BobOnTheJob
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« on: April 13, 2012, 05:17:17 PM » |
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Having just put up a 400' longwire and acquired a Drake R8, I think I've finally figured out that my farthest regular catch is 5KW WMT 600 Cedar Rapids,IA at a little over 350 air miles--in spite of WTVN's obnoxious IBOC hiss at 180 miles! Second place goes to WKBN 570 Youngstown,OH at 320 miles or so. There's something audible behind Mt Washington,KY on 1040...have yet to determine if that is WHO Des Moines,IA. If so, that would beat WMT. I'm 30 miles south of Indianapolis. What are your top 2 or 3 regular stations distance wise?
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Scott Fybush
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« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2012, 05:49:56 PM » |
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From Rochester, I can get WJR all day long. That's just under 300 miles, and much of the path goes over Lake Erie. Second place is probably CFCO 630 from Chatham ON.
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« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2012, 06:18:08 PM » |
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Not worth trying from here in Nashville, ground conductivity is too low to make it worthwhile.... probably the best daytime regular is 640 Memphis at about 180 miles.
WLW came in all day in Madison, Wis.. That's about 300 miles as well.
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« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2012, 07:02:26 PM » |
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For me a tie between WSCR 670, WGN 720, and WBBM 780 Chicago from Vermilion, OH at approx. 300 miles away. Out of these, WGN has a slightly stronger signal. Been trying for WTMJ on 620 but WTVN's IBOC as noted is a bit too much.
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« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2012, 08:18:20 PM » |
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From the near north Chicago suburbs CFCO used to be my farthest regular daytime catch until WTMJ's IBOC killed it. Now its WLW or KTRS.
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« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2012, 08:25:45 PM » |
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As long as I have DXed, this thread is something I had not even considered!
As far as today, in 2012, I will have to get back with y'all for my answer.
Back in (I guess) the 90s, Radio Vision Cristiana AM 530 in Turks & Caicos was my farthest regular daytime AM...maybe a distance of 750 miles? With much lower power now, they are not even heard here now.
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« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2012, 08:46:10 PM » |
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This goes back about twenty years but daytime catches using a GE Superadio II and its internal antenna from Owensboro, KY include CKLW Windsor WVOK Birmingham and WTVN Columbus when I could null out WRUS Russelville.
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« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2012, 08:54:19 PM » |
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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.
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« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2012, 08:58:18 PM » |
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Here in Central Virginia, under just the right conditions, I've pulled in several NY blowtorches during the day for a few days consecutively, but as a regular long distance daytimer, probably DC or Richmond is about the farthest I've gotten anything regular.
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« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2012, 09:00:31 PM » |
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Daytime here with the water path just S of Charleston (James Island) I can get very long distances. WIOD Miami at 475 miles or so is in most of the time daytime. WQAM is under 560 from Columbia, and 760 West Palm Beach also comes in decently.
570 CMCA also comes in well daytime most of the time (probably farthest), and I can hear 820 Tampa with my radio at 375 miles, over the entire FL peninsula.
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