I was listening to the radio set to AM 1100 it drifts out to a spanish radio station 1090 colorado 50000 watts goes a long way as I am over 700 miles away.  Does any one use internet radio and is it safe for your computer to install software?I use internet radio a fair bit to listen to various local stations at work or when I'm traveling.  You should be able to get a fair bit without needing to install anything, I use http://tunein.com/ for most of my stuff which works entirely in browser (although they have an Android app if you want to use it on mobile).  Tune In should give a decent amount of stations from all around the world.  Most decent radio stations tend to have some sort of stream on their own website as well.

That said, while internet radio is GREAT from a "I just want to listen to something" aspect, there's something still cool about hooking up a radio and seeing what distant stations you can get, there's no real challenge when you can just click on a station and listen to it - I tend to muck about a fair bit with radio hardware to see what sort of distant transmissions I can find, you certainly get some interesting stuff!You might want to visit:  http://www.am-dx.com/
And then look at this: http://www.am-dx.com/fcclist.htm

This radio hobby is called MW DX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW_DX
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MW DX, short for mediumwave DXing, is the hobby of receiving the reception of distant mediumwave (known as AM in North America) radio stations. MW DX is similar to TV and FM DX in that broadcast band (BCB) stations are the reception targets. However, the nature of the lower FREQUENCIES (520 – 1710 kHz) used by mediumwave radio stations is very much different from that of the VHF and UHF BANDS used by FM and TV broadcast stations, and therefore involves different receiving equipment, signal propagation, and reception techniques.