"WB2JKX" wrote in message
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Dave Pitzer wrote in message
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I have a CC Radio Plus (Sangean) AM/FM/TV/WX radio (from C. Crane Co.) I
enjoy broadcasr band DX'ing and this radion does a super job with just
it's
built-in ferrite antenna. I have logged AM BC stations from practically
every state east of the Mississippi.

Best reception is, of course, at night. But.... for some reason WABC
(New
York City) comes in poorly at night even though it's xmitter is only 80
miles away. The signal fades to next to nothing and then increases to
very
loud but extremely distorted then will be loud and clear for a while.
(During the day this station's signal is fine.) On the same evening,
stations in Georgia (WSB, Atlanta), Illonois (WGN, Chicago), Michigan
(WJR,
Detroit), etc., etc. come in fine 90% of the time.

Do I need an external antenna for the closer WABC?????

Thanks,

Dave Pitzer
Pocono Lake, PA
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You're still close enough to receive the groundwave signal, but at night
skywave signal will cause constructive and destructive interference as the
phase relationship between the twoslowly changes. I experience the same
thing in NW NJ.

One NJ station that I can't remember at the moment told me that I was the
Southern-most reception report they had (Princeton to Virginia Beach, Va).
They change from 100,000w daytime to 1,000w nighttime. Normally a powerful
Florida station overpowers their transmission.

Jack