[IRCA] San Diego/Tijuana update

["Tim Hall" <timhall1@xxxxxxxxx>]

The 620 station is XESS, nominally licensed to Ensenada but clearly
operating as a Tijuana station.  During the day they get winged by KOGO's
IBOC.

I don't listen to XEC-1310 very often.  I think they might still play some
NOS at times, but maybe not oldies anymore.  I think I mostly hear talk on
that station these days but I'm not 100% sure about that.

I forgot to mention that XESURF-540 seems to be running locally these days,
at least at times.  I hear them using the slogan "San Diego's 5-40 country,
the zoo."

I've also noticed KBLU getting out less to the E and W in recent years...
yet they and the other Mexicali/San Luis/Yuma stations are generally still
quite strong in Palm Springs.

73, Tim


On 7/7/07, Marty Rimpau <mrimpau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Tim, first off, do you know the call sign of the 620 in tijuana?
> When I was in the imperial valley, I could barely get them in the day,
> but I did get stations from rio colorado San Luis in the day time, at
> 1080, x e y d, at 1460, which if you weren't careful, would throw you
> for a local, but it wasn't, it was x e b c, 10,000 watts at 1460, at
> 1260, x e m w, and if you listened hard on 1260, you could hear 1350's
> signal in there on 1260, so I bet 1260 and 1350 are sharing towers, and
> lastly, the stereotypical horrible sounding spanish station at 1520, x
> e a h, at 1520 with 1000 watts, only broadcasting 12 hours a day, but
> they have no highs and were all distorted, calling themself raudio
> exitos.  That, plus a faint glimmer of k f m b, and a tiny bit of kcbq
> were all I could hear in the day, except for k b l u in Yuma at 560
> which I thought would be a lot stronger, but it wasn't.  Also, what is
> the 1310 doing these days?  The last I knew, in the nineties, it was
> raudio insiso, and at night, they would play English oldies, with
> Spanish commercials.
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 19:53:52 -0700, Tim Hall wrote:
>
> That's a good idea.  After listening to mindless talk radio, I need a
> wake-up team!
>
> A few local notes of my own (San Diego):
>
> 1620 WNSB415 San Diego (San Ysidro) is back on the air with the usual
> test
> loop after being silent for several months.  They moved from 1700 over
> a
> year ago and have never posted the new frequency to their many signs on
> highways 5, 805, and 905 (the old "1700" is covered up).  This one is
> loud
> (almost certainly more than 10w) and holds up amazingly well against
> XEUT-1630 which is less than 10 miles away.
>
> In San Diego's "north county", the CalTrans HAR WNRS427 in Vista is
> back on
> the air on 530 after being off for about 10 years.  The signs have been
> up
> the whole time.  This is one of a network of 3 stations that once ran
> along
> CA-78 from I-5 to I-15.
>
> XEXX-1420 is running a mix of Radio Formula talk and brokered time
> (mostly
> Spanish religion).  Their newest offering is a show called "Time For
> Seniors" which runs from 2-3pm on Saturdays.  The host, who speaks in
> English, sounds very old.  He has various guests in the studio and
> stops
> (when he remembers!) to allow someone to translate what was said into
> Spanish.  It's a bit awkward, but in a market completely crushed by
> corporate radio, even amateurish local programming is better than none.
>
> 73, Tim Hall
> Chula Vista, CA
>
>
>
>
> On 7/7/07, bill kral <jwkral@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > C-FAX 1070 is carrying Coast but cutting in at 00
> > hours PDT until end and repeating first part until
> > 5?am when the morning wake up team takes over.--Bill
> > in Vic BC
> >
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