"Dave" wrote in message
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David Eduardo wrote:


XELO (XEROK) was a 150 kw station; it had a better signal in some parts
of the Phoenix metro than a couple of the local stations.

At Noon? BTW, they've been X-Rock since the early '70s.

Yep, at noon. At an alternate site I used, near Chandler, XEROK was
comparable to stations like KRDS.

XELO became XEROK as you say around 1972 when Bruce Earle rebuilt the
home-grown 150 kw floor furnace that had run for years under the McVeigh
administration of XELO. When McVeigh's partnership in Mexico was broken, he
bought 1060 in El Paso and 800 became a CHR. After the first year or so,
XEROK decided to run 50 kw days and 150 kw nights, since there was really
nothing gained by running high power in the daytime.