Most markets you can/have heard from one location?

[charlestondxman]

Driving around the country, there are many places where you can hear stations from two or more markets. This enables most of the frequencies to be filled with stations. There are some places you can hear stations from three or four markets.

FM- Anywhere from Walterboro to Santee, SC on I-95 (about 50 miles). You can readily hear most of Charleston's FMs, plus the strong FMs from the Savannah area (98.7, 106.9, 97.3, 102.1, a few others) and the strong FMs from Columbia (97.5, 106.7, 107.5, 104.7). A couple of stations from Augusta, GA (104.3 and 105.7) can also be heard. That's four markets.

AM (not counting coastal areas, where you can hear multiple markets readily within 10 miles)- Maryland between Baltimore and DC. Can hear any DC or Baltimore station, plus York, PA (WSBA 910), Harrisburg (WHP 580), and a couple of other markets.

TV- Daytona Beach, FL. Back in the analog era when I could hear TV audio, during one summer night there I had every channel from 2 to 13 with a different station. 2 from Daytona, 3 from Tampa, 4 from Jacksonville, 5 from West Palm Beach or Charleston, 6 from Orlando, 7 from Jacksonville, 8 from Tampa, 9 from Orlando, 10 from Miami, 11 from Savannah, 12 from Jacksonville, and 13 from Tampa.

What about you?

 

[Radio-X]

I guess it depends...

If you mean "get consistent daily reception" I'd say Fredericksburg, VA is pretty impressive. Tuning a decent radio, one can get DC, Richmond, Charlottesville, Harrisonburg, and Winchester stations with ease...along with a couple faint stations from Baltimore.

Along the Skyline Drive about a two hour drive away, all those stations plus Norfolk and Roanoke/Lynchburg come in consistently. There isn't an empty frequency in those parts!

If you mean "get regular tropo reception" it'd have to be Hilton Head/Bluffton, SC. Regular reception of Savannah and Charleston signals. One can easily get Jacksonville, Orlando, Columbia, Augusta, and several from Melbourne/Ft. Pierce!

Radio-X

 

[gar hi]

If you're talking 24/7 all the time, the first place that comes to mind is where I grew up in South Jersey near Philadelphia.

Many New York AM stations are easily listenable and in the analog TV days, the New York VHF TV stations were easy to get with an antenna in the attic or on the roof, though the picture quality was nothing like the locals.

 

[radioman148]

I would imagine somewhere, maybe several places in that NYC--Washington DC corridor would yield the largest amount of different markets.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

As far as TV is concerned, in the analog era the area in western/central Illinois that might have a chance at receiving stations at the most markets from one location--with a top-notch antenna--would have to be around Macomb. With a good, tall antenna you wouldn't have had problems at receiving at least marginal signals from at least 6 (maybe 7) markets as follows:

--All of the major Quincy/Hannibal and Quad Cities stations
--Most, if not all, of Peoria/Bloomington (WYZZ-43 Bloomington might have been a stretch)
--At least the Springfield side of the Champaign/Decatur/Springfield market (WICS-20, WRSP-55)--and maybe WAND-17 Decatur optimal conditions
--KTVO-3 Kirksville/Ottumwa (especially during the days of the ill-fated Colony, MO tower in 1987-88)
--KIIN-12 Iowa City (Cedar Rapids DMA--Iowa Public Television) (KIIN is still on Macomb's Comcast cable lineup)
--Maybe a chance of at least one St. Louis station (most likely KPLR--I'm not sure if KPLR was ever on Macomb's cable back in the day).

Basically the Macomb area was likely the place where you could have had a realistic chance at receiving at least a decent OTA analog signal from every station that was listed in the former Western Illinois edition of TVG (which carried all of the QC, Quincy, Peoria/Bloomington, and Kirksville/Ottumwa DMA stations, plus WICS and WRSP from Springfield).

(This doesn't count Chicago TV stations that were formerly on Macomb cable).

And likely FM stations from the same TV markets listed above "back in the day"--plus prior to WNLF-95.9 signing on in fall 2000 with a Macomb COL, on at least a car radio KWWR 95.7 "Country 96" Mexico, MO (Columbia/Jefferson City DMA) would have been a Macomb-area regular especially at night.

 

[crainbebo]

Mountain passes. Chinook Pass along Highway 410 in WA is one example. I heard FMs from the following markets:
- Seattle
- Victoria BC
- Vancouver BC
- Portland, OR
- Yakima
- Tri-Cities WA
- Eugene OR
- Bend OR

along with stations from rimshot areas like Longview WA, Ellensburg WA, Moses Lake WA, and Hood River/The Dalles OR which are not in a real Nielsen/CRTC market. Also had one FM (KCRX-102.3) from Astoria, OR, along the Oregon Coast.

 

[gr8oldies]

I can go through a few markets where I've lived.
First, my current location in Knoxville TN (and working in Sevierville).
Primarily Knoxville, a couple from Asheville (WKSF 99.9; WTPT 93.9; WMIT 99.9, and one of 2 from Chattanooga, one from Lexington and the Greenville SC market (WLZT-98.1). Translators are changing some of this.

Dayton, Ohio-
Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus, Lima, some Indianapolis. One Toledo station (92.5) in the far north suburbs.

Where I grew up in west Central Ohio.
Fort Wayne, Dayton, Windsor/Detroit. Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Cleveland
TV: Dayton (2 and 7), the Fort Wayne and Lima UHF. Snowy but usually there: The Cincinnati, Cincinnati and Columbus VHFs.

Lafayette Indiana:
Lafayette, Indianapolis, Chicago, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne

.

 

[cyberdad]

Where I am now in Crystal Lake, Illinois and where I grew up 11 miles east of here in Wauconda, Illinois, Chicago is the home market. (40-ish miles to the southeast). But TV and FM are generally fully available from Milwaukee (60 miles to my northeast) and Rockford (most of the sticks about 50 miles to my west). Madison, WI, (80 miles to my northwest) signals are also present on a semi-regular basis. Especially true when WISC-TV was operating analog on Channel 3.

 

[charlestondxman]

On AM here I can get the full set of Charleston stations, most of Savannah's AMs (especially 630, 1290 and 900), most of Jacksonville's AMs, plus Orlando, West Palm Beach and Miami stations on different frequencies.

That's at least 6 markets I can hear regularly.

 

[joebtsflk1]

--Maybe a chance of at least one St. Louis station (most likely KPLR--I'm not sure if KPLR was ever on Macomb's cable back in the day).

I do remember in the late 70s seeing movies on KPLR when visiting my sister who lived not far away from Macomb in Keokuk IA...if KPLR was on Keokuk's cable, chances are they might have been on Macomb's, but that's just an assumption on my part.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

I can go through a few markets where I've lived.
First, my current location in Knoxville TN (and working in Sevierville).
Primarily Knoxville, a couple from Asheville (WKSF 99.9; WTPT 93.9; WMIT 99.9, and one of 2 from Chattanooga, one from Lexington and the Greenville SC market (WLZT-98.1). Translators are changing some of this.

Dayton, Ohio-
Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus, Lima, some Indianapolis. One Toledo station (92.5) in the far north suburbs.

Where I grew up in west Central Ohio.
Fort Wayne, Dayton, Windsor/Detroit. Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Cleveland
TV: Dayton (2 and 7), the Fort Wayne and Lima UHF. Snowy but usually there: The Cincinnati, Cincinnati and Columbus VHFs.

Lafayette Indiana:
Lafayette, Indianapolis, Chicago, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne

.

Did you ever get at least occasional appearances from South Bend, and the Champaign stations (WCIA-3, WICD-15, WCCU-27) in Lafayette? Especially with WICD and WCCU's transmitters halfway between Champaign/Urbana and Danville (plus when WCIA was on analog 3).

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

I do remember in the late 70s seeing movies on KPLR when visiting my sister who lived not far away from Macomb in Keokuk IA...if KPLR was on Keokuk's cable, chances are they might have been on Macomb's, but that's just an assumption on my part.

And probably back in the day when KSD/KSDK-5 had the exclusive rights to St. Louis Cardinals baseball (instead of KPLR) there might have been some Macomb-area fans aiming their antennas toward Shrewsberry, MO (KSDK's transmitter site) to attempt to pick up games.

And speaking of Macomb, it was the home (since 1983) of a major DXer, Jeff Kadet. Sadly, unbeknownst to me until this morning, he passed away in November 2014:

http://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/article/20141125/OBITUARIES/141129603

 

[KML0224]

In New Britain, CT, roughly 9 miles southwest of Hartford:

Regular range on FM is usually Springfield, MA (especially WAQY-FM 102.1, a.k.a. Rock 102), New Haven and the Bridgeport market, with WEBE-FM 107.9 of Westport (a.k.a. WEBE-108), being their best signal. Depending on the radio used, I can get WRKI-FM 95.1 of Brookfield/Danbury (a.k.a. I-95) and a little of the station going by JAM'N 107.7 from the New London radio market...when local WFCS-FM 107.7 of New Britain (Central Connecticut State University) is off the air.

Regular daytime range on AM is WBZ-AM 1030 from Boston, WHYN-AM 560 from Springfield, MA, WPRO-AM 630 from Providence, RI on occasion and all of the major New York City flamethrowers, especially WFAN-AM 660 and WCBS-AM 880.

 

[schmave]

I can go through a few markets where I've lived.
First, my current location in Knoxville TN (and working in Sevierville).
Primarily Knoxville, a couple from Asheville (WKSF 99.9; WTPT 93.9; WMIT 99.9, and one of 2 from Chattanooga, one from Lexington and the Greenville SC market (WLZT-98.1). Translators are changing some of this.

Dayton, Ohio-
Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus, Lima, some Indianapolis. One Toledo station (92.5) in the far north suburbs.

Where I grew up in west Central Ohio.
Fort Wayne, Dayton, Windsor/Detroit. Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Cleveland
TV: Dayton (2 and 7), the Fort Wayne and Lima UHF. Snowy but usually there: The Cincinnati, Cincinnati and Columbus VHFs.

Lafayette Indiana:
Lafayette, Indianapolis, Chicago, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne

.

I was just thinking that not far southwest of Columbus, you can hear most Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati stations quite well around Washington Court House, Xenia, etc.
Up in your home area, Dayton, Lima and Fort Wayne populate the radio dials nicely, and of course WTVN, WJR, WLW, CKLW and even the Chicago 50Ks come in (some of them 24/7).

 

[gr8oldies]

I had limited ability to do TV DX from Lafayette but I had some access to an antenna, including the monitor antenna when I worked at WLFI...a UHF on the STL tower at the studio building. WICD -15 came in like a local on that antenna. I don't remember 27 and we didn't have a VHF antenna set up. I'm sure I picked up WCIA with rabbit ears a time or two. After sign off and before sign on, there were other 18s we could pick up, namely Lexington and Milwaukee. I'm sure we got South Bend (sometimes Fort Wayne).

 

[gr8oldies]

Jamestown and Cedarville were nice sweet spots for getting all 3 markets. Xenia, not so much with all the translators now.

I was just thinking that not far southwest of Columbus, you can hear most Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati stations quite well around Washington Court House, Xenia, etc.
Up in your home area, Dayton, Lima and Fort Wayne populate the radio dials nicely, and of course WTVN, WJR, WLW, CKLW and even the Chicago 50Ks come in (some of them 24/7).

 

[rbrucecarter5]

I would submit Central Florida / Orlando as a possible best. Not only is there high population density and quite a few markets fairly closely spaced, but the flat terrain and frequent sea breeze fronts make the FM dial come alive. On a given night you can get the Orlando market, Tampa St. Pete, Sarasota, Ft Meyers, West Palm, Ft. Lauderdale, Melbourne Palm Bay Cocoa, Daytona Beach, Jacksonville, Ocala Gainesville - all will usually be present on the Orlando dial

 

[Gregg.]

From my family's lakeside cottage on the New Hampshire-Maine border, about 100 miles north of Boston, you hear all the full-power FM stations from

--Portland ME
--Portsmouth NH
--Manchester NH
--Concord/Lakes Region NH

Plus several of the Boston-area FMs come in nearly every night and early morning. I was able to hear Howard Stern nearly every day on 104.1 WBCN (now WBMX) when that station originally ran him in the evening (8pm-Midnight) and then switched him to live in morning drive (6-10am). Some Boston area FMs get stepped on by local stations one notch away but there are no local or nearby stations on 103.9 or 104.3, so 104.1 Boston is easy to hear at night or in the morning before the sun is too high.

 

[Prescott Joe]

Along the Eastern shores of Lake Erie, near Dunkirk-Fredonia, you can hear
stations from Buffalo, N.Y., Erie, P.A., Jamestown, N.Y., Ashtabula, O.H.,
London Ontario, Hamilton Ontario, Kitchener Ontario, and Toronto Ontario
and some smaller single market stations day and night.....

 

[Ai4i]

For AM radio, I would firstly suggest Route twelve,
connecting the outer banks islands of North Carolina.
First runner-up would go to New Orleans for US stations.
Brownsville is good for US and Mexican stations,
as would be the northern coast of Yucatan.

If we want to include European AM, FM, TV, and DAB, Directional antennæ
in a small elevated country such as Belgium or "Luxy" would likely
yield networks and independent stations in the most number of languages:
English, Deutsche, Français, Lëtzebuergesch, and Nederlands.