Saturday, March 12, 2023: The Great Medium Wave Daylight DX Challenge

[If you haven’t already, please check out this previous post about The Great Medium Wave Daylight DX Challenge.]

Here are the rules:

  1. Frequency range is the medium wave band: 520-1710 kHz
  2. 10 am to 2 pm your local time today (Saturday, March 11, 2023). . . report the results in the comments to this post.
  3. Any radio with any antenna, but must be the radio at your location (no using remote internet radios)
  4. The listener must hear the signal in real time
  5. The stations must be ID’ed by listening to the signal.
  6. Your report should include:
    • Your name (or Internet handle)
    • Your receiver and antenna (stay with the same setup from beginning to end; if you use multiple setups, provide a separate report for each).
    • Your location
    • The time, the frequency, and the ID of each station heard
    • The total mileage of your top five most distant stations.

A final point: this is not a contest; it is a challenge. The reward for every participant will be fun and fellowship.

Please record your results in the Comments Section to this post below.

UPDATE: Chuck Rippel did sweeten the pot, though! Check out his generous offer here.

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28 thoughts on “Saturday, March 12, 2023: The Great Medium Wave Daylight DX Challenge

  1. 13dka

    As a reminder, I’m just “informally” posting my results outside of the competion. The medium wave radio landscape over here is very different from the USA and on top of that, I have an unfair geographical advantage – there are very strong stations pretty far away and there is almost nothing between me and the remaining stations in the EU (basically only the UK an NL around noon) that could interfere. If you are located in the UK, there are very, very few stations to the east in the EU to return that favor, at least around noon without any appreciable skywave propagation.

    Also, I went to my low-noise place (“the dike”) at the coast, which gives me both low noise and a 10 dB signal boost on everything coming in across the ocean. In case of sync networks I logged the closest transmitter (even though that’s usually not the one actually received) unless the antenna bearing wasn’t plausible for that location (example:720kHz).

    Name: 13dka/Ollie
    RX/ANT: Belka 2022 w/ AFA-200 active ferrite rod antenna (my ultraportable MW rig)
    Location: “The dike” at the German North Sea coast, between Hamburg and the Danish border

    Here’s the log (out of 38 logged frequencies):

    1312 558 Panjab Radio Crystal Palace 2.5kW 671km (417mi)
    1212 603 BBC 4 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 0.5kW 677km (420mi)
    1324 603 Smooth R. Littlebourne 0.4kW 607km (377mi)
    1218 648 R. Caroline Orfordness 4kW 567km (352mi)
    1222 693 BBC 5 Network (Postwick) 15kW 521km (323mi)
    1225 720 BBC 4 Belfast 10kW 951km (591mi)
    1227 810 BBC Scotland Netw. (Westerglen) 100kW 826km (513mi)
    1228 837 BBC Asian Network Leicester 0.7kW 680km (422mi)
    1234 909 BBC 5 Network (Brookmans Park) 150kW 663km (412mi)
    1235 1053 Talk Sports Network (Postwick) 18kW 521km (323mi)
    1238 1152 Smooth R. Brundall 0.8kW 544km (338mi)
    1333 1161 Tay R. Dundee 1.4kW 793km (493mi)
    1256 1413 Premier Heathrow/Dartfort Mar. 0.5kW 650km (404mi)
    1258 1431 Smooth R. Southend/Rayleigh 0.3kW 625km (388mi)
    1300 1449 BBC 4 R.Scotland Redmoss 2kW 763km (474mi)
    1306 1548 Greatest Hits R. Skew Hill 0.7kW 679km (422mi)

    Top 5 Distances:

    1. 1090km/677mi 540kHz 2MW Kossuth Radio, Solt, Hungary
    2. 951km/591mi 720kHz 10kW BBC 4 Lisnagarvey Blaw-Knox mast
    3. 826km/513mi 810kHz 100kW BBC R. Scotland Westerglen
    4. 793km/493mi 1161kHz 1.4kW Tay 2 Scotland, Greenside Scalp
    5. 763km/474mi 1449kHz 2kW BBC R. Scotland Aberdeen/Redmoss

    = 4,423km, 2,748 miles, 21,968.5 furlongs or 1.4334e+8 attoparsecs.

    A suggestion for the next time: Simply using distance as the challenge does not account for transmitter power. Maybe lower power should be rewarded? Not sure what a good formula would be, something like distance divided by power = points?

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  2. Tom Laskowski

    Tom Laskowski
    Ge Superadio II Model 7-2885F
    South Bend, Indiana
    The total mileage of your top five most distant stations = 1230 miles

    Notes: I had to relocate a few blocks away to a neighborhood park to get away from the power line noise which was killing me.
    Saturday morning has many stations carrying local programs and I found most of them IDed often.
    I logged 69 stations. Six of these are three letter calls!
    Average distance was 96.3 miles.
    My SR II tunes up to 1650 kHz but I only logged one ex-bander, WSJP-WI.
    All times are EST.

    10:01 540 kHz WAUK Jackson, WI “You are listening to 540 WAUK Jackson”
    10:03 550 kHz WKRC Cincinnati, OH “55 KRC”
    12:00 550 khz KTRS St. Louis, MO “The Big Talker 5-50 KTRS” 90 deg. null of WKRC
    10:04 560 kHz WIND Chicago, IL “AM 5-60 The Answer WIND Chicago”
    10:05 580 kHz WILL Champaign, IL “You’re listening to “Listener-supported” NPR, WILL Champaign”
    10:06 590 kHz WKZO Kalamazoo, MI “…from the WKZO newsroom …”
    10:10 600 kHz WMT Cedar Rapids, IA “AM 600 WMT …” very weak
    10:12 610 kHz WTVN Columbus, OH Columbus gardening show, “WTVN weather forecast …”
    10:14 620 kHz WTMJ Milwaukee, WI Fox World Travel show ” … on WTMJ ..”
    10:11 640 kHz WMFN Peotone, IL Black Information Network, “Chicago’s BIN 640”
    10:15 670 kHz WSCR Chicago, IL IDs as “670 The Score”
    10:18 700 kHz WLW Cincinnati, OH local polital talk show with WLW mentions
    10:20 720 kHz WGN Chicago, IL “…House Smart Radio on WGN ..”
    10:25 740 kHz WNOP Newport, KY Ave Maria religion with WNOP call heard at 10:29
    10:24 750 kHz WNDZ Portage, IN Motown and oldies, “Access Radio Chicago AM 750 WNDZ”
    10:45 760 kHz WJR Detroit, MI “WJR traffic and weather together …” home improvement show
    10:35 780 kHz WBBM Chicago, IL “WBBM Newstalk 105-9” (never mentions 780 anymore) into “Big Lou” ad
    10:53 790 kHz WSGW Saginaw, MI tough in WBBM splatter, long ad string, mention of “find us on Facebook @ WSGW Radio”
    11:56 800 kHz CKLW Windsor, ON lots of “AM 800” IDs and sports talk about hockey
    11:01 820 kHz WCPT Chicago, IL “Chicago’s progressive talk AM 820 WCPT”
    12:05 840 kHz WHAS Louisville, KY weather with “WHAS 840” heard before traffic, very weak
    12:09 860 kHz WMRI Marion, IN sports, ID as “Star 106-9 FM” and “The Score”
    11:08 870 kHz WKAR East Lansing, MI “Weekend Edition on WKAR .. supported by listeners like you”
    1:54 880 kHz WRFD Columbus, OH retirement program, heard “The Word Columbus” for ID
    12:08 890 kHz WLS Chicago, IL ABC News into Chicago traffic “from the WLS 890 AM Traffic Center”
    12:02 910 kHz WGTO Cassopolis, MI lots of MeTV FM IDs, “WGTO ID only heard near ToH
    11:19 920 kHz WBAA W. Lafayette, IN Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me followed by WBAA Events Calendar
    1:42 920 kHz WOKY Milwaukee, WI “Milwaukee’s Fox Sports”, talk about the Milwaukee Brewers, ad for Capital Duct of Milwaukee
    11:18 930 kHz WFAT Battle Creek, MI promo for a bike event in Battle Creek, “930 AM and 102-7 The Fat One”
    11:21 960 kHz WSBT South Bend, IN “Sportsradio 9-60 WSBT”
    11:44 1000 kHz WMVP Chicago, IL ID as “ESPN one thousand Chicago ”
    12:25 1030 kHz WNVR Vernon Hills, IL ethnic program with local ads for the Chicago area, WNVR ID heard at 12:25
    11:42 1050 kHz WTCA Plymouth, IN pop music, “FM 1-0-6-1 and AM 10-50 WTCA”
    11:37 1060 kHz WHFB Benton Harbor, MI “This is WHFB Motown and More”
    12:30 1080 kHz WNWI Oak Lawn, IL ethnic (Arabic programming), ad for how to get airtime with mention of WNWI with address and phone #
    12:57 1090 kHz WFCV Ft. Wayne, IN Real Life Radio and “Bott Radio Network WFCV AM and 93.7 FM”
    1:02 1110 kHz WXES Chicago, IL spanish, ID as “WXES AM 11-10 Chicago Illinois, Radio Catolica?”
    11:59 1130 kHz WISN Milwaukee, WI yard design show and retirement program, Saturdays at ten on WISN”
    11:46 1140 kHz WAWK Kendallville, IN “Classic hits FM 95-5 The Hawk”
    12:37 1150 kHz WIMA Lima, OH The Weekend, “WIMA 11-50” heard during break in the program
    11:59 1160 kHz WYLL Chicago, IL audio problems, cutting out quite a bit, “Hope For Your Life, 11-60 WYLL Chicago”
    12:07 1190 kHz WOWO Ft. Wayne, IN Lots of “11-90 Wowo” IDs, strong local daytimer
    11:58 1200 kHz WRTO Chicago, IL very tough in WOWO’s IBOC hash, spanish sports with “WRTO AM 12 hundred Chicago” IDs in english
    12:01 1230 kHz WBET Sturgis, MI “Michiana’s ESPN 12-30 WBET Sturgis”
    1:06 1230 kHz WSAL Logansport, IN in 90 deg. null of WBET, “adult standards, “WSAL Logansport” IDs between every few songs
    1:03 1240 kHz WSBC Chicago, IL ethnic with “Access Chicago AM 12-40 WSBC”
    12:57 1258 kHz WGL Ft. Wayne, IN ID “Newsradio 12-50 and 105-5 WGL Fort Wayne”
    10:29 1260 kHz WPNW Zeeland, MI ads for Muskegeon and Pontiac, “support Joy Worship radio”
    1:08 1270 kHz WCMR Elkhart, IN “Gospel Greats on 12-70 WCMR” one of my nearest locals
    1:10 1290 kHz WNIL Niles, NI oldies with “12-90 WNIL and also on FM 107-5”
    11:54 1320 kHz WILS Lansing, MI easy daytimer, “WILS 13-20 Lansing”
    1:25 1330 kHz WKTA Evanston, IL Spanish program, English ID just after ToH “WKTA Evanston-Chicago”
    12:32 1340 kHz WTRC Elkhart, IN “The All New MNCNation.com, WTRC Elkhart-South Bend”
    11:55 1350 kHz WIOU Kokomo, IN sports, “ESPN WIOU Kokomo”
    1:13 1360 kHz WKMI Kalamazoo, MI lots of “Talkradio 13-60 WKMI” IDs, good here
    12:10 1370 kHz WLTH Gary, IN caller won tickets, “you can pick up your tickets at the WLTH studio …”
    1:05 1380 kHz WKJG Ft. Wayne, IN Purdue vs Ohio State basketball, “The Fan” slogans during timeouts
    1:30 1390 kHz WGRB Chicago, IL Black Gospel, with lots of “Inspiration 13-90” IDs
    1:04 1400 kHz WQYQ St. Joseph, MI “The all new QYQ” alternative rock format
    1:22 1420 kHz WIMS Michigan City, IN oldies and classic rock, “AM 14-20 WIMS” and singing “WIMS” IDs heard
    1:26 1430 kHz WEEF Deerfield, IL brokered ethnic, very weak but ID “WEEF Deerfield-Chicago” at 1:30
    12:11 1460 kHz WKAM Goshen, IN // to my local 1580, “La Raza quince ochenta”
    12:13 1480 kHz WRSW Warsaw, IN local ads and several “NewsNow Warsaw” IDs
    1:19 1490 kHz WPNA Oak Park, IL Radio Chicago slogan, many local ads for Chicago
    12:15 1520 kHz WKVI Know, IN local news, “WKVI.com” heard in passing
    12:04 1530 kHz WCKY Cincinnati, OH “Cincinnati’s ESPN 15-30”, weaker than normal
    12:17 1540 kHz WLOI LaPorte, IN “Rock 106-5 with non-stop LaPorte Rock …”
    12:59 1580 kHz WHLY South Bend, IN my closest local at 2.1 miles, “WHLY 15-80 South Bend and 14-60 WKAM Goshen”
    1:31 1640 kHz WSJP Sussex, WI very weak but in the clear, “Relavent Radio” heard, my only ex-bander logged today

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    1. TomL

      Great work and very detailed. Getting to a park and nulling signals helps a lot. I tried later at 3pm at a park and would have been able to add at least 92 more miles to my catches. Great radio you have there!

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  3. Stephen Puliafico

    This was fun. From my location in West Glenville, NY using a GE Superadio 2 7-28850 with C. Crane Twin Coil Ferrite I logged the following five stations which would be my furthest catches.

    540AM WBWD Radio Zindagi Islip NY – 11:48am – 158 miles

    1030AM WBZ Boston MA 11:24am – 157 miles

    680AM WRKO Boston MA 1:03pm – 157 miles

    1010AM WINS NYC 11:21am – 153 miles

    880AM WCBS NYC 12:19pm – 153 miles

    Total mileage of five furthest – 778 miles using as the crow flies from my location to the city (not exact to the transmitter)

    I logged a number of other NYC stations including WFAN WOR

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  4. Dan

    From Philly using a Superradio I with the internal antenna:

    1003 WEEU 830 Reading PA 47 miles
    1004 WCBS 880 NYC 73 miles
    1015 KYW 1060 Philly local
    1016 WPHT 1210 Philly local
    1026 WFAN 660 NYC 73 miles
    1026 WABC 770 NYC 73 miles
    1030 WURD 900 Philly local
    1200 WNPV 1440 Lansdale, PA 16 miles

    My top 5 in distance = 282 miles.

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  5. Dan

    My third attempt to post!

    I found the challenge to be frustrating as the stations ID so infrequently.
    Out of many (30?) station heard, I could only get on-the-air IDs on eight of them

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    1. Dan

      From Philly using a Superradio I with the internal antenna:

      1003 WEEU 830 Reading PA 47 miles
      1004 WCBS 880 NYC 73 miles
      1015 KYW 1060 Philly local
      1016 WPHT 1210 Philly local
      1026 WFAN 660 NYC 73 miles
      1026 WABC 770 NYC 73 miles
      1030 WURD 900 Philly local
      1200 WNPV 1440 Lansdale, PA 16 miles

      My top 5 in distance = 282 miles.

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    2. David

      Waiting for a station to identify itself is frustrating. Quite a few of the stations I pulled in today were simulcast Programs or infomercials that lasted forever.

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  6. Ken K. in NJ

    Hi. This was fun. I do a mid day bandscan every so often, so I had a good idea what to expect. That said, today was a little disappointing. Drizzly/ snow flurry day here in western Union County NJ, definitely not the best conditions. As an example, usually I can get WBZ 1030 Boston, today, just static. That would normally be my best mid day distance catch. So that’s 238 miles lost right there.

    Anyway:

    580 WIP Harrisburg PA. 164 mi.
    810 WGY Schenectady NY 152 mi.
    590 WROW Albany NY 144 mi.
    1080 WTIC Hartford CT 144 mi.
    980 WILK Wilkes-Barre PA. 114 mi.
    Total 718 mi.

    I used my C Crane 2E with a Radio Shack loop.

    Thanks for setting this up, a nice late Winter break. Looking forward to the other posts

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  7. Stephen Puliafico

    This was fun. From my location in West Glenville, NY using a GE Superadio 2 7-28850 with C. Crane Twin Coil Ferrite I logged the following five stations which would be my furthest catches.

    540AM WBWD Radio Zindagi Islip NY – 11:48am – 158 miles

    1030AM WBZ Boston MA 11:24am – 157 miles

    680AM WRKO Boston MA 1:03pm – 157 miles

    1010AM WINS NYC 11:21am – 153 miles

    880AM WCBS NYC 12:19pm – 153 miles

    Total mileage of five furthest – 778 miles using as the crow flies from my location to the city (not exact to the transmitter)

    I logged a number of other NYC stations including WFAN WOR etc

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  8. TomL

    I did not go out to a park with the loop on ground, stayed home at the noisy condo. Used a 20 meter dipole usually for ham radio, Cross Country Wireless passive preselector, AirSpy HF+, SDR Console 3.2. I used radio-locator transmitter site and the program Mangosteen mentioned to calculate.

    WLW Cincinnati OH (50kW), 700 kHz, 10:02 AM – 267.1 miles
    WSUI Iowa City, IA (5kW), 910 kHz, 10:06 AM – 172.2
    WMT Cedar Rapids IA (5kW), 600 kHz, 10:35 AM – 171.1
    WHO Des Moines IA (50kW), 1040 kHz, 10:48 AM – 262
    KXIC Iowa City IA (1kW), 800 kHz, 11:23 AM – 168.7
    ===========
    1041.1 miles

    Very good exercise to see what can be picked up during the daytime. Thanks for the challenge.

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    1. Stephen Puliafico

      Nice catches Tom. Trying to post my log on here but my comments aren’t appearing. Hopefully this one will.

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      1. TomL

        Thanks. I found the passive preselector to help with the weak stations. It also helped that I was able to catch many doing weather or traffic updates where they say their callsign.

        Sometimes the SWLing blog is very slow to update. Best to give it about 5 minutes, then refresh and see. Also, if you have web hyperlinks, most will not post right away until approved by some unknown process. Hope that helps.

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  9. Stephen Puliafico

    This was fun. From my location in West Glenville, NY using a GE Superadio 2 7-28850 with C. Crane Twin Coil Ferrite I logged the following five stations which would be my furthest catches.

    540AM WBWD Radio Zindagi Islip NY – 11:48am – 158 miles

    1030AM WBZ Boston MA 11:24am – 157 miles

    680AM WRKO Boston MA 1:03pm – 157 miles

    1010AM WINS NYC 11:21am – 153 miles

    880AM WCBS NYC 12:19pm – 153 miles

    Total mileage of five furthest – 778 miles using as the crow flies from my location to the city (not exact to the transmitter)

    I logged a number of other NYC stations including WFAN WOR etc.

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  10. Dan Finegan N3DTF

    Forgive me if this is a duplicate post.
    I found the MW Challenge to be pretty frustrating as the stations ID themselves so infrequently. In the hour and a half that I spent listening, I must have heard at least 30 stations but I could get on-the-air IDs for only 7.
    From Philadelphia using a Superadio I with the internal antenna:
    1003 WEEU 830 Reading PA 47 miles
    1004 WCBS 880 NYC 73 miles
    1016 KYW 1060 Philly local
    1016 WPHT 1210 Philly local
    1016 WFAN 660 NYC 73 miles
    1028 WABC 770 NYC 73 miles
    1030 WURD 900 Philly local
    1200 WNPV 1440 Lansdale, PA 16 miles
    My five most distant stations = 282 miles

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  11. David Mappin

    David – (MA3149SWL)
    Filey, UK. Grid IO94uf
    Radio – Sangean ATS-909X2
    Antenna – Cross Country Wireless (CCW) Loop Antenna Amplifier ++ (LAA++) With a 1 Metre diameter loop made out of LDF4-50 coax. Loop was inside the house at ground level.

    Heard a total of 23 stations. Best 5 were:
    1100 UTC, 540kHz, Kossuth Radio – Solt, Hungary, 987 Miles
    1340 UTC, 1395kHz, Radio Seabreeze – Laren, Netherlands, 264 Miles
    1140 UTC, 801kHz, Radio Europa – Alphen Aan Den Rijn, Netherlands, 251 Miles
    1200 UTC, 882kHz, BBC Radio Wales – Washford, Wales, 249 Miles
    1055 UTC, 1449kHz, BBC Radio 4 – Aberdeen, Scotland, 214 Miles
    Total Miles = 1,965
    There are not many MW stations remaining in the UK now but plenty of DX to be heard from Europe.
    A very enjoyable 4 hours spent on the radio. Thank you and 73, David.

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  12. Terry Hosking

    OK, today life happened. Income tax returns, etc. I couldn’t start until 1:30. Then around 1:50, my neighbor’s refrigerator joined the party and DX was hopeless..
    location: Barre, VT.
    Radio: single transistor regen, no antenna/gnd.
    earphone volume… Real quick verification of known-to-receive stations….:

    CJAD 800 Montreal REAL easy
    CFRA 580 Ottawa tough
    WGAN 560 Portland ME tough
    WBZ 1030 Boston easy
    WGIR 610 Manchester NH easy
    This regen set will outperform any vintage transistor radio I have, including a very excellent Zenith R750 TRF set circa 1957. Of course considerable operator skill is required to use it!

    Should do this again!!
    Had I time, I could have picked up MANY others!!!

    This was fun, and it was good to use the total perf. capability of this
    set in addition to it’s usual night time entertainment when the skip
    is in and I don’t need anywhere near the perf. capability of the set.

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  13. William J. Rogers Jr.

    Bill Rogers
    Using a Belka 01-31 Allmode tiny battery powered general receiver coupled to an outside loop I made. I forget the name of the loop design but it is the same as recommended for an Airspy SDR; I increased the size of it to run around the perimeter of my balcony railing. I live in a condominium and am bedeviled by electrical noise. However I suspect the actual noise level is not super bad, since I can still make out some weak signals.

    I listened between 10:00 and 12:00 this morning, Eastern Standard Time. I’ll list everything I got to give you a flavor of where I live. 🙂

    530 WHNC Mackinaw Bridge Traveler’s Information Service, Mackinaw City MI, 15 miles
    560 CFOS Owen Sound ON, 188 miles. Sports talk program, usually they’re classic rock.
    580 WTCM Traverse City MI, 82 miles, political talk
    600 WCHT Escanaba MI 125 miles, sports talk
    680 WDBC Escanaba MI 125 miles, High School sports talk
    760 WJR Detroit MI 240 miles, traffic and weather report
    790 WSGW Saginaw MI 156 miles, gardening or home improvement show (I forget which)
    870- Unid and I’m not counting it, but generally this would be a Michigan State University station in East Lansing- in case anyone wonders. 🙂
    940 WIDG St Ignace MI 17 miles. Catholic radio.
    960 WHAK Rogers City MI 31 miles, High School sports show
    1230 WSOO Salut Sainte Marie MI 60 miles, light rock. The Belka can receive sideband; I never would have gotten this signal without that. I used LSB to null out fierce adjacent channel interference.
    1240 WCBY Cheboygan MI 0 miles. Country music.
    1270 WMKT Petoskey MI 26 miles. Political talk.
    1340 WMBN Petoskey MI 26 miles. Sports talk.
    1400 WKNW Sault Sainte Marie 60 miles. Sports talk
    1610 WHNC Mackinaw City MI 15 miles, second frequency. Traveler’s information service for Mackinaw Bridge.
    15 stations, five longest Detroit, Owen Sound, Saginaw, and Escanaba twice. Which adds up to 834 miles in the very shaky assumption that I didn’t make any mistakes anywhere!

    Thanks. This was fun.

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  14. Dan Finegan N3DTF

    I found this challenge to be very frustrating as stations ID themselves very infrequently.
    In a hour and a half, I probably heard about 30 stations but only heard on-the-air IDs from 7 of them.
    From Philadelphia using a SupeRadio I with the internal antenna:
    1003 WEEU 830 Reading PA 47 miles
    1004 WCBS 880 NYC 73 miles
    1015 KYW 1060 Philly local
    1016 WPHT 1210 Philly local
    1026 WFAN 660 NYC 73 miles
    1028 WABC 770 NYC 73 miles
    1030 WURD 900 Philly local
    1200 WNPV 1440 Lansdale PA 16 miles
    Mileage of 5 most distant stations – 282 miles

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  15. Stephen P.

    This was fun. Using my GE Superadio 2, 7-28850 with C. Crane twin coil ferrite antenna, my five furthest logged stations from West Glenville NY were:

    540AM WBWD Radio Zindagi Islip NY 11:48am 158 miles
    1030AM WBZ Boston MA 11:24am 157 miles
    680AM WRKO Boston MA 1:03pm 157 miles
    1010AM WINS NYC 11:21am 153 miles
    880 WCBS NYC 12:19pm 153 miles

    Total miles 778, I used as the crow flies mileage to the city so my mileage isn’t exact to each station.

    I logged a number of other NYC stations, a couple of smaller power VT and MA stations and a number of lower power stations I had never heard. For some catches the C. Crane made a huge difference.

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  16. Mark

    ame: Mark Pederen

    Receiver & Antenna: GE Superadio III with built-in ferrite antenna

    Location: FN13GC Fairport, New York 14450

    1124 CJBQ Bellevue ON 73 miles

    1201 WYLF Elmira NY 76 miles

    1209 WBEN Buffalo NY 76 miles

    1213 WHEN Syracuse NY 63 miles

    1215 WSYR Syracuse NY 63 miles

    1220 WGR Buffalo NY 76 miles

    1240 WROC Rochester NY 10 miles

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  17. Chris

    Here is what I came up with- from Salisbury, Maryland (on Maryland’s Eastern Shore)
    Rig: Yaesu ft-950
    Antenna: Dipole

    570 WWRCAM- Bethesda, MD
    600 AM- WCAO “Heaven Radio”= Baltimore, MD
    630-AM- WSBN = Washington, DC “ESPN 630”
    640 AM- WWJZ Mount Holly New Jersey Catholic Radio
    680 AM- WCBN Washington, D.C.
    780 AM WAVA Arlington, VA
    790 AM- WNIS Norfolk VA
    840 AM- WKDI Denton, MD Christian radio
    850 AM – WTAR Norfolk, VA Urban Contemporary (?)
    860 AM- WFSI Baltimore, MD- Christian
    880 AM – WCBS New York, NY
    900 AM WACA Laurel, MD Spanish
    930AM- “Cool 102.1” Milford, Delaware
    940 AM- WKGM Smithfield, VA Christian
    960 AM- WTGM Salisbury, MD Sports Talk
    1030 AM- WWGB “Radio Poder” – Indian Head, MD
    1230 Am WCMC Wildwood, NJ oldies
    1240 AM- cbs sports radio
    1320 WJKI Salisbury, MD- rock
    1470 WJDY Salisbury, MD – news/talk
    1500 WFED Wheaton, MD “Federal News Network”
    1610 travel information
    1690 WPTX, Laurel, MD easy listening

    WCBS in NYC wins hands down. NYC is about 230 miles from Salisbury, MD. We can pick up multiple Baltimore and VA stations, but they are not really that far “as the crow flies”. Land here is pretty flat, and I guess the Chesapeake Bay helps with propagation.

    The AM band here is VERY noisy! Even local stations are tough to pick up. Also, I noticed a lot of Christian and Spanish language/music stations and only one “easy listening” station left that I can get- 1690 AM

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  18. David Soule

    I had a great time doing this.
    I pulled in a Total of 38 stations and heard a lot of low power stations that
    I do not usually pull in.
    D. Soule
    I used my GE 7-2880 B on a Lazy Susan
    My Location is Enfield, Ct
    10:00 AM EST. 540 AM WXMC Edison ,NJ 171 miles
    10:03 Am EST .570 WMAC NYC 140 miles
    10:24 Am EST .710 WOR NYC 137 miles
    11:07 AM EST . 880 WCBS 137 miles
    11:41 AM EST .1010 WINS 137 miles

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