"Border Skirmishes On The AM Band" waiting for the story to come up on NPR.

Conservative talkshows... being interfered with by Mexican broadcasters?

RG

I, for one, know it's true. I listen to KSFO, 560Khz, 5Kw d/n, which is only
23 miles from me. A *new* mexican station just opened on 560 and blocks the
local station. By what I understand, this station is operating illegally due
to treaty and/or border agreements which are NOT being honored by mexico.
Just my two centavos......

"RHF" wrote in message
om...
RG,

Reminds me of the good old days of Wolfman Jack.

XERB-AM 1090 kHz used to 'claim' that their Transmitter gave them
50,000 Wattts over Los Angles, CA from Rosarito Beach BCN Mexico.
{Rumor was they had an ERP of 150KW at the Transmittter.)

In 1937, XERB at Rosarito Beach, with a 50,000 watt signal on
1090 that sailed nicely up the Pacific coast to take in the
entire LA basin, day and night - the perfect home a few decades
later for Wolfman Jack's howling late-night broadcasts, taped
in a studio in Hollywood and ferried across the border to the
1090 transmitter site on the Mexican coast, where the "Mighty X"
delivered them to a waiting audience all over southern California.
http://www.fybush.com/site-030403.html

* Local AM/FM/TV: San Diego County Full Descriptions
http://www.sandiegoradionews.com/03stsndl.htm

Thank you for the links.. some interesting stuff (especially as a broadcast
engineer AND an old Wolfman fan (are there any other type anymore?))