TOM WALKER wrote in a message to JAMES BRADLEY:

JB> TW> The dedicated AM band DX'ers used to stay up almost all night to
JB> TW> catch such things. At times the band really opened up Particualrly
JB> TW> after most of the local stations went off the air.
JB> TW> Of course th "Good Old Days" when one could hear WLW in the
JB> TW> Midle of the night all over the north Amercian Continent is gone.
JB> TW> there were also so called Clear Channels that would come in
JB> TW> but i nthe
JB> TW> 30's WLW beat them all having the highest Output power ever allowed
JB> TW> for an AM station, 500,000 Watts. The rest of the stations
JB> TW> were limited
JB> TW> to 50,000 Maximum. With most being 5,000 or even less in some
JB> TW> situations. -!-

JB>Yup... You yankees can be a boisterous bunch. 

 TW>  I don't rembember the Call sign but the Station in Mexico that was
 TW> near  Clint Texas was a bit "Boisterious". As I rembember they ran
 TW> at 100,000  Watts.
 TW> I could pick them up up in Great Falls Montana during my high
 TW> School Days..

Would that've been "XERB"?  First place I ever heard
"Wolfman Jack"...  :-)

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