Greetings TOM!   
      
    RW> TW>> Border Blasters   
      
    RW> RW>>> "As was the case between the 1930's and the 1970's, some border   
    RW> RW>>> blaster stations in areas near larger American border cities   
    RW> RW>>> such as San Diego are leased out by American broadcasting   
    RW> RW>>> companies and air English-language programming targeting   
    RW> RW>>> American audiences. The American side leases the station from   
    RW> RW>>> the Mexican station owners/licence holders and feeds   
    RW> RW>>> programming from their American studios to the Mexican   
    RW> RW>>> transmitters via satellite."   
      
    RW> TW>> In the 50's I used to listen to a Mexican Border Blaster across   
    RW> TW>> the border from Western Texas. Do Not recal the X cal sign   
    RW> TW>> though.   
      
    RW>> Certainly you've heard of XERB with Wolfman Jack at the microphone   
    RW>> during that era. Before it was XERB, it was XERC. Those two were   
    RW>> across the Rio Grande from Larado, TX. BTW, Wolfman Jack owned the   
    RW>> XERB call and when the Mexican gov't removed him from the air to do   
    RW>> their own programming (which was like his), they failed to keep the   
    RW>> audience Wolfman had and they went belly up.   
      
    TW> That was one of the Border Blasters that I could get at night up in   
    TW> Great Falls Montana.   
      
    RW>> When I was a teen and living in Illinois, there was a Border Blaster   
    RW>> heard there that was located across the river from Del Rio,   
    RW>> TX...that was before the Chicago and Rockford stations picked up on   
    RW>> the Rock & Roll music that they had been playing in Del Rio...btw,   
    RW>> Del Rio is due west of San Antonio and is considered to be part of   
    RW>> South Central Texas. West Texas is all that which is north of Austin   
    RW>> and west of Abelene.   
      
    TW> I could get that station also.   
      
   XERB was located in TJ at one time, and Del Rio is the former location of   
   XERC/B with Wolfman Jack at the mic...   
      
    TW> I also rembember the Day of WLW in Ohio. AM 700 with a 500 KW signal   
      
   I read somewhere on the 'XERB Wolfman Jack" page that stations xmitting at   
   night using their daytime pwr limit of 65kw was illegal. It was an FCC   
   requirment to reduce pwr to 50kw at night.   
      
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   Because Mexican law prohibits ownership of television and radio stations   
   by foreign operators, these stations are owned by Mexican interests and   
   managed by an American company.   
      
   Due to Mexican government regulations, these stations, like all radio   
   stations in Mexico, must air the Mexican National Hour on Sunday evenings   
   and play the Mexican National Anthem each day at midnight and 5 am. In   
   addition, they must also give station identification in Spanish. This is   
   usually done softly or during commercial breaks so the listeners on the   
   American side won't usually notice it.   
      
   Source: http://www.modestoradiomuseum.org/border%20stations%20geo.html   
      
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       Have a day!   
      
            R\%/itt - K5RXT   
      
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