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xerf - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com XERF was not a continuation of XERA ceased broadcasting in 1939. X.E.R.F. for example, is licensed to operate on 250,000 watts power, and the Department of Communication and Public Works of the Mexican Government has authorized a power increase to 500,000 watss. The frequency that was once occupied by the super-power voice of XERF then became filled with the sounds of a local Mexican station broadcasting in the Spanish language on greatly reduced power. www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/xerf   (3093 words)

Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > XERF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) XERF, also known as the X, was a Mexican radio station in Ciudad Acuña, just across the border from Del Rio, Texas. As XERF, broadcasts were held to a 250,000 watts (still mighty strong), but it is said on some late nights the engineers cranked it back up to 1,000,000 watts to blow the cobwebs off. When Brinkley was hounded out of business in the 1940s, the studios were taken over by a mysterious ownership that used the station to broadcast country music and rhythm and blues with advertisements for baby chicks and "Prayer Cloths with River Jordan Holy Water". www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/xe/XERF   (252 words)

XERF-AM Once world-famous, XERF commenced operations in 1947 using the old facilities of John R. Brinkley's XERA, which ceased broadcasting in 1939. X.E.R.F. for example, is licensed to operate on 250,000 watts power, and the Department of Communication and Public Works of the Mexican Government has authorized a power increase to 500,000 watts. Since XERF reception reports had been received from Europe when the power was maintained at 250,000 watts, it was proposed that Wonderful Radio London would take over the entirety of the hours after midnight CET. www.1bx.com /en/XERF.htm   (3183 words)

XERF-AM - Japan Once world-famous, XERF commenced operations in 1947 using the old facilities of John R. Brinkley's XERA, which ceased broadcasting in 1939. X.E.R.F. for example, is licensed to operate on 250,000 watts power, and the Department of Communication and Public Works of the Mexican Government has authorized a power increase to 500,000 watts. Since XERF reception reports had been received from Europe when the; power was maintained at 250,000 watts, it was proposed that Wonderful Radio London would take over the entirety of the hours after midnight CET. xerf-am.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/XERF-AM   (3414 words)

The Ultimate XERF Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference The call letters XERF were assigned to a once world famous licensed border-blaster radio station located in Ciudad Acuña operating under the laws of Mexico. X.E.R.F. for example, is licensed to operate on 250,000 watts power, and the Department of Communication and Public Works of the Mexican Government has authorized a power increase to 500,000 watss. The frequency that was once occupied by the super-power voice of XERF then became filled with the sounds of a local Mexican station broadcasting in the Spanish language on greatly reduced power. www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/XERF   (3197 words)

BC :: Bethel College News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) XERF presented an odd mixture of gospel and hillbilly music, fundamental Pentecostal preaching and fraudulent advertising. XERF was the originator of "Pay to Pray" radio, which, according to Goossen, started the radio ministry movement in both legitimate and illegitimate forms. Called a "border blaster," XERF had at one time as much as 1 million watts of power and was considered the most powerful transmitter in the world. www.bethelks.edu /news/bc/index.php/2003/05/20/kauffman_museum_to_present_outlaw_radio_   (390 words)

members uploads When I told Lou I was ready to make a run at XERF, she said, "Go after it, darling." just like she's done throughout my career, she got behind me one hundred percent. XERF's were water-cooled, made with platinum, and stood almost seven feet. I had the non-stop mouth I was born with, the rap styles a generation of crazed hipster jocks had fed into my head, and the world's finest rhythm and blues music within easy reach in my record bins. www.rocknroll.freeserve.co.uk /wolfman.htm   (12766 words)

Wolfman Jack..............Posted by Two Spirit XERF was one of the Mexican border blasters that transmitted with power that was far in excess of the licensed commercial radio stations in the United States. XERF was one of the Mexican border blasters that transmitted with power far in excess of the licensed commercial radio stations in the United States which were limited to 50kW on AM. XERF had a 250kW RCA transmitter that broadcast on a clear channel from Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, just across the Rio Grande river from Del Rio. www.unsolvedmysteries.com /usm427102.html   (1325 words)

XERF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Brinkley took advantage of Mexican broadcasting laws operate his transmitters at anywhere from 250 to 1 000 000 watts while American broadcasters were limited to 50 000 Consequently his stations could be heard all the Western Hemisphere. As XERF broadcast power was nominally to 250 000 watts (still mighty strong) it is said on some late nights engineers cranked it back up to 1 000 watts. When Brinkley was hounded out of business the 1940s the studios were taken over by mysterious ownership that used the station to country music and rhythm and blues with advertisements for baby chicks and Cloths with River Jordan Holy Water". www.freeglossary.com /XERF   (676 words)

FreeEnterpriseLand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) If the ionosphere was just right the "outlaw X" XERF in Del Rio would blast into New York City as clear as if it was a local station. Gonzalez and the Mexican government were having a dispute over taxes owed by XERF and about the policies regarding the sale of airtime to the preachers. He turned XERF back to Gonzalez and moved to Minnesota where he and another partner had bought a radio station. www.freeenterpriseland.com /PAGEONE/pwolfman.html   (2039 words)

Converted from "4643.txt"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) XERF is licensed for 50kw day, 250kw night antenna input, but apparently hasn't used more than 50kw night for some years... XERF is "notified" at 250 kW all hours, but it has not had an operational 250 kW transmitter for perhaps 10 years. Present XERF operations are 10 kW all hours, using the original 50 kW auxiliary transmitter operating at 10 kW. www.airwaves.com /archive2/4643.html   (2607 words)

Reporter-News Online: Texas News -- Late disc jockey remembered in border town A miniature replica of the statue was unveiled at a daylong music festival in Del Rio, which drew hundreds of music fans to the border city on Saturday. On XERF, New Yorker Robert Smith was transformed almost four decades ago into the howling late-night DJ Wolfman Jack. Smith, who was married to the radio personality for 35 years, has donated the studio he used until the day of his death as well as hundreds of pieces of memorabilia to be displayed in what she hopes will be a museum constructed in his memory. www.texnews.com /1998/2003/texas/texas_Late_disc317.html   (430 words)

Music Industry looses two heavyweights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) XERF had the strongest, far-reaching signal in North America. He was on XERF for over 30 years. He chose to stay at XERF to be heard by the entire world as he spun country records into the night and early mornings. www.paradeofstars.com /archives/news/news2001/news06112001.htm   (355 words)

Re: WGSR (Was: 89.3 pirate goes ID-crazy) As for those who claim that XERF never ran 250 kW, that may be so, but the station _did_ run a lot more than 50 kW at night back in the late '50s. The Wolfman appeared nightly on XERF during the '50s and, at one point managed the station. I know that the night countour is figuring >that XERF 1570 is using 250kw at night (laugh...) I'm curious about WQOP >1600 being essentially in Jacksonville (Atlantic Beach) and a third adjacent >in the same county. www.bostonradio.org /bri/v04/msg05594.html   (662 words)

RE: WGSR (Was: 89.3 pirate goes ID-crazy)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) XERF is said to run 150kw in it's heyday. From that I gather that, if XERF is currently running 50 kW at night, it was running WAY more in the late 50s. I say that because KOMA was also booming in, but KOMA is directional at night and is hundreds of miles closer to Denver than Ciudad Acuna is but is still far enough from Denver to deliver the full effect of skip. www.bostonradio.org /bri/v04/msg05602.html   (331 words)

XERF-AM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The call letters XERF-AM are assigned to a licensed border-blaster radio station that was located in Villa Acuña (later renamed Ciudad Acuña) and that was operated under the laws of Mexico. In 1982 Bob Smith (Wolfman Jack), ran into a radio engineer friend named Mike Venditti and he told Venditti that no one had been able to get XERF back on full power with its old RCA 250 kW transmitter, because RCA did not have any manuals relating to the equipment. Venditti succeeded in getting the old transmitter to work and at first his new Love 16 station (a name taken from the 1570 AM frequency), broadcast an English language format composed of a mixture of soft rock, oldies, middle-of-the-road, country and Big Band music. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/XERF   (3196 words)

The Best Darn Story Of The Whole 20th Century The border powerhouse quickly reappeared in the 1940s as XERF, 1570 kHz, and still all in English. For all its wattage, XERF was kind of a nowhere station. The one thing he did do was "blast that thing clear around the world," as the dorky actor said. www.ominous-valve.com /xerf.html   (3165 words)

XERA (AM) Information Border blaster - a list of super-power radio stations located on the international border of Mexico facing the United States of America. XERF - years after XERA closed down in 1939, XERF occupied the original facilities of the defunct XERA, before XERF moved to new facilities. - primarily about XERF but it also includes background information on the border-blasters. www.bookrags.com /wiki/XERA_(AM)   (405 words)

DXing.info :: Los 40 Principales 1/6 Many of them are relatively easy catches, which are heard almost every year in Scandinavia, but my collection also contains 22 stations (most of them heard in 1995-1997), which were previously unheard in Finland, most of them also unheard in the rest of Europe. XERF is one of the strongest stations on the frequency in the Western hemisphere It comes as no surprise that the secret of success in DXing Mexican stations is to go as far north as possible. www.dxing.info /articles/mexico_1.dx   (677 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) To get the station's lineup of radio preachers to pay their bills, Bob temporarily replaced them with a licentious R&B show hosted by his new alter-ego, Wolfman Jack (Smith later recalled that had played "the Wolfman" when roughhousing with his sister's children, and that "Jack" was a beatnik affectation of the time). By day, Bob Smith sold time on both KCIJ (Shreveport, LA) and XERF, but by night, it was the Wolfman who howled on the airwaves as far out as the Soviet Union. Once Smith pulled XERF into the fl, the absentee owner decided to cut him out of the action. markmcdermott.home.mindspring.com /PCE/Wolfman.txt   (679 words)

Wolfman Jack Summary Brandon's programming on XERF reached Shreveport which according to Logan presented a conflict of interest for the people who were making them. However, it was on these taped programs that Bob Smith began to morph into Wolfman Jack in order to conceal his real identity from the XERF listeners and from his daytime employers at KCIJ-AM in Shreveport. Wolfman Jack's program was broadcast to much of the United States, into Canada and via AFN Europe from 9 to 10 p.m.. www.bookrags.com /Wolfman_Jack   (2425 words)

Converted from "V9_159.txt"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) XERF ran 250 kw; XEW 900 was the other Mexican running at this power level. With respect to XERF (nee XER), the equipment installed includes an RCA 250 kW transmitter which never worked correctly, and a 50 kW auxiliary. XERF did have a 250 kW RCA transmitter installed, but it wasn't reliable. www.airwaves.com /archive3/v9_159.html   (2291 words)

phoenixnewtimes.com - Music - BLACK LIKE HEWITH THE DEATH OF WOLFMAN JACK, THE LAST TRUE CHILD OF RADIO IS GONE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Coming in on the 250,000-watt signal from XERF's Mexican transmitter across the border from Del Rio, Texas, blanketing the South and West on a clear night, Wolfman Jack sounded hipper-than-thou, howling come-ons for Chuck Berry, orgies, baby chicks, roach clips and Spanish fly. XERF had seven-foot-tall, water-cooled platinum driver tubes, and a signal so strong it caused the headlights of cars parked nearby to light up. Pilgrims who made it as far as XERF's tower were turned away by a mild-mannered Bob Smith, who told them Wolfman Jack was a Mexico City porn star who mailed in his tapes. www.phoenixnewtimes.com /Issues/1995-07-20/music/suntracks_full.html   (1519 words)

Handbook of Texas Online: In 1986 the Mexican government seized XERF, and all border stations were dealt a crippling blow by an international broadcasting agreement between the United States and Mexico that allowed both Mexican and American broadcasters to use the other country's clear-channel frequencies for low-powered stations in the evening. It may be, however, that efforts at a revival, in the hands of such enthusiasts as Arturo Gonzalez, may succeed. In the early years of the new millennium, Del Rio attorney Gonzalez, a force at XERF since the 1940s, was in his nineties laying plans to regain control of the station and contacting engineering firms to shop for a new super-powerful transmitter. www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/BB/ebb1.html   (1090 words)

Zor's Religious Research - MY METAPHYSICS MENTOR!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Arturo C. Gonzalez, he was the last manager of XERF, owner and operator- it was the most powerful station in the world at 250,000 watts clear channel with a directional antenna. He was quite a businessman you know because he had managed XERF and XERB later and operated that out of Hollywood. But I remember that one night, I was on XERF live and a girlfriend came over to see me. They had her outside with a machine gun in her face. shareyourfaith.multiply.com /journal/item/9   (4282 words)

Xerf Uncovered!!! - The Good News Café After resent studies and prayer (lol)jk i have come to the end of the road where me and this mysterious "Xerf" stand alone on a "tell me or else ending". Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go. I have begun to think Xerf is a female.... www.goodnewscafe.net /forums/showthread.php?t=388   (790 words)

The Wolfman Jack Online Musuem : Wolfman's Autobiography Wolfman lovingly and proudly communicates the atmosphere of the rock 'n' roll world as he describes his career--he started on a uperpowerful, unregulated AM radio station in Mexico; he then landed network TV gigs, stateside disc-jockey jobs, and movie appearances; finally, he has become a contemporary icon. Station XERF, just across the border from Del Rio, Texas, reached most of the U.S. West and Midwest with plenty of radio ministries and Wolfman Jack's wild, howling shows. Always an advocate of fl music, the Wolfman mixed records by blues and rhythm and blues artists with more mainstream rock to pioneer the parents-of-teens' aural nightmare that is now so familiar from its portrayal in numerous don't-knock-the-rock movies. www.wolfmanjack.org /book.htm   (296 words)

NZRDXL 1570kHz DX Hot Spot "1570kHz a special frequency for me as my first report ever was to XERF in Feb. 1954 which dominated the frequency back then. I told him what I was doing but Robin didn't leave it there, being of an enquiring mind he looked further afield and discovered the NZRDX League and more important found out if you sent a report to these stations you get an answer back, well hopefully.!! I sent one off to XERF got a verie, joined the League and got stuck in. radiodx.com /spdxr/DX_HotSpot.html   (110 words)

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