Does anyone remember this story, don’t know if it was a london cabbie or a new york, i think it might of been a london cabbie, under some fluke conditions was able recieve a station from amercia, guess must of been on mw, drive around listening to it, maybe phoned into it. I think some dxers are able to receive signals from across the pond, seems they have specialist equipment, maybe have to record late on a night, don’t know the strength of these signals, maybe tentative deep down in the fryer. Wonder if anyone knew about the story, what the station was if it was true, are there any conditions would make them receivable on a normal domestic receiver.

I get the impression that he was meant to of phoned the station, get the impression that it was before the time of mobilephones, it does make it seem far fetched, alot of this has become like Chinese whispers, maybe a hoax. There is the skywave happens at night, there was some talk of sunspots effecting shortwave not so along ago, don’t know if these would have any effect on mw frequencies. I know about fm, transatlantic fm is next to impossible, with only people on the west coast of Ireland been able to do it, it would impossible for someone to drive around listening to an fm station from New York in London. There is this website though https://map.pirateradiomap.com
There have been things tropospheric ducting, remember afew weeks it was back in 2005, beable to recieve rte transmitters on a car radio simliar that of a huddersfield pirate. There was another time, you could do this with dutch stations, Caz fm was coming in for afew days, someone could drive around listening to these, some people have been able to receive Norway under tropo, don't know if these for steady enough for someone to drive around listening, there is spe which goes further.

I would imagine that that is not unreasonable if the conditions were excellent. I picked up a baseball match from KSTP Minnesota here in Dublin back in the 80's - equipment used was a Panasonic RF2200 and a 24 Metre long wire lashed up a tree. I used to regularly get Radio Globo from Rio Di Janeiro and VOCM and CJYQ from Newfoundland as well as a couple of stations from Cuba. Stuff from across the atlantic was easy back then. You get none of that now, it's just too noisy with computers, fluorescent lights and whatnot that I don't even try anymore. One of my neighbours has a dimmer switch that ruins the medium wave from about a MegaHertz up - wanker!

when I looked it up, said people had picked up some baseball, does seem they are right down in the noise he users all different filters on sdrplay, can just about make out the American talking, 5am is the time to listen. Wonder if the sdr play will be any use picking up in car transmitters, don't think i'd go recording the am band myself but its interesting to hear how they sound

Transatlantic MW DX is possible most nights, especially as the use of MW is declining in Europe opening up the band to hear stations from across the pond. Since the start of the year I've logged:

• 750 CBGY (Bonavista, Canada)
• 1200 CFGO (Ottawa, Canada)
• 1200 WXKS (Newton, MA, USA)
• 1250 CJYE (Oakville, Canada)
• 1280 CFMB (Montreal, Canada)

As stations in the Americas use a 10 kHz raster and those in Europe use a 9 kHz raster, find a multiple of 10 (e.g. 1300) that falls between multiples of 9 (e.g. 1296, 1305) and give it a listen. https://www.mwlist.org/ is a good source to find out what's on air, there's also a live logbook page so that you can see what other people are hearing.

Transatlantic MW DX is certainly possible under the right conditions and the right time of night.

Whether its possible to receive such stations with reception good enough to comfortably listen to while driving around a large city at nighttime with multiple local noise sources etc is pretty doubtful.

The 2025 approach would be a 5G phone with a bluetooth connection to the car radio. Probably need a VPN to deal with geoblocking (at least with most of the commercial music stations)

I've heard baseball games being commentated on mw in the past whilst twiddling around late at night. That wasn't long ago neither..

Might be trippy to hear some of this, think theres some kind of field of dreams thing happening or some kind of time slip portal