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.
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> 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.
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>> Talk about good, fun, and high- quality radio listening!!
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>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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>> 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.
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>>> Take care.
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>>>> On 10/31/2013 4:02 PM, Kevin Minor wrote:
>>>> Hi.
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>>>> 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=
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY
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