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"David Eduardo" wrote:

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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.
Except Phoenix and Tucson and all points in between.

Too far for usable coverage, and not salable. Of course, they discovered
during the 70's that night coverage was not salable anywhere.

Sure thing Eduardo. That's why I can get KOH and KGO every night among
others.

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