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Farthest Daytime AM Regular

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BobOnTheJob

Having just put up a 400' longwire and acquired a Drake R8, I think I've finally figured out that my farthest regular catch is 5KW WMT 600 Cedar Rapids,IA at a little over 350 air miles--in spite of WTVN's obnoxious IBOC hiss at 180 miles! Second place goes to WKBN 570 Youngstown,OH at 320 miles or so. There's something audible behind Mt Washington,KY on 1040...have yet to determine if that is WHO Des Moines,IA. If so, that would beat WMT. I'm 30 miles south of Indianapolis. What are your top 2 or 3 regular stations distance wise?
 
From Rochester, I can get WJR all day long. That's just under 300 miles, and much of the path goes over Lake Erie. Second place is probably CFCO 630 from Chatham ON.
 
Not worth trying from here in Nashville, ground conductivity is too low to make it worthwhile.... probably the best daytime regular is 640 Memphis at about 180 miles.

WLW came in all day in Madison, Wis.. That's about 300 miles as well.
 
For me a tie between WSCR 670, WGN 720, and WBBM 780 Chicago from Vermilion, OH at approx. 300 miles away. Out of these, WGN has a slightly stronger signal. Been trying for WTMJ on 620 but WTVN's IBOC as noted is a bit too much.
 
From the near north Chicago suburbs CFCO used to be my farthest regular daytime catch until WTMJ's IBOC killed it. Now its WLW or KTRS.
 
As long as I have DXed, this thread is something I had not even considered!

As far as today, in 2012, I will have to get back with y'all for my answer.

Back in (I guess) the 90s, Radio Vision Cristiana AM 530 in Turks & Caicos was my farthest regular daytime AM...maybe a distance of 750 miles? With much lower power now, they are not even heard here now.

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This goes back about twenty years but daytime catches using a GE Superadio II and its internal antenna from Owensboro, KY include CKLW Windsor WVOK Birmingham and WTVN Columbus when I could null out WRUS Russelville.
 
WTMJ 620...that used to come in here, but when they upped their power, it got weaker here. And then WTVN's IBOC wiped out any chance of it. 540 WAUK Jackson,WI's 400 watts once made it into here regularly at 285 miles but at some point, Clarksville,TN on 540 upped their power to 4KW...it handily owns the frequency at 200 miles now.
 
Here in Central Virginia, under just the right conditions, I've pulled in several NY blowtorches during the day for a few days consecutively, but as a regular long distance daytimer, probably DC or Richmond is about the farthest I've gotten anything regular.
 
Daytime here with the water path just S of Charleston (James Island) I can get very long distances. WIOD Miami at 475 miles or so is in most of the time daytime. WQAM is under 560 from Columbia, and 760 West Palm Beach also comes in decently.

570 CMCA also comes in well daytime most of the time (probably farthest), and I can hear 820 Tampa with my radio at 375 miles, over the entire FL peninsula.
 
^ This guy's in the right spot!

I was in Myrtle Beach in 2006-ish, and heard both WIOD and WEFL 760 in my home market. 760 with only 3000 watts daytime really gets out.

I was at Cape Hatteras NC in Nov 1997....the stuff you could hear in the daytime---just wow.

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From Coldwater, MI

365 days a year-
WHAS 840 Louisville, KY- 250 miles or so

Winter months-
CFZM 740 Toronto, ON- 300 miles
 
In SE MI, before all the noise began overwhelming the band, I would hear, with a long wire antenna and a preamp, several barely audible groundwave signals.

As I recall, they were:

WSM 650
WHAS 840
KDKA 1020
WWVA 1170
WHAM 1180

At the 5 kW level:

WGR 550
WKRC 550
WIND 560 with Monroe, MI off.
WKBN 570
WTVN 610
WTMJ 620
WAIT 820
WOSU 820
 
BobOnTheJob said:
WTMJ 620...that used to come in here, but when they upped their power, it got weaker here. And then WTVN's IBOC wiped out any chance of it. 540 WAUK Jackson,WI's 400 watts once made it into here regularly at 285 miles but at some point, Clarksville,TN on 540 upped their power to 4KW...it handily owns the frequency at 200 miles now.
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WTMJ had to reduce or maintain overlap with WTUV 620 near Louisville. Since they moved closer, that had to be less than the 5 kW omni closer to Milwaukee. This is the only direction that WTMJ radiates less than the equivalent of the former 5 kW omni facilities. Since much of the signal in that direction is over Lake Michigan, it has less service impact, but I think parts of the Chicago area also get less signal.
 
SC, no 670 or 720 out of Chicago in SE Michigan? I would've thought at least one of Chicago's 50kws would've made it there during the day. I know WBBM has competition from Saginaw.
 
Here in Tampa, it's WWL at 480 miles away.

Out at the beach 20 miles away, it's KTRH at 775 miles away.

;D
 
Farthest regular daytime AM stations from eastern Kansas are:
1) WNAX 570am Yankton SD 309 miles
2) KRVN 880am Lexington NE 298 miles
3) KWMT 540am Fort Dodge IA 249 miles
4) KTIC 840am West Point NE 228 miles
5) KFI 640am Ames IA 222 miles
 
For me in northern VA, the farthest regular AMs are WNIS 790 in Norfolk and WPHT 1210 in Philadelphia both about 180 miles away with a 5 kW signal. Lousy ground conductivity around here means shorter distances. The farthest stations with listenable signals are WHP Harrisburg, PA and WFRB 560 Frostburg, MD, both about 90 miles away. Both with 5 kW daytime signals.
 
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