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Best place for a good mix - for bandscans

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ksradiogeek

I will be traveling to North Carolina for the first time in a couple months, and am interested in doing some bandscans. Given that ground conductivity for AM is poor in the Southeast (as I found out firsthand in Florida last year), I was wondering where an ideal location would be for an AM scan in the Triad. (Kernersville, possibly? Because of its centralized location between the three main cities, is my reasoning.) If not, I’ll probably do scans in each individual primary city. I know there are many AM stations in the market, some being adjacent channels, and I’m wanting to get most, if not all, of them.

(Also, I intend to do some scans in the Triangle and in/around Charlotte, and would be interested in ideal, centralized locations for AM scans.)
 
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I can’t help you with the Triad, but I can advise you to take a beach trip to The Outer Banks. You will find some of the best AM DX anywhere there. On Hatteras Island I’ve logged stations from Jacksonville Florida to Long Island NY and a lot in between. In the daytime.
 
Retspin said:
I can’t help you with the Triad, but I can advise you to take a beach trip to The Outer Banks. You will find some of the best AM DX anywhere there. On Hatteras Island I’ve logged stations from Jacksonville Florida to Long Island NY and a lot in between. In the daytime.
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I’ll look to see if I can get some time to head that way. I only have a week timeframe, and that involves first flying into Atlanta and getting a car share rental.
 
It would probably be best to keep to the Greensboro side of the market, if for no other reason than the ground conductivity (at least according to the FCC M3 map) is slightly better in Guilford County.

The previous poster suggested Asheboro, probably a good choice. I could suggest High Point, with the added bonus of being able to drive down Main Street and see one of the few remaining rooftop AM sites (WMFR).
 
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