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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:
 
in the late 1960`s i got an am/fm radio that had exceptional reception on distant am stations i got many from all over the country at night.a fair amount durring the day.

i live in indianapolis indiana and got then top 40 wabc new york city and one time got a news station from california.

i dropped it on the basement floor and it died .i hated it when that happened.

this leads me to a question .in the 60`s and early 70`s i saw radios that were good at pulling am signals from all over the country.why don`t they do that now?
 
Schroedingers Cat said:
What brand and model was it? Sony had some good ones in that era.
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i don`t remember .it happened almost 40 years ago.

i`m serious.if they could make radios that could pull in am signals like that why don`t they do that now?i pulled talk radio from boston on it.wor new york. i regularly listened to wls and wcfl chicago when they were top 40.i got them about any time of the day.and so many diffrent others i cant remember where they were from.
 
From my home in south Florida, I was able to bag KXBT Vallejo CA on 2 frequencies, 1630 & 1640 (I think 1640 came first, and then they moved), in the 1990s in the X-band, before more nighttime stations & TIS's popped up all over the place. I am glad I caught these when I did....the empty bands didn't last long!

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KidDooWop,
To tell you the truth, I started to do some real AM DX only about 4 years ago, and in northern VA, the farthest US station I heard so far was KOA in Denver. However, someone in New York City recently heard KOA, so he actually did better than I did, considering that he is farther from Denver than I am. I was in Oregon several years ago and the farthest station I heard there was...I didn't keep any logs or remember what that station was...but it was in Manitoba, Canada.
 
I started DX'ing here in Cincinnati well over 50 years ago. As such, I've picked up the 50,000 watt stations in New York City pretty regularly over that time. Usually now, I tune in WCBS to hear the Yankees or just listen to their news coverage. Going west, the farthest used to be WHO in Des Moines. In more recent years, I've gotten KOA in Denver. KSL from Salt Lake City used to be possible until a lower-power station here went onto the 1160 k.c.frequency.
 
I heard KFI once and only once from South Jersey in the winter of 77-78. I still see that as my most thrilling catch of all because I listened night after night for weeks on end and didn't hear it until it finally came in for a brief time with a very listenable signal one night.

WCBS and WCAU (now WPHT) from Northern California in the late 70s and early 80s.

More recently, KNX and KFI from Tampa.
 
flashback said:
i dropped it on the basement floor and it died .i hated it when that happened.
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A variation on that happened to me around 1966. I had a 1950's Zenith tube type console radio that I dearly loved...and my dad knew it. So when my report card didn't pass muster, he took my radio from my second story bedroom to the basement. Needless to say, my next report card was far better and I got my radio back. Only problem is that the trauma of hauling it up and down the flights of stairs caused it to stop working. I put all new tubes in it with no success. Living proof that 7th grade boys did actually cry.

Getting to the question posed by this thread, this splendid radio pulled in KSL 1160 from Salt Lake City Utah almost every night in Cincinnati (back when KSL was the only station on 1160 at night--those were the days). It also heard KOB (now KKOB) 770 Albuquerque,NM during the 10 minutes that WABC was off the air for the Great Northeast Blackout in November 1965. Somewhere around here, I still have a QSL card from KOB for that. I eventually heard KFI 640 Los Angeles, but not on that radio. The antenna was a 100' horizontal long wire.
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
Going west, the farthest used to be WHO in Des Moines.
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I grew up in Cincinnati & KSL 1160 and WOAI 1200 were there pretty well every night in the 1960's.
 
I'm in Dallas, which is the middle so I can say I've heard both coasts. Best from the west was CKWX Vancouver in the late 90's, and before 1030 became a jumble, WBZ used to be a regular catch.
 
From Coldwater, MI:

West: KTNN- Window Rock, AZ (2007) KSL- Salt Lake City (2009) KNX, KFI- Los Angeles (2010)

East: CBA-Moncton, NB (Heard in '06 before they turned it off!)
 
When traveling years ago on the west coast I heard WNBC, WABC, WCBS, and WBZ at various times from Seattle down to LA. These days It's probably impossible.
 
LibertyNT said:
Here in DFW just last year I picked up KIRO from Seattle, WA
That's been my 2nd Best West Coast Pickup (The Other Being KFI)
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Actually, it's probably your 1st best West Coast pickup from the DFW area! Seattle is certainly quite a bit farther from you than LA is. Good catch!
 
From a philadelphia suburb, my furthest catch was KOA. I am trying for KSL but I only get some gospel station and an espn affiliate. I am also trying for west coast stations like KFI or KNX.
 
I wanted to try for a west coast station as well!!!! Here in western pa, do you think it's possible nowadays?? What are some good West Coast station's that I might be able to try & pick up????
 
KidDooWop said:
I wanted to try for a west coast station as well!!!! Here in western pa, do you think it's possible nowadays?? What are some good West Coast station's that I might be able to try & pick up????
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I don't know what's on 1070 in your area, but KNX still makes it to the Chicago area, but you have to be patient and aim your antenna towards the west coast. I used to be able to get KFI well but now it's much tougher with all the clutter on 640. KNBR on 680 used to occasionally make it, but that was a long time ago.

Good luck!
 
Furthest West would be KSL & KOB when I lived in Indy years ago.

Today, best west is 850/KOA which usually shows up with a weak signal.

East is Croatia on 1134 KHZ thanks to their 600KW transmitter and directional antenna system pointed roughly my way. Haven't heard them yet this year, but then I haven't tried too hard.
 
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