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Furthest Station From The East Or West Coast You Have Received???

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KidDooWop

I just started really DXing & alot of years just playing around trying to receive different stations on the radio(Mainly on the AM Band). Being from Southwestern Pennsylvania & with the hilly terrain, i've always have been curious as to what far away stations I can receive here. Which leads me to another question I've always wondered........what are some of the furthest stations from the East Coast & the West Coast you were able to pick up inland. If that makes any sense,lol......what I mean is how far East were you able to receive a station from the West Coast & how far West were you able to pick up a station from the East Coast & those general areas? With the AM band more crowded these days it's alot harder to receive signal's that it used to be. Just curious & excited to see some responses of what you have logged over the years .....Thanks :eek:
 
...when growing up in Oshkosh, WI, in the '70s, I was able to pick up KFI Los Angeles and KSL Salt Lake City on a regular basis...
 
The furthest catch to the West that I have caught in the Albany, NY area is 1520-KOMA, Oklahoma City, OK when WWKB Buffalo, NY was off the air one night. Normally the furthest West that I can regularly receive is 1120-KMOX St. Louis, Mo. To the South, I once pulled in 560-WQAM Miami, Fl...
 
This was back in the 70s. Not sure of the year, but I once received WSM 650 in Nashville on my radio in San Diego. That blew my mind.
 
WSM is a clear channel station so it really isn't all that unusual. KIKK 650 AM here in Houston signs off at night to clear the way for them.
 
Back in 1975 I received WCBS 880 AM clearly one night in Silver City, NM when KRVN was off the air. I also heard WNNNNBC 660 AM in the same location. This was way before KTNN signed on. WLS... the big 89 was a regular catch in Globe, AZ in the early 90's. WCCO could be heard here in Globe up until a few years ago. I also pulled in KSTP 1500 AM? a few times.
 
I scan regularly on my car radio in Pittsburgh.

Furthest from the east in recent times, Boston, New York, Philadelphia.

Furthest from the west, St. Louis, Nashville, Chicago.
 
From here in Middletown CT, I can get Radio Rejos (sp?) Havan Cuba on 570 at night, when WMCA NYC gets lost in the sauce.

On FM a regular catch here is the 3-way battle between WBLS/WFCC/WFNK with WFNK being Portland Maine, not a bad haul.

When DX is just right, I've pulled in KVSC on 88.1 in St. Cloud, Minn.

AM DX is another story, for the most part it's pretty standard here, all the major clears come in as far out as the midwest and midsouth, I'd say anywhere from Atlanta (WSB) to Windsor ONT (CKLW) and much further.
 
From my place in Riochester, NY, the furthest distance signal to the west I've ever picked up is KFI in Los Angeles...the east coasters like WBZ, WABC, WFAN and WCBS, as well as the Philly clears, WBAL and WFED are a piece of cake every night (and occasionally WFAN is audible in the daytime). Midwesterners from Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis are also easy nightly catches, with WJR and CKLW also audible in daylight. The signals from the intermountain West and the Pacific Coast are always the biggest challenges.
 
Back in Pittsburgh in 1963, I pulled in 820 from Dallas only one time. Kinda spooked me since JFK, my hero at the time, was shot weeks later.
 
MsMusicRadio said:
Back in Pittsburgh in 1963, I pulled in 820 from Dallas only one time.
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That shows you how variable conditions are relatively close locations are. 820 from TX was a pest.

In '61 to '63 in Cleveland, I had a timer set to turn on my radio and tape 820 after midnight, Ft Worth time. That was so I could record HJED from Cali, which I could not do with WBAP/WFAA dominating 820 prior to sign-off. I'd play back the tape while doing homework the next evening and usually the HJED signal was 100% listenable.
 
QTH Owensboro, KY. I copied KNBR San Francisco twice in the early nineties. Though not west coast another catch around that time was KKOB Albuquerque, NM. I was surprised since it was after their sunset.

My job takes me on the road at 4am, along the way I try 640 and 1070 for LA but it's a lost cause on 640 and 1070 is dominant with WDIA on a STA.
 
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