After a brief flurry of similar shows about ten years ago, it's looking like Coast to Coast AM is the last one standing. (likely a good thing) Still, the problem remains of how to receive C2C on the Forgotten Coast. WBT in NC, WHAS in TN, and WOAI in TX via skywave all work to one extent or another, but sometimes either the ionosphere isn't cooperating or there's a radio-noisy lightning storm nearby. On those occasions the situation calls for FM backup. Unfortunately, broadcast FM is in the mid-VHF band and therefore is largely horizon limited. Anyway, looking at C2C's stations that carry us page and then looking up the two closest stations on Radio Locator and splicing their coverage maps, we arrive at the following:
Hm. Either the most remote reaches of the Forgotten Coast are completely outside of the weirdness, or they're entirely beyond the weirdness. I suppose the choice depends upon the reader's point of view.
Not all is lost for FM reception here however. Late-night tropoducting is fairly common, and I've had decent luck – say 50-50 – of getting C2C from one or the other of these stations. After that, for reliability there's always skywave reception, ragged though it often is. Furthermore, weirdness is always better when it's been bounced off the ionosphere first. There is no easy answer here but it's enough to work with.
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