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Originally Posted by vortalexfan
Who's Uncle Charlie? And I have no problems DX'ing on the AM Band on any of my radios and I live just outside of town where I live, and All I'm using are early 1930s and and early 1940s vintage wooden tabletop radios that required a 30'+ length of wire and a good ground to receive stations!   
You just need to move to Northern Indiana and you'll have great DX'ing because you're right in the middle of the country where you can pick up stations from about a 750+ mile radius from here.
I can pick up stations as far east as New York City and as far west as St. Louis and as far South as Nashville, and as far North as Toronto, Canada, all on the AM band between 7PM and 6AM, and these were just stations I was picking up on my Westinghouse WR-10 Tombstone radio.
I can't imagine what my 1942 FADA Model 176 could do with its more advanced AVC and Better IF and RF stages! |
I live in northeastern Ohio, near Cleveland (30 miles from town, within a half mile of the south shore of Lake Erie), and at night can hear many stations on most of my AM radios from within the 750-mile radius you mention. The FCC has done away with "clear channels" on the AM broadcast band; these were frequencies on which, after local sunset, there was only one 50kW station in operation all night long; during the day, other local stations were on these frequencies as well, but they were required to sign off at local sunset time. After the local stations left the air for the day, the "clear channel" stations could be heard almost nationwide after sundown.
The abolition of the clear channels ended that, but the FCC has a new system in place now where these former clear channel stations can be heard within a 750-mile radius after dark. The clear channels were done away with so that former daytime-only AM stations could operate 24 hours, with directional nighttime antenna patterns and lower nighttime power. There are a few "daytime-only" stations left; one of them is a 1kW ESPN sports radio operation in Cleveland on 1540 kHz. Many "daytimers", however, have taken advantage of the new regulations and are now operating 24 hours a day, again with directional antenna patterns and lower power after sunset.