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Now a days, you can listen to live streams from radio stations from all over the world which, BTW, I find fascinating even when I don't necessarily speak the language.
What's the farthest station you've ever picked up....
on AM?
on FM?
on Weather Radio?
On AM, it would have to be 530 RVCI (Radio Voz Cristiana Internacional) from Turks & Caicos, about 2,110 miles away. I used to hear it regularly on winter nights with my ICF-2010.
On FM, one has to make the distinction between tropo and E-Skip. Via tropo, I've logged 94.7 KHBZ Oklahoma City, OK, "The Razor". At the same time I had signals from Missouri, Illinois, and Nebraska, and closer by, pouring in like crazy. E-Skip is an entirely different mode of signal propagation that uses the E-Layer and normally bounces signals distances of 800 (but not less) to 1,300 miles. I've heard a Tucson-area station 1,410 miles via that.
On WX, the farthest I've ever gotten was WXM251, from South Shore, SD, 251 miles away.
That would be WWWE, Cleveland --- way back in the day - to get the Cavaliers games on the radio.
That's at least 300 miles away.
Western MN to West Virginia. I picked up WKKW on the FM dial tonight. It faded in and out a couple times and I lost it. It must have been a good evening for FM DXing.
I'm in western Ky and used to just sit and scroll through the AM radio dial in the car to see what I could pick up. Listened to WSB from Atlanta from time to time and, in winter, could pick up one from northern Iowa (can't remember the town). My cousin used to have a program on WBAP, Dallas Ft. Worth, and my dad could pick it up with a radio sitting in the basement window as long as you didn't touch it. lol
In my early years, WLS in chicago was on everybody's car radio at night and in the dorms at a college near here. I can't remember the stations right off hand but I have some AM and FM stations I listen to on roku at night.
When I was a kid living in Massachusetts some times late at night I got WWVA from Wheeling, West Virginia.
I could sometimes get Radio Moscow from Russia.
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