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:
> 
> Ron:
> 
> I've probably brought this up on the list a number of times before, but I 
> fondly remember the days of AM radio when growing up in south-Central 
> Pennsylvania in the 1960's.
> 
> Favorite night-time stations back then were, of course, WKBW from Buffalo, 
> as well as CKLW from Winsor, and WLS and WCFL from Chicago.
> 
> Talk about good, fun, and high- quality radio listening!!
> 
> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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
> 
> 
>> 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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>>