries as there is a Spanish station day and night that is reasonably strong.
2. Got `1620 Am Pensacola real clear and 1640 from Meridian MS during the day.
3. 1600 AM in Key West, 560 AM Miami and 740 Orlando too strong for over the Gulf reception on those frequencies. '
4. Got 1060 New Orleans several times in Nulls of adj 1070 Ft. Myers.
5. WWL fair to good 2-3 mi inland, good to VG at the beach.
 
Just a correction, 1640 is WTNi and licensed to Biloxi, Mississippi...
 
WDDV is now WDIZ and oldies. That's why I had a hard time finding its coverage area.
 
Dondd said:
WDDV is now WDIZ and oldies. That's why I had a hard time finding its coverage area.
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way to dig up another 14 year old thread
 
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