My first am DX list:

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by leadlike

Jeff,

I found CFZM through this wiki article. Their line following their call sign was 'the best of the best' which helped in my search:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFZM

I agree with you on this dinky Florida station. I would like to think that as this was just playing the national ESPN sports feed, that some slovenly local ESPN affiliate was just repeating the Florida signal during their off hours. Hence, the Florida call sign rather than their own. Although if that was true, it would have to be a heck of a coincidence that they shared the same frequency on the dial...

I used to get a Raleigh station when I worked right on the Susquehanna river. The river formed sheer cliffs on all sides except to the south, so there was no television or FM radio. But we did get that one weak am station out of Raleigh. I believe it was WPTF as that was my first exposure to Art Bell and the freaky side of late night radio. I still get that station from time to time here, but that has been my record for southern reception.

I looked up CFZM on Wikipedia myself earlier tonight and found that it is the former CHWO-AM 740 in Toronto; its website, however, is the same as it always was: www.am740.ca. I live near Lake Erie and hear 740 over the air very well, 24/7, but I have also bookmarked its website in my browser so I can listen when I'm working at the computer. Noticed the station has changed its format, from big band to oldies. It dawned on me at that moment that there had been talk of the station dropping its big band format for some other type of music, but they weren't saying at that time what the new format would be.

The Florida station I heard 38 years ago on my stereo FM radio was, IIRC, WEAT-FM, 107.9, and I was in a suburb of Cleveland then. Must have gotten that station on a fluke, as the frequency was dead silent at the time, the local Cleveland station having been knocked off the air by lightning as I explained in my post. The Florida station was a rock station at the time (1970); ESPN (radio or TV) did not exist then. I don't know what the "dinky little Florida station" you were referring to could have been, as I have never heard any Florida AMs here in my entire life (I've been an Ohioan all my 52 years; never lived anywhere outside the state).

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by gadget73

I like to do DX work on my Radiola 18, though its 0-100 dial makes it a little more work. I use that one just because its my oldest, and given its lack of selectivity, it makes it more work to really pull stuff in properly.

To the OP, its sort of intersting you get KYW clear out there in Lancaster. I know its a 50kw station in nearby Philly, but here in southern NJ I barely pull it in. I think I must be in one of the nulls in their radiation pattern or something because I can pull in 50kw Chicago stations with much stronger signals. Also, are you sure on the call sign for 740? I get 740 as CHWO out of Toronto, unless they changed call signs or something. Big Band Sunday Night is a fun program, and they have Bandstand on Saturdays which features mostly 50s music. They also do an OTR hour from like 10-11 pm on weeknights.

WABC-AM in New York also has an oldies radio program on weekends, Saturday nights, IIRC. I've only heard it a few times because I always forget to make a note of when it's on, but when I do remember to tune it in I do so because I really like 1950s-1960s oldies. There is an FM radio station near here that programs classic hits ('60s-'80s, so they can't be considered oldies--yet, anyway) and another in the next town east of here that plays nothing but 1950s-'60s oldies, even obscure ones that probably didn't get much air play when they were new.

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by sprman55

Hi nice list i still am dx .Dont forget to try the new expanded band 1.600 to 1.710mhz.Ihave heard many stations there.Good luck on dxing try right at sunset and just befor sun rise.Should be able to get many more stations.Sprman : 0

I know, I once picked up KDIA out of Berkeley, California on the radio in my 1994 Ford Explorer here in Pittsburgh.