On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 9:10:58 -0500, David wrote
(in message ):

Used to be able to get WLS in L.A. until St. George fired up.

? When I was a teenager I uswed to listen to WLS (World's Largest Store) but
it was in Chicago grin.

This was late 50's, early 60's (S-38B).


Gray



On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:25:14 -0400, --exray-- wrote:

Ronald wrote:
I enjoy listening to talk radio shows at night but find my current
Radio Shack unit lacking. I live in Malibu, CA and would enjoy
listening to talk shows out of New York, Chicago and other cities with
great hosts. CC Crane offers the Sangean CCRadio Plus for $165 but
before spending this much on an AM radio does anyone have first hand
experience with it. Is there any real need to spend $165 for an AM
radio.

Sorry, you're not going to be able to listen to New York and Chicago
from LA on any AM radio.
I hate to say it but your best option is live audio on the internet.

-Bill

"CW" wrote in
news:vPnkb.815189$Ho3.223307@sccrnsc03:

It doesn't matter what radio you get, you are not going to be able to
get what you are looking for on the AM broadcast band. The long
distance reception you may be reading about here are rare events and
are usually audible just well enough to identify and then not for long.
At night, you should be able to get as far north as Washington state on
a fairly regular basis but during the day, forget it.



I agree. The best I could do from here in L.A. is ID a few Canadian
stations, but the signals aren't very listenable. I could pick up a rare
signal east of the Mississippi River (KY and OH), but not much further.

--

300 to 400 miles is possible in the daytime..................here in
Chicago, I can hear WLW, on 700kHz, all day. Even when I was living in Cedar
Rapids, I could still pull in that station, along with CFCO, in Chatham,
Ontario, on 630kHz. On 610kHz, I could pull in either Kansas City, Mo. or
Colombus, Ohio. This was daytime reception. Back here in Chicago, I can pull
in the 524kHz beacon from Iowa City. Other daytime stations are 760kHz,
Detroit, 810kHz, Kansas City, Mo, 830kHz, WCCO, and 870kHz, Grand Rapids,
Michigan.
Once you get a system that can hear down into the atmospheric noise, things
change. Once, at a hamfest at the Amana Colonies, back in Iowa, I laid down
210 feet of wire on the ground. On the LW band, every few kHz there were
stations. On MW, all of the Chicago stations came in with no noise. WLW was
coming in at S9 +10dB.

Pete

--exray-- wrote in message
...
Gregg wrote:

Sorry, you're not going to be able to listen to New York and Chicago
from LA on any AM radio.
I hate to say it but your best option is live audio on the internet.

-Bill


Chainsawed computer box coming up next?

Hehehehehe ;-)

If I say you can sit in LA and listen to New York on AM on it would you
buy it?
Hey, if it weren't for that darn fibre-optic cable you could dial a
number in New York City and get a solid copper wire connection to use as
an antenna!


:-)

Ronald wrote:

I enjoy listening to talk radio shows at night but find my current
Radio Shack unit lacking. I live in Malibu, CA and would enjoy
listening to talk shows out of New York, Chicago and other cities with
great hosts. CC Crane offers the Sangean CCRadio Plus for $165 but
before spending this much on an AM radio does anyone have first hand
experience with it. Is there any real need to spend $165 for an AM
radio.

First off, you're unlikely to hear anything east of the Rocky Mountains
except under rare propagation conditions. Likewise, people in Chicago
can't hear LA. The Rockies seem to act as a giant barrier for AM BCB
signals, cutting off the West from the East.

"tommyknocker" wrote in message
...
First off, you're unlikely to hear anything east of the Rocky Mountains
except under rare propagation conditions. Likewise, people in Chicago
can't hear LA. The Rockies seem to act as a giant barrier for AM BCB
signals, cutting off the West from the East.


From my (former) home in Portland, OR, I could hear fairly regularly KMOX in
St. Louis, WWL in New Orleans and KSTP in Minneapolis/St. Paul. No, I never
did hear anything any farther east than those. Always good reception, though
from TX, OK and points south of there.

The high and higher mountains behind Malibu, where the originator of this
thread lives, probably don't help, either.

Bill, K5BY

Sorry, you're not going to be able to listen to New York and Chicago
from LA on any AM radio.
I hate to say it but your best option is live audio on the internet.

There you go, best advice in the whole thread. ;-)



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Try a Radio Shack loop antenna (Or C Crane Justice antenna)
That will help . . .

Dan,
You 'should' know better. NOT for what the original poster was asking. No
way.

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WShoots1 wrote:

The high and higher mountains behind Malibu, where the originator of this
thread lives, probably don't help, either.

Bill, K5BY

There are differing opinions on whether mountains have any significant
effect on MW or HF (shortwave) reception. The ground (soil) conditions
may have more influence than the terrain.


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There are differing opinions on whether mountains have any significant
effect on MW or HF (shortwave) reception. The ground (soil) conditions may have
more influence than the terrain.

I cannot disagree with anything you wrote. G It's one of things that make a
regular search more meaningful. For starters, he should seek out that 50kw
Dallas station, WBAP on 820 kHz, mentioned in another thread. If that blow
torch can't be heard in Malibu at night, then the Rockies, if not the closer
mountains, will be the boundary for easterly stations.

Bill, K5BY