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Can you pick up an AM station from far away in your area?

I can get Chicago News Radio when I visit my grandmother who lives about 250 miles North of Chicago. (WBBM has like, uber powerful signal ...)
 
Apparently you can get a Boston AM station in Georgia. Every once in a while callers are from there.
Due to the atmospheric diffraction
 
In central NC I pick up 1210 out of Philly pretty well. I'm originally from that area and like to listen to Phillies games on the AM radio.
 
We lived in the mountains of eastern Nevada for a year & a half. The ONLY radio we could get was "on the skip." Many nights, we'd listen to stations from Oklahoma because they were the ONLY stations we could get...and ZERO television. (since then, they've installed a nifty satellite system for the mining camp out there.)
We had herds of wild horses wander through, deer in the camp in the evening, and two big male cougars that prowled the valley.
Needless to say, we kept a close eye on everyone's kids...

Sometimes, especially at night, when I've been driving in the middle of nowhere, all I can pick up for radio is some radio station from half-way across the country...on the skip.
 
I'm in North GA and I have picked up a Cincinnati station. It was pretty cool one night - I heard my cousin on the air as she works for their news department.
 
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
at night you can pick up stuff in chi.
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nice job telling us where you're from

BTW one time I stayed up late at night with a crummy clock radio and managed to tune into an AM station in Louisiana... from Minnesota!
 
I built a crystal "radio" as a kid and spent many nights trying to see how far away I could tune in a station. From metro-Boston I managed to hear a Texas AM station. There were many stations with different regional accents or call letters beginning with "K" which were outside the New England area, but I could not identify which state or city (or perhaps country in the case of Canada) they broadcasted from.
 
Late at night in Minneapolis, you can pick up Ka - A - Vay - Tay! (KEVT) in Tijuana. El gigante! El magnifico! 'Course you can cook chickens in front of it's transmitters pumping out 150, 000 watts.
 
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