I have done that lots of times also. i am blind and started messing around
with radio way back in the early 60s.

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Scott in Baltimore wrote:

Hey, I'm talking 60 miles barefoot ground-wave on Jay's antenna tonight.
That's stuff is fun.

Got some good groundwave going on! Some Tuesday nights I can hear
PA and VA. I've even talked into DE from the mobile. 2x455's talk!

Other nights, I've got buzzing and static. I've noticed that I
hear a certain atmospheric noise before the skip starts. I'm
assuming that 10 meter propagation will be very similar to what
I've experienced on 11 meters. If so, I'll be killer in 10 meter
contests. Hell, I've got 27 years to go on.

It's neat that some nights 11 meters carries real well, other nights
2 meters goes real far and I've even had both bands hot one night.
I was a DXing fool! Try to say 104 on one radio and KB3xxx on the other!