Re: What Can You Hear From the Top of a Tower? AM tower RX'ing!

Did I ever tell the story of when I shunt-fed to a 50ft tower in WNY in 2007? The rig was a new Yaesu FT-857D, and even with that rig, MW was unreal from the shunt-feed. The NYC big-3, (660AM, 770AM, and 880AM.), were all S9 in middle of the day, being 300 miles West of NYC. Toronto, Hamilton, many Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Elmira / Corning, AM stations were like locals. The one station that could have overloaded the receive is 790AM WLSV, at around 4 miles away then. I didn't have a lot of time to do this, but what a neat test to do, and all on a marine battery, so no power line noise what so ever. BTW, shunt-feeding that tower allowed for tune-up, with an MFJ-941D tuner, on 160M, 75M, 60M, and 40M. Not a super signal to transmit with, at less-than 100W, but I was able to work anyone I heard from like S9 and above.