Mike Westfall WDX6O wrote:

Brenda Ann Dyer wrote:
"John Byrns" wrote in message
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The term "local stations" as used above has also been used recently in
several other threads. I am curious what the readers of this forum would
consider to be a "local station"?


I have no idea what they use to describe them now...

The local "graveyard" stations are on 1230, 1240, 1340, 1400, 1450 and
1490. Nearly all are 1000 Watts day and night.

--
Mike Westfall, N6KUY, WDX6O


Yep, ye olde "local channel" stations as they used to call them. If
you lived on top of one, it was fine in the daytime. But anywhere in
the USA I've ever been, those frequencies are hash at night.

What defines "local stations" in a practical "everyday" sense as far
as reception goes is a good question. I think everyone would have their
own definition of that. I would confine it to mean stations clearly
receiveable, at or near full modulation, in the *daytime*. With a good
MW receiver and antenna, many, many stations become, in effect, "local"
stations at night, especially in the wintertime.

When I was growing up in Detroit 40 years ago, the two most distant
stations that came in clearly, if dimly (but no fade or distortion) were
in Marine City, MI (50 miles away) a 5,000W station, and Saline, MI (33
miles away) a one or two thousand watt station, best as I recall. That
was daytime listening. At night, WBZ from Boston was easy listening,
night after night, but would hardly qualify as a "local" station to the
Detroit area. The magic of nightime is was hooked me on DX in the first
place.

Yeah, good "bull session" question.

Tony