"Dave" wrote in message
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I'm in Southern California. No Canadian station on 1610 is going to make
it into L. A. at 9:30 in the morning.

You're probably right.. but not necessarily. During winter (especially)
AMBCB stations can be heard at very great distances, even in the daytime.

Two examples of such:

580 KFXD Boise/Nampa, ID heard all day, all winter at Astoria, OR, for most
of the winter.
620 KGW Portland, OR heard for several hours during a snowstorm in Lewiston,
ID
610 KONA Pasco/Kennewick/Richland, WA heard most any time in the west hills
of Portland, OR (with 5000W KGW on adjacent 620!)

Doesn't prove anything either way, just fun facts.

I had never seen TV skip until I was 19.. when I was watching local channel
2 (KATU) in Portland and over the span of a couple minutes I ended up
watching the news on CKCK channel 2 in Regina, SK, Canada. RF is black
magic..