I think WLS was one of only a few 50k watt transmitters. Being from Chicago, I listened to Dick Biondi as a kid, and I could pick up WLS from Norfolk when I went in the Navy. My mates liked getting that tuned in. Think we could get WABC sometimes too, depending on atmospherics.
--Vic
All of these stations had clear channel allocations back in the sixties and they should all be audible today in most of the US. WBZ is sort of problematic because they are interfered with by the digital subcarrier of an adjacent station, but WABC and WLS come in like gangbusters here in Virginia.
Problem with AM is mostly local interference. There are FCC rules for interference radiation, but they haven't been enforced for years and nobody cares. Get out of the city and into the country and you'll be amazed what you can get on AM... Cuban stations, Canadian stations, much of South America with a cheap transistor radio and a long wire.
--scott
I am a radio nut every since I was a kid.I reckon I own at least three hundred or more old radios.Some of them work ok, some of them sort of kind of work, some of them don't work at all. cuhulin
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