-=> Quoting Phil Marlowe to Leonard Erickson <=-

 > How far away are these stations? Any idea where
 > their *transmitters* are?
 PM> 
 PM> I'd guess less than 100 miles? Probably around
 PM> 50-60. The transmitters are up in the Vermount
 PM> mountains and upstate New York. One of the stations
 PM> signs off with "... from high atop Mt. XXXXXXXXX."
 PM> Then the terrain from there is about as flat as
 PM> flat can be, ie. the transmitters are beaming the
 PM> signal down on us.

Don't forget that "flat" land *curves*. That antenna may be low the
horizon where you are. I don't have the formulas handy to figure out
how high you need to be to see something over the bulge of the Earth's
surface at a given distance.

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