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Yeah, I live west of Pittsburgh near the airport and in the daytime WJAS is OK to pick up but at night, it is tough, sometimes it is so far down in the mud, you can just forget it. At night they go from 7000 to 3000 watts and the antenna pattern changes to where you have 3 lobes, one north, one west and one southeast. I'm just at the end of the “local” coverage of the western lobe but I often wonder if I'm in a “skip zone” where the signal passes above me on the way to the ionosphere. I'm also a Coast to Coast junky, so instead of 1320 kc, I listen to it on 1170 out of Wheeling, 570 out of Youngstown or 1140 out of Richmond, VA. I'm sure my aunt is going ape, she liked the music on that station plus Chilly Billy and Jack Bogut. Well, soon it will not matter as much for me, I'm moving closer to Wheeling (my mother passed away and I can't keep the house) so I'll just hop over to WWVA on 1170 kc and listen to 1320 when I'm closer to Pittsburgh were I still work. Anyhoo, it is kind of ironic that Quinn and Rose's show “died” on the same day Mom passed away. B-( BTW, radio receiver used is a Grundig G6 Aviator model, “Buzz Aldrin edition.” It covers 150 to 29999 kc from longwave to shortwave, 76 to 108 Mc FM and 118 to 137 Mc VHF aviation band. I'll try my other receivers such as gramp’s 1953 5 tube Philco, my 1965 8 transistor Magnavox and my Heinz Ketchup Bottle radio.

thanks for the info and RIP to your mom. I’m from Boston but will be in area next week (I also come in July for the “furry” convention and tend to stay either dahntahn or in Moon or Crafton, and will be all over the area—I like Beaver county and eat at PJ’ BBQ on Brodhead in Aliquippa.

Years ago I used to have a GE Superadio that was pretty good on recep. My older brother was in the merchant marine in the 60s and my family used to have a huge GE (probably) set with a long antenna (though portable) with AM, FM, LW, shortwave etc.
For a time I was into SW but now I have such things as satellite radio, HD, and what’s on the web (including listening via apps like TuneIn, Live365, iHeartRadio...which could help you for Coast to Coast). Primary talk station in Boston is WRKO 680 (oldtime top 40 hangout) with Rush, Levin, Coast to Coast, and great regional host Howie Carr.
Thanks to smartphone I can still hear that station even if I’m driving on Parkway East in Pitt.