Hi Group,
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.
Take care.
On 10/31/2013 4:02 PM, Kevin Minor wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I enjoyed the article about listening to baseball on the radio. I remember
> lying in bed when I was 9 or 10 years old, tuning the AM band to see how far
> away I could hear. I was in Boulder, CO, and I heard KNX in Los Angeles. I
> moved to Cincinnati a couple of years later, and heard KMOX broadcasting 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. 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 200
> miles away. At present I'm not in a good location to do long distance radio
> listening. I use the internet and XM to hear sporting events. I miss when
> I could tune my radio to hear stations a good distance away. Good article.
>
> Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY
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