"--exray--" wrote in message
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Ian Smith wrote:

From here in Scotland, managed Beijing, China on 1521kHz at winter
sunset via polar route. Got to be at least 4000 miles. Probably high
power
transmitter.

Scotland to Beijing = 4925 miles. Nice catch.

-BM

Thanks, but all credit due to sunspot minimum causing weird MW
conditions here at 56 deg. north. Could get skip during day, every day, even
at noon. A lot of Europeans came rolling in which you would normally only
expect at night, including Czech station with local-level signal steady as a
rock. Got Beijing at 1pm and every hour thereafter until 8pm. Of course,
sunset here about 3.30pm at Christmas.
Will be resurrecting the old loop antenna soon for this winter season.
Managed at least 120 north American AM stations years ago when I had the
classic teenage insomnia. A bit harder to do now, I must admit!