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is it possible to get am's from both coasts from one location?

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vibe

A few years ago I visited Kansas-real nice state and yes, lots to do.
I brought the trusty Bose Wave radio and used it in K.C., a motel in Strong City, KS (100 mi SW of KC) and in camping cabins in Garden City and York NE.
No west coast stations and NYC stations were weak/nonexistant in KC-nothing further west.
But I got KFI on the IN-OH line so go figure.
So back to the original question.....
 
vibe said:
A few years ago I visited Kansas-real nice state and yes, lots to do.
I brought the trusty Bose Wave radio and used it in K.C., a motel in Strong City, KS (100 mi SW of KC) and in camping cabins in Garden City and York NE.
No west coast stations and NYC stations were weak/nonexistant in KC-nothing further west.
But I got KFI on the IN-OH line so go figure.
So back to the original question.....
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Here in the Chicago area I can still occasionally get KNX and of course the powerhouses on the east coast are easy.
 
Well, within the past year from my location north of Chicago, I've gotten KNX from LA and CKWX from Vancouver as well as the nightly contingent of common signals from the east coast (WBZ, WFAN, WCBS, WABC, WPHT, KYW, WRVA, etc.). Granted, the west coast signals are a tough catch normally reserved for long winter nights. Nonetheless, if I can do it from here, then folks in places like IA, MN, MO, KS, NE, OK, SD, etc. should be able to. I did some dxing from Sioux Falls, SD early on a summer night and was pretty sure that I heard KNX in the slop; I did positively get WBZ.

Yes, in the right location, I would have to say that it's possible - perhaps every night. For what its worth, from the Chicago area, KOA Denver and the aforementioned east coast signals come in well every night - move the target west by a few hundred miles and you should be able to go coast to coast pretty often.
 
I've done it "from the comfort of my own home" numerous times (far northwest suburban Chicago). Most recently in December with CKWX and WRVA both with good signals (1130 and 1140 respectively). In college in Iowa it was pretty much a nightly thing with KFI and KNBR being semi-regulars, along with all of the east coast "1-A" clears.

Usually no KNX, however. Semi-local KHMO (Hannibal, MO) with 1kw aimed northwest right at me took care of that.
 
Here in Dallas it used to be possible. Before 1030 became populated at night, WBZ was reasonably easy to hear. And from the west coast I've heard KFI, KNBR, KNX, KFBK and even CKWX.

Today the west coast would be less difficult than the east.
 
There's too much interference and noise these days. But when I started AM DXing, it was possible in Kansas City. I logged WCBS from N.Y. and KNX from L.A. on the same night numerous times. New York and Boston are a couple hundred miles closer to Kansas City than L.A. and San Francisco.
 
Back in the day where I am in the Chicago area KFI was in every night and of course the east coast regulars were easy. Also in fairly regularly was KNBR & KNX. Now it seems you have to have a very good winter night to have a chance at any west coast stations here.
As BRNout mentioned if you're west of Illinois in states like Iowa, Nebraska, or Kansas it's probably doable much more often.
 
Here in Northwest Arkansas, KFI can sometimes be heard in the slop (usually right before sunrise). The easternmost regular catches are KDKA and WSB, but I have never caught an east coast station.
 
Here in Tampa, KNX is a semi regular in the winter and of course, all the big New York stations are there every night.
 
forgot all about FLA USA-still trying for 1070 LA (or any others) but I am about 80 mi S of gar and get the local 1070 WKII? 24/7.
 
I have received stations from west, south AND east coasts from near San Diego, CA..

West Coast - (too many to list, but here's) 5kW(?) 1470 XERCN Tijuana, BCN - crystal set with Select-A-Tenna & utility pole groundwire

South Coast - 500-watt 1290 KZSB Santa Barbara, CA - early afternoon on barefoot Tecsun PL-606

East Coast - 300kW 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan (skip ahead to about 1:20 where I was better able to dodge the IBOC hash from local 5kW 600 KOGO 7.7 miles west of me) - Tecsun PL-380 with Select-A-Tenna

Except for KZSB, which was recorded a half mile or less from the beach, the rest were recorded at home. I'm still missing a north coast station, though.
 
I'm pretty sure I had both coasts on one frequency, 1130, at around 4am local time this morning. I definitely had WBBR. I also had what sounded like CKWX, but couldn't positively ID it. I definitely did have both of them in the mix early one morning last December.
 
around midnight local and after west-coast AMs come in on 3870. weak but somewhat intelligible in boston. 7 to 10 mhz would work a lot better overnight, but everyone seems obsessed with clobbering eachother's primarily NVIS signalson MW, go figure
 
carmen said:
around midnight local and after west-coast AMs come in on 3870. weak but somewhat intelligible in boston. 7 to 10 mhz would work a lot better overnight, but everyone seems obsessed with clobbering eachother's primarily NVIS signalson MW, go figure
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YEOWCH!! Either you have an EXTREMELY SENSITIVE receiver with virtually no harmonic rejection, or someone on 1290 is transmitting a wickedly strong 3rd harmonic!!! And if 7 - 10 MHz is better… well sounds like someone's transmitter is way out of FCC spec for harmonic suppression!!
I just find it absolutely amazing that you can hear to the THIRD HARMONIC of a west coast station all the way from the east coast... and I have trouble hearing the fundamentals of some west coast stations from here ON the west coast! I have heard a west coaster's 3rd harmonic on 3870 myself, KKDD San Bernardino, CA, but IIRC I had to be within a few dozen meters of their sticks.

What are these "NVIS" signals you're referring to on MW? I don't know that I've heard any in the AM band, 530 to 1700 kHz.... unless that's "Near Vertical Incidence Skywave", manifested by my locals on 1040 (61 watts at 11 miles) and 1090 (50 kW at around 30 miles or so) suffering from skywave/groundwave phasing distortion sometimes...
 
I believe your leg has been pulled. 3870 kHz is an amateur radio frequency primarily occupied by hams using AM (instead of SSB). Some of the operators heard there are using converted AM broadcast transmitters.
 
I realize that. :) I was just noticing this topic was AMs, and was assuming it was supposed to be for discussion of broadcast stations (from 530 to 1700 kHz) received from both coasts. :) (And 3870 happens to be the 3rd harmonic of 1290.)
I was just thinking... maybe that poster saw me "bend the rules" so they thought they could too? I posted receiving a station from the west coast and the east coast.... and now I'll point out that the west coast station is a local (in Tijuana, BCN) that can be heard during the day on practically ANY radio, and the east coast station was from Tokyo on/near Japan's east coast. :p (I also mentioned south coast... which really is the west coast, it's just facing south in Santa Barbara. My reception of that station was across a saltwater path.)
 
It was a lot easier in the late 1970s, although still possible...at my location in Rochester, NY the east-coasters like WFAN (formerly WNBC) and WABC are sometimes weakly audible in the daytime, and consistently come in almost like locals after dark. Late at night KFI and occasionally KNX would come in from Los Angeles.
 
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