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I never heard KOA again. The furthest AM DX I normally get here in northeastern Ohio at night is KMOX in St. Louis. I used to be able to hear WBAP in Dallas, but haven't heard from them in some time; maybe the antenna-pattern restrictions at night have something to do with it. Another station I hear quite often at night is WCCO 830 in Minneapolis, after a daytimer about 80 miles east of here on that frequency signs off for the night; then there's WHAS 840 in Louisville, Kentucky, WWL-AM 870 in New Orleans (the first time I ever heard that station was during Hurricane Katrina, when WWL was in emergency mode), WCBS 880 New York, WLS Talk Radio 890 in Chicago, WWJ 950 Detroit, WCFL 1000 Chicago, WBZ 1030 Boston, KYW 1060 Philadelphia ... and the list goes on. I have a Zenith C845 high-performance radio with an RF stage and two IF stages on both AM and FM, so I'll have to tune around on it some night and see what else I can snag. Even with the built-in Wavemagnet antenna (an outdoor wire is out of the question, as I live in an apartment building), some day I should be able to hear stations way out west, like Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, California ... if the conditions are ever right for that kind of DX reception from the eastern Great Lakes. I wonder how nowhereman1966 in the Pittsburgh area managed to snag a Los Angeles AM station on his car radio a few months ago (his post describing that is somewhere in this thread) using only a 31" car antenna, and if it ever happened again. The AM propagation conditions must have been just right that day or night, not unlike what the conditions must have been like the night I heard KOA in Denver.
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Furthest for me was picking up AM 1140 WRVA out of Richmond, Virginia. I also get one from Texas once in a while but I forgot the call letters and numbers. I get these on my 1963 Admiral clock radio by my bed, been good to me for 11 years now. Only changed 2 tubes so far. One when I got it and one recently. I also can pick em up on my Zenith radios. Not so much on my transistor ones, just the '63 Sony in the bathroom.
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I know it's not vintage, but my little Degen (Kaito to you!) 1103 regularly gets G and EI (Ireland) amateurs on the 80m band during the gray line. This is just using the whip antenna. Good little radio, hears the NY aero weather every evening on 6604kHz (that's evening here, say midnight in LA!)
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I can barely get local stations. The hill I live on blocks most of them out =(
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Back in the '70's, in northeast NJ, I once picked up a Jesuscaster from Iowa, somewhere near 1500KHz. Very rare to hear a "K" station deep here in "W" land. Though "C" (Canadian) stations are fairly easy.
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"Duluth? Why you can get Terra del Fuego!" We moved to VT in 1958 and used to listen to WOR out of NYC. The amazing part was that it was Jean Shepard that we listened to. Wish I could do that now.
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Mind you, I would still like to see a shoot-out between a R390A against a WJ HF1000 on sheer performance, not the bells and whistles. Best wishes for 2009 to everybody.
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An old car radio running off a 12v battery or a converter can be a great AM DX rig, since they were optimized to work with that car whip antenna. Hook up any kind of longwire and the results can be impressive. Of course, tubes are a fun way to go...just have to block out the vibrator buzz!!
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Just came in from the car...4:15 CST. 700 WLW, Cincinnatti, WSCR, WGN & WBBM Chicago all booming in...with the sun still up in W. Central MN! No WLS...co-channel in NDak with a big signal hasn't cut power yet. I love AM in the winter!
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This makes me think back to a day in 07 when there was IMPRESSIVE skip happening the whole day. The skip was so bad that local stations were being blown off of the FM band like crazy. Not sure if it was or not, but I think I had a Miami, FL station on 100.7 FM up near Hardy, AR that day, that hung with me the entire way back to my home, on a cheap durabrand car stereo no less! Another night, I had DTV skip, receiving WLMT-DT, WPTY-DT from Memphis, TN. No digital from WMC at the time sadly, or WREG.
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Thumb through this forum for my post on Battery Vibrators. I have my AM car radio pictured there, which is 100% tube. (6BE6, 6BA6, 6AV6, 6AQ5, 6X4 (6CS6 in place of 6BE6).
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I remember when I listened to the Chuck Harder Show on WASP (1130 kc) here in Pittsburgh, sometimes in the winter, a New York City station, WBBR I think, would come in about 3:30 PM in the day and "walk over" WASP.
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Tuesday night I managed to pick up KFYR in Bismarck, No. Dak. for about 30 seconds. Normally KTSA San Antonio is somewhat listenable - when it fades out a Mexican station can be heard. Guess KTSA and the mexican station both faded out at the same time, allowing me to barely hear a local commercial, station ID and rejoin for the Art Bell Program.
Bismarck is over 1500 miles from New Orleans as the crow flies. Wonder if they'll send me a QSL card if I write (haven't done that in years!)
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