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Old 10-09-2015, 11:41 PM   #41
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A lot of the southern stations had their transmitters in Mexico with studios in the USA.
They could run a half megawatt of power down there while stations located in the USA were limited to 50K watts.
Wolfman Jacks 1090 AM started out as 150,000-watt XERB/XERF on 730 kHz and was located in Baja Mexico....
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