Greetings TOM!   
      
      
    RW> TW>> While Ch 5, 7, 8 ,9, 10, and 11 are identified by their Cal sign   
    RW> TW>> in hte years i havew bene watching SD6 I have never seen any   
    RW> TW>> call sign.   
      
    RW>> I recall hearing XETV identify it's broadcast, over the air.   
      
    TW> That was when they were an analog station.   
      
   Yeah...and as such as a Mexican analog station. That should change in a   
   few days, as Mexico makes the switch from analog to digital. A transition   
   that will take about a year to get done.   
      
    TW> The Digital sub channel, SD6, on their carrier does not use their   
    TW> Call Sign.   
      
   Carrier?   
      
   Whatever their FCC issued license for their sat link is, they do. It is   
   included with their uplink signal and is digitally IDed.   
      
    TW> And as a subcarrier I suspect it is not required by the Mexican   
    TW> rules.   
      
   That would be a cross-border signal, which the Mexicans can't control, as   
   their Border Blasters cannot be controlled by the FCC.   
      
    TW> Now that I am thinking about it the Sub Channel, MeTV, on Digital   
    TW> Channel 8 do not identify by the Station call sign either   
      
   See above.   
      
    TW> Border Blasters   
      
    RW>> "As was the case between the 1930's and the 1970's, some border   
    RW>> blaster stations in areas near larger American border cities such as   
    RW>> San Diego are leased out by American broadcasting companies and air   
    RW>> English-language programming targeting American audiences. The   
    RW>> American side leases the station from the Mexican station   
    RW>> owners/licence holders and feeds programming from their American   
    RW>> studios to the Mexican transmitters via satellite."   
      
    TW> In the 50's I used to listen to a Mexican Border Blaster across the   
    TW> border from Western Texas. Do Not recal the X cal sign though.   
      
   Certainly you've heard of XERB with Wolfman Jack at the microphone during   
   that era. Before it was XERB, it was XERC. Those two were across the Rio   
   Grande from Larado, TX. BTW, Wolfman Jack owned the XERB call and when the   
   Mexican gov't removed him from the air to do their own programming (which   
   was like his), they failed to keep the audience Wolfman had and they went   
   belly up.   
      
   When I was a teen and living in Illinois, there was a Border Blaster heard   
   there that was located across the river from Del Rio, TX...that was before   
   the Chicago and Rockford stations picked up on the Rock & Roll music that   
   they had been playing in Del Rio...btw, Del Rio is due west of San Antonio   
   and is considered to be part of South Central Texas. West Texas is all   
   that which is north of Austin and west of Abelene.   
      
       Have a day!   
      
            R\%/itt - K5RXT   
      
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