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6. In the 1950s one of our great past times was tuning in the 50,000 watt AM stations after dark in the

Fri Mar 12, 2021, 10:16 PM

Mar 2021

summer. We would often stay up all night trying to see how far away we could pick up stations.

We were in the middle of the country (southern Iowa) and could all but west of the Rockies and Florida. We got several stations in Canada.

We also would play with the VHF tv dial all night. There were what were called "skip signals" where the TV signal would bounce arid the atmosphere after dark.
We could get NYC, Louisville, Seattle (mountains didn't stop skip signals) and Omaha for example.

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