Jack wrote:

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:13:47 -0400, Tony Meloche
wrote:



Michael wrote:

Hiya..

Any offerings regarding the longest distance MW, AM broadcast that you ever
got ???

Mine, here in NJ, has been: 580 KMJ in Fresno, CA. It's a 50KW station
that I have been able to hear a few times during exceptional MW conditions.
I had to use SSB, NB, several tweaks to the pbt and my "Frankenstein"
antenna, but I was able to hear the station ID.

Any other war stories out there ???
--
Respectfully,

Michael



Actually posted one of mine a few weeks ago here, but my two best
catches have been (the station now known as) KNUS in Denver, CO from my
room at home in Detroit when I was a kid (1964). A 5,000W station from
1200 miles away. I still remember that late afternoon (KNUS was on the
grayline at the time I got the reception).

I also pulled CMBV from Wajay, Cuba not long ago, which was my first
foreign (excluding Canada) AM broadcast. That's about 1350 miles from
where I live now, but it is listed as a 500,000W station! But it was a
heck of a kick to know I was listening to an ordinary AM station from
another part of the world.

Tony


I lived in upstate New York when I was a kid and actively DX'ed BCB.
Here's a couple I recall.

There were two high-power Cuban stations on the lower part of the BCB
that I used to pick up in the almost every night in early/mid 70's.
(Anybody recall the ones I mean?)

I also used to listen to KSL in Salt Lake City, Utah every night back
then. The fact that it was a clear-channel 50 KW'er helped.

There were many more that I can't remember. Conditions were good
those years, and got it into my head to attempt to receive at least
one DX station on each assigned AM BCB frequency. I checked them off
on xerox copies of White's Radio Log. (Wish they were still
publishing it)...



You had to love White's! The last time it was published - and it was
a "resurection" - was in 1983, so far as I know, by a fellow named Don
Gabree and his wife (or maybe daughter) Lari Gabree. He had input from
such people as Don Jensen and Glen Hauser in doing it, and it was
supposed to be an "annual", but AFAIK that was it. I still have it
though it's hideously outdated now. The WHAM logs are good, but just
not the same as grabbin' that well-thumbed Whites
and flippin' the pages . . .

Tony


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