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> On Nov 1, 2013, at 1:56 AM, Ron Canazzi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Anthony,
> 
> I also listen digitally in clear clean audio, but there was something 
> exciting about listening to a broadcast AM station from a long distance 
> back in the day.
> 
>> On 10/31/2013 10:36 PM, Anthony Vece wrote:
>> Unfortunately, those days are long gone.
>> Now a days, I listen to everything on my iPhone.
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my Verizon iPhone 5s!
>> 
>>> On Oct 31, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Tom Behler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Ron:
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>>> I've probably brought this up on the list a number of times before, but I=20=
>>> fondly remember the days of AM radio when growing up in south-Central=20
>>> Pennsylvania in the 1960's.
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>>> Favorite night-time stations back then were, of course, WKBW from Buffalo,=
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>>> as well as CKLW from Winsor, and WLS and WCFL from Chicago.
>>> =20
>>> Talk about good, fun, and high- quality radio listening!!
>>> =20
>>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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>>> ----- Original Message -----=20
>>> From: "Ron Canazzi" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:17 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Baseball on the Radio Part 3
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>>>> Hi Group,
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>>>> I live in the Buffalo, New York area and how well I remember tuning to
>>>> get AM DX.  I could go in to great detail about which radios I used and
>>>> how many and under what circumstances I received which stations, but
>>>> that would be very involved and would take a very large post.  I will
>>>> say that the farthest station I received would have been KFI Los Angeles
>>>> at 640 kHz.  I used to be able to receive them after midnight during the
>>>> winters when a station in Ohio left the air.  Two things happened to
>>>> make this impossible since the early 1980's.  The Ohio station went 24
>>>> hours and Castro decided to put a 50 KW station on 640.  I don't
>>>> remember which came first, but gone are the days of receiving KFI since
>>>> then.
>>>> =20
>>>> Take care.
>>>> =20
>>>>> On 10/31/2013 4:02 PM, Kevin Minor wrote:
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>> =20
>>>>> I enjoyed the article about listening to baseball on the radio.  I=20
>>>>> remember
>>>>> lying in bed when I was 9 or 10 years old, tuning the AM band to see how=
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>>>>> far
>>>>> away I could hear.  I was in Boulder, CO, and I heard KNX in Los Angeles=
>> .=20
>>>>> I
>>>>> moved to Cincinnati a couple of years later, and heard KMOX broadcasting=
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>>>>> a
>>>>> St. Louis Blues hockey game.  The Blues were the first NHL team I really=
>>>>> followed.  The farthest AM station distance wise that I've heard from
>>>>> Lexington, Kentucky was KOA in Denver, at least I think it was, because I=
>>>>> remember the frequency it's on, and I heard a broadcast on that channel.=
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>>>>> Of
>>>>> course this was at night.  During the daytime, the farthest station I've=
>>>>> heard was from Fairmont, West Virginia.  I heard WLW in Cincinnati, over=
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>>>>> 200
>>>>> miles away.  At present I'm not in a good location to do long distance=20=
>>>>> radio
>>>>> listening.  I use the internet and XM to hear sporting events.  I miss=20=
>>>>> when
>>>>> I could tune my radio to hear stations a good distance away.  Good=20
>>>>> article.
>>>>> =20
>>>>> Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY
>>>>> [log in to unmask]
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