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Farthest non saltwater daytime reach

I'm thinking that my 300 mile daytime catch of KFI in Santa Cruz could be considered pretty much a land path catch because the only water the signal passes over is Monterey Bay.

It's easily listenable if not for the splatter of KIDD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNzZw2aS_34

Years ago, it also was listenable mid day too just as far north on the car radio traveling down I-5 in the central valley after crossing through the hills from Gilroy.
 
cyberdad said:
Okay....now here's a question.  There's one station that's clearly audible daytime in both the Twin Cities and Chicago....and all points in between.  Can anyone name it? 
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And the correct answer is indeed.....WMT!

I've been doing the Chicago-Twin Cities run for more than 25 years.  WMT is audible daytime anywhere along the way.  When I did my drive last Saturday, I was listening to the Iowa-Indiana game.  No problems whatsoever.  Not exactly strong, but always solid and very listenable.

Someone mentioned WHO.  WHO doesn't quite make it to Chicago, and it's not normally listenable near the adjacent 1030 in the Twin Cities or 1050 in Eau Claire.  For that matter, it's not very listenable in most of the Wisconsin portion of the route.

As for CBK, KFYR, and WNAX having bigger signals than WMT?  True, but that wasn't what my question was about.
 
radioman148 said:
WHO used to make it to the Chicago area during the day before AM 1030 came on.
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I don't remember hearing WHO during the day growing up in Wauconda in the 60s, but I did hear it a little to the west at my grandparents in Woodstock.

After my post, I looked at the Radio-Locator maps. "On paper" the (daytime) arc depicted for each of the stations near the Chicago-Minneapolis are actually pretty close. WMT with a slight advantage. But, IME as a real-world practical matter, it's not much of a contest. Now if you're doing the drive from Minneapolis to Kansas City on I-35, WHO could be your constant companion. There's a 1030 in (or near) both cities, but I've never found either of those to be much of a problem.
 
radioman148 said:
Growing up in The near north suburbs I could hear WHO during the day on a good radio. It was weak, but there.
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Don't doubt it at all. My Hallicrafters S-120 was decent enough, but not exactly "rockstar" for the AM band.
 
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