Over forty years ago I had a transistor AM radio that fit in a shirt pocket. I would use it to listen to WXL in Chicago from my Indianapolis area home some 200

Over forty years ago I had a transistor AM radio that fit in a shirt pocket. I would use it to listen to WXL in Chicago from my Indianapolis area home some 200 miles away. Despite holding an amateur radio license, I have no idea about the antenna design in that radio. I do know that it worked. So I don’t know if it’s a matter of antennas, or a matter of “who listens to AM anymore?”