[QCWA] XERF Radio Station

[rado51 at usa.com]

I think the station identifying with "Rosarita, Baja California," was XERB, 1090 kHz.

I remember listening to the station during visits to California in 1970 and 1971.  It was broadcasting as the "Soul Express" and featured Wolfman Jack.

I never heard much of XERF.  It had lots of financial troubles, and it didn't sustain its high power much of the time.    I notice that it has been audible during the past few months, so maybe part or all of its licensed 250,000 watts has been restored.  It used Del Rio, Texas as a U.S. mailing address.  The station was licensed to a community on the other side of the border, Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, as I recall.

The two border blasters that I could hear regularly were XELO (now XEROK), 800 kHz and 150,000 watts; and XEG, 1050 kHz and 150,000 watts.

On a few nights with rare propagation in the past decades, including one night last week, I heard XEX, 730 kHz, from Mexico City.  I always thought it was licensed with 500,000 watts, but I checked one source on the Web just now, and it is listed at 100,000 watts.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Norm Gertz" <k1aa at cfl.rr.com>
To: "Discussion of QCWA" <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [QCWA] XERF Radio Station
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:40:52 -0500

> 
> Its so long ago......I seem to remember that one of those stations used to say they were in 
> Rosarita Beach...
> 
> 73    Norm   K1AA
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward W. Yoder" <edyoder at comcast.net>
> To: <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 10:28 PM
> Subject: [QCWA] XERF Radio Station
> 
> 
> > I well remember XERF when I was in the Navy and as a Radioman on the USS Burrfish submarine 
> > during our Mediterranean Sea cruise I could pickup the station on our communications receiver 
> > and would pipe their programming (as I recall, it was C&W music) throughout our submarine for 
> > all to hear.  This was around 1950 and they obviously had a potent signal!  They used Del Rio, 
> > Texas as their QTH when doing station ID.
> >
> > Ed Yoder, W3YMB
> >
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