I grew up in San Francisco, and thought it was a big deal when I could hear 
the Dodgers on KFI. it was a labor of love because the signal was so weak 
and faded in and out.
Andy


-----Original Message----- 
From: Anthony Vece
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 7:36 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Baseball on the Radio Part 3

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 
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> 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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