"HFguy" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:

The former Art Bell show is a nice, and free, way to fill up the overnght
hours.

And since nearly nobody listens to that show on skywave, the need for
many hundreds of affiliates is real. If those stations did not have Coast
to Coast, they would be automated playing music.

I was one of those 'nearly nobodys' that occasionally listened to Bell on
a distant station via skywave because their wasn't a local one for me. He
was on a 50-Kw regional clear channel station about 50-miles from me but I
can no longer rely on that station for good nighttime reception because of
the co-channel (skywave) interference which started a few years ago. We
both know why that happened.

Maybe you know, but I have no idea unless you are feeling like sharing.