OK. This may be completely psychological, but it is unnerving.
At the risk of sounding like a Coast-to-Coast AM caller, something weird is going on.
I live 31 miles from High Island where WCBS and WFAN transmit from (NYC area.)
The New Jersey swamp stations are slightly farther away.
As the crow flies, these stations are really close by.
Only in the last two weeks or so, I have been experiencing deep fading and especially phasing of the NYC clear channels to the point of almost complete obliteration.
This is not just at my home QTH, but driving to and from work within a reasonable radius of my house.
It is reminiscent of what you would expect at SSS/SRS on a regional or local channel.
I've been an active DXer since about 1958 or so and I've never heard the big boys (NYC's 50 kWs) bend in the breeze like this.
Unintelligible speech and sometimes nulling so you can actually hear weak stations behind them? Really weird.
These stations are usually so rock solid that all the nulling in the world can't squelch them.
My regular out of town biggies don't bend anymore than usual.
In fact, even distant 50 KWs like WHO, KMOX, and WWL are unstoppable and live long past sunrise.
Am I the only one who is experiencing this effect with backyard locals?
BTW, the across-the-pond hets have just been enormous.
When I can hear Arabian chanting and loud 1 kHz howling over WWKB Buffalo day after day on a car radio, you know conditions are good.
Thanks for listening (pun not intended) Karl Zuk N2KZ