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In Reply to: RE: Mexican Radio posted by Mr_Steady on November 18, 2014 at 19:45:14
Hi, Mr Steady. You must mean XERF licensed at 250,000 Watts with studios
in Del Rio TX.
My late brother-in-law got it back up to full power a few decades ago
although the 'owners' preferred 50,000 Watts to save money on electricity.
The transmitter was serial #1 - RCA - custom built for a South American dictator but never delivered.
XERF was before 1939 XERA - operated by John Romulus Brinkley, the
'goat gland' doctor who was chased across the border by US authorities
egged on by the American Medical Association. Dr. Brinkley used to call
them the American Meatcutters Association.
Ah, memories memories.
Follow Ups:
Hi elektron,
Thanks for the post!
I checked the Carter Family site, and it said XET across the boader from Del Rio Texas, 500K watts. I bet two stations like that in one town caused problems. I have read all the big Mexican stations caused problems. They might still do it for all I know.
Oh, they played from 38 to 43, so sorry Dennis.
Jamie
Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
Hi Mr Steady You are most welcome. The 250,000 Watt RCA transmitter was
an Ampliphase which at the time and properly tuned produced a very high
quality signal. Properly tuned it facilitated higher fidelity audio than the other transmitter at the time.
I remember one 50,000 Watt A1 clear channel station in the US that switched from a water cooled Western Electric transmitter to an RCA
ampliphase. The difference in radio reception audio quality was pretty
startling - startlingly better.
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