I am a radio hobbiest and i keep track of stations i hear far away i live in nj. and i have heard stations just sitting out side or in my home with my AM/FM radio from Texas to the Turks and caicos and up in Canada but, what is the farest distance that a AM radio station has ever traveled. thanks :)
2007-07-02 10:14:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Probably Rush Limbaugh he broadcasts worldwide
2007-07-02 10:18:28 · answer #1 · answered by ethancme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know whether you're going to believe me or not, but in 1984/85 I was living in a relatively (locally) high place with no hills or tall buildings around, in Higher Broughton, Salford, Manchester, England. I had an old Russian-made radio which I used to connect to the TV aerial on the roof.
At night I could get stations from Greece, North Africa and the Middle East, as far away as Iran, loud and clear. Once, presumably due to strange atmospheric conditions, I got a station from Australia (short wave AM).
2007-07-02 20:23:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Under the right circumstances ( usually during a peak period in the sunspot cycle) Signals in the AM broadcast band can travel all around the earth.
Also, some of the signals escape into space and then there is basically no limit.
Adolph
2007-07-03 00:45:10 · answer #3 · answered by Adolph K 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I live in California and one night I picked up a radio station on my car radio giving the local weather forcast for Lexington, KY.
2007-07-02 14:25:40 · answer #4 · answered by Northstar 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Amplitude Modulation, I wonder if Voyager 2 used that to send back the final pictures of the sun from beyond the orbit of Pluto. If so, that wins !
2007-07-02 10:26:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The radio waves of a pulsar.
2007-07-02 20:12:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋