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Y'know the AM broadcast band, the noisy scratchy muffled side of your car stereo which is only suitable for talk radio and traffic advisories?
Here's a signal received across ~500 miles.
@rey Back in the day you could hear AM signals from all over the country. Especially on those late-night drives with the old car radios that you could fine-tune manually, it was a trip.
@filkerdave @rey Back in the 90's when I lived in northwest Ohio, I once picked up an AM station out of St. Louis, Missouri (approx 400 mi). I don't recall it sounding this good, but it was still impressive.
@rey And then there was this: http://elcomics.tumblr.com/post/138514380764/midnight-radio-written-by-ehud-lavski-art-by