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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>>
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