Farthest Stations You've Ever Picked Up (channels, station, music, AM)

[David674UT]

I caught KDLA from LA on AM from Metro Atlanta in the early 80s and I caught a Christian station on Turks and Caicos Islands about 10 years ago.

[catman]

Those are good catches. Do you recall what frequency the Turks & Caicos station was on?

[David674UT]

Originally Posted by catman

Those are good catches. Do you recall what frequency the Turks & Caicos station was on?

630 am,that Station got wiped out by Hurricane Katrina and never rebuilt. Now,630 AM is a Cuban station of the "Beautiful Music" genre(Elevator Music). It's called Radio Encyclopedia.

[David674UT]

I caught 1120 KMOX in St Louis at two in the afternoon back in 1988,one hell of a catch

[catman]

Yes, it is at that time of day. I can hear WBAP 820 AM for 300+ miles in the afternoon when I go on a trip.

[IBrakeforTailgaters]

Where I live now, we can pick up a prominent radio station in Greenville, SC, which is about an hour and a half away.

Coming from my boyfriend's family's beach house on the NC coast at night, we were able to pick up an R&B station from Fayetteville a good two hours away from us.

Lastly, when I was in undergrad down in Columbia, SC, we could pick up Charlotte stations at night...about an hour and a half up the road. Sometimes I really needed that as I missed home.

Our waves don't go as far as some of yours from the sounds of it.

[catman]

Assuming you are talking about AM broadcast band, you should be able to get some of the 50kW stations in the Midwest without much trouble, and probably some in the Noertheast that are more difficult for me in TX.

[Marv101]

During a recent trip to Palm Springs, KNBR/San Francisco & KALL/Salt Lake City came in very well even after sunrise.

From LA, I've heard plenty of those 'AM flamethrowers' over the years, from cities such as Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, Denver, Sacramento, Casper, Wyoming, Chicago, Nashville & San Antonio.

Many of those 1-A stations (50,000 watts) can routinely be heard in 35+ states after dark; if you've ever driven overnight from say, Denver to either Omaha (485 miles) or Kansas City (605 miles), you'll really know what I mean.

[tvdxer]

My normal night-time AM dial in Duluth:

540 Regina
550 St. Louis
560 Duluth
570 Yankton
580 La Crosse
600
630 Chatham
640 various
650 Nashville
660 past various, now hash from WSCR's HD Radio signal
670 Chicago
680 hash from Chicago, St. Joseph MO
690 hash from Cinncinnatti, Montreal
700 Cincinatti
710 local
720 Chicago
730 Dauphin, sometimes Mexico City
740 Toronto
750 Atlanta
760 Detroit
770 hash from Chicago, sometimes New York
780 Chicago
790 Fargo, various
800 Various
810 Schenectady, Kansas City
820 London (ON), Port Arthur
830 Minneapolis
840 Louisville
850 Denver
860 Montreal
870 New Orleans
880 New York
890 Chicago
900 Hamilton (ON), various
910 Iowa City, various
920 Faribault, various
930 Aitkin
940 Yorkton, various
950 Detroit, various
960 various
970 Local
980 various
990 Winnipeg
1000 Chicago
1010 Hash from Chicago, New York, Toronto
1020 Hash from Chicago and Boston, Pittsburgh
1030 Hash from Pittsburgh and Des Moines, Boston
1040 Hash from Boston, Des Moines
1050 Somewhere in Canada
1060 Hash from Madison, Philadelphia
1070 Madison
1080 Hash from Madison, Chicago, Dallas, etc.
1090 Hash from Cleveland, Little Rock
1100 Cleveland, hash from Omaha
1110 Omaha, hash from St. Louis and Cleveland
1120 St. Louis, hash from Omaha and Minneapolis
1130 Minneapolis, hash from St. Louis
1140 Richmond and somewhere in Canada
1150 Salina, etc.
1160 Chicago
1170 Davenport
1180 Rochester
1190 Fort Wayne
1200 Chicago
1210 Cincinatti
etc.

[Canes2006Champs]

Originally Posted by IBrakeforTailgaters

Where I live now, we can pick up a prominent radio station in Greenville, SC, which is about an hour and a half away.

Coming from my boyfriend's family's beach house on the NC coast at night, we were able to pick up an R&B station from Fayetteville a good two hours away from us.

Lastly, when I was in undergrad down in Columbia, SC, we could pick up Charlotte stations at night...about an hour and a half up the road. Sometimes I really needed that as I missed home.

Our waves don't go as far as some of yours from the sounds of it.

B93.7 by any chance? I also pick up Magic 98.9 pretty good

I'm also in Charlotte and I've picked up Coast 97.3 in Wilmington a couple of times despite 97.3 WKBC in nearby Statesville

Mix 101.5 from Raleigh

While in Myrtle Beach a few years ago I sat on the balcony of the hotel I was at and with a radio I was able to pick up a station from Jacksonville, Florida, but for the life of me I can't remember what station it was, they were at the time playing Phil Collins "Against All Odds" so I think it was an Adult Contemporary Station.