Farthest Daytime AM Regular

[cd637299]

^ This guy's in the right spot! 

I was in Myrtle Beach in 2006-ish, and heard both WIOD and WEFL 760 in my home market.  760 with only 3000 watts daytime really gets out.

I was at Cape Hatteras NC in Nov 1997....the stuff you could hear in the daytime---just wow.

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[pbf1]

Two largest daytime land coverage AMs in North America:  KFYR and KXMR, both in Bismarck, ND.

[Lawppy]

From Coldwater, MI

365 days a year-
WHAS 840 Louisville, KY- 250 miles or so

Winter months-
CFZM 740 Toronto, ON- 300 miles

[Cincinnati Kid]

Except near locations that have a station at 690 kc or 710 kc., WLW from Cincinnati can usually be picked up for several hundred miles.

[Schroedingers Cat]

In SE MI, before all the noise began overwhelming the band, I would hear, with a long wire antenna and a preamp, several barely audible groundwave signals.

As I recall, they were:

WSM 650
WHAS 840
KDKA 1020
WWVA 1170
WHAM 1180

At the 5 kW level:

WGR 550
WKRC 550
WIND 560 with Monroe, MI off.
WKBN 570
WTVN 610
WTMJ 620
WAIT 820
WOSU 820

[Schroedingers Cat]

WTMJ 620...that used to come in here, but when they upped their power, it got weaker here. And then WTVN's IBOC wiped out any chance of it. 540 WAUK Jackson,WI's 400 watts once made it into here regularly at 285 miles but at some point, Clarksville,TN on 540 upped their power to 4KW...it handily owns the frequency at 200 miles now.

WTMJ had to reduce or maintain overlap with WTUV 620 near Louisville.  Since they moved closer, that had to be less than the 5 kW omni closer to Milwaukee.  This is the only direction that WTMJ radiates less than the equivalent of the former 5 kW omni facilities.  Since much of the signal in that direction is over Lake Michigan, it has less service impact, but I think parts of the Chicago area also get less signal.

 

[radioman148]

SC, no 670 or 720 out of Chicago in SE Michigan? I would've thought at least one of Chicago's 50kws would've made it there during the day. I know WBBM has competition from Saginaw.

[gar fla]

Here in Tampa, it's WWL at 480 miles away.

Out at the beach 20 miles away, it's KTRH at 775 miles away.

 

[Kansas Guy]

Farthest regular daytime AM stations from eastern Kansas are:
1) WNAX 570am Yankton SD 309 miles
2) KRVN 880am Lexington NE 298 miles
3) KWMT 540am Fort Dodge IA  249 miles
4) KTIC 840am West Point NE  228 miles
5) KFI 640am Ames IA  222 miles

[ddsparxx]

For me in northern VA, the farthest regular AMs are WNIS 790 in Norfolk and WPHT 1210 in Philadelphia both about 180 miles away with a 5 kW signal. Lousy ground conductivity around here means shorter distances. The farthest stations with listenable signals are WHP Harrisburg, PA and WFRB 560 Frostburg, MD, both about 90 miles away. Both with 5 kW daytime signals.