Furthest reception from your tuner and how?

I know, I know... the internet would work, but... I guess I should have said that I am interested in a high quality analog tuner, but I'm *not* looking for which tuner is "best". I already have a couple in mind.

I know there are several people in the tuner sections that have been able to get a couple of hundred miles of coverage. But:

1. Where are you located?
2. What's been your maximum distance in FM?

I'm wondering what strategies for this are best? Other than obvious things like a signal sleuth, and a directional antenna.

Hmmm... sounds like maybe people were pushing the truth a bit when they were saying they were in Eugene and picking up Portland and Seattle stations?

I know it's all relative, but I'm looking for someone to answer my question about earth coverage distances and gain sensitivity. Does anyone know the formula for FM/Earth coverage based on parallax, and antenna height? Or where I might find it? In terms of absolute distances?

Arrrrggggggghhhh... obviously someone who missed my post in "the best tuner" thread...

I just hate fmtunerinfo; "if it's not Kenwood, it's crap" seems to be their motto. Plus, the problem with modding tuners these days like on fmtunerinfo is that as HD radio is encroaching on the low-rez bands, it's getting harder to do a good mod without capturing all that digital hash that's not decoded in the lo-rez spectrum.

How tall are most towers to earth curvature? (i.e. - what's the natural parallax v. tower height?) is hardly argumentative. I know it's further than 80-90 miles which makes me wonder about "signal sleuth"-type boosting of signals to signal fade ratios. Not knowing is fine; I just don't want to get in to "tuner shootout" territory. Being 200 some odd miles from a source means it won't work; that's obviously too far, if it's about Earth parallax, but I wonder if 120 miles or so might work in the right circumstances.

Also: not a pirate thing.

Use a big directional rotatable antenna had occured to me. Does anyone know anything about station signal power and how it relates to tuner gangs, spec's, quieting, how the tuner actually goes about acquiring the signal?

Nobody's actually answered my question:

What's the most distant signal you've acquired and how?

I think some of the basic info is good, especially about DIY - I'm not out to get them or anything, but I find other people quoting them "like the bible of tuners says...", and it's not. All audio clubs have biases and I happen to think a useful sampling of what's going on on ebay or 'gon helps people that are pulling things out of the attic either to sell or maybe, hopefully, use. I saw an L-02T recently for $30, and it was working. I passed for some reason. I've been kicking myself since.

I'm sort of sorry this forum has degenerated into this, when I really wanted either tall tales or "you won't believe this, but I got a signal from way far away...". Anyone? Please? Bueller...?

Interesting; I hadn't considered the mountains and you could live up higher which would decrease your parallax and increase your range. ...so maybe 110/115 miles on a hill, looking at yahoo maps distances. Thanks. I agree, no way much further than that.