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[Joe Guy]

You can search the globe for radio stations at Radio Garden.

[dales]

Recall the 80's film "Altered States".


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[Joe Guy]

They say smoking pot can make your mind wander and float...

[dales]

Indeed.

[Long Run]

I remember tuning in at night to the powerful AM stations, like KFRC, KGW and KFI and listening to the newest songs before konking out.

[BoSoxGal]

Massively cool, much appreciate the share!

[dales]

I remember tuning in at night to the powerful AM stations, like KFRC, KGW and KFI and listening to the newest songs before konking out.

The "skip effect" is what I waited for. Those transmissions bouncing off the ionosphere to my little AM radio.
I recall listening to all the 50kw stations all across the west.

I used to listen to SW broadcasts from Europe back in the day, also. I still have my SW receiver that is 40+ years old.

Now we have the internet, no worries about finding the right frequency or time of day.

[Jarlaxle]

Did you ever listen to the X?

If so...you might be old.

[dales]

No.

[Jarlaxle]

If you know what listening to the X was...you might still be old.

[dales]

Yeah, whatever.

[Jarlaxle]

Mexican "border blaster" stations...call letters started with X. They ran gigantic power (over 200,000 watts), and came in clear over most of the country. (My uncle remembers listening to XERB from Tijuana and "X-Rock" from Ciudad Juarez, in Ohio.)

[dales]

Yes, now I recall what you meant by "X".

You're right about those "T-Town" radio stations running 200kw and bleeding over to adjacent frequencies.

When I lived in San Diego during the very early '70's I used to watch a cool retro TV station.

XETV 6.



At the time I only listened to FM for music, as far as AM DX'ing was concerned, I put that on hold.

[Econoline]

I remember occasionally being able to hear XERF (from Del Rio, Texas--the transmitter was in Villa Acuña, on the Mexican side of the border) here in Chicago in the early '60s; by that time I think it was down to "only" 100,000 watts (down from a high of, IIRC, one million watts in the late 1930s).



ETA: Correction: XERF (AM 1570) was using a 250,000-watt transmitter in the early '60s, when Wolfman Jack was on the air there.

[RayThom]

Mexican Radio:

[rubato]

I miss Wolfman Jack (XERF). By the time he was my age he'd been dead for years, but what I really meant to say is that what he will be eternally known for (along with Alan Freed) was making Rock and Roll the subtle and sophisticated art form we know today.

yrs,
rubato