[_Jim]

Do you remember the 'border blasters' on the AM broadcast band back sometime in the late 70's and 80's? Stations that ran 500,000 watts (ten times the legal limit in the US) and sold air time to various preachers who hawked various 'mystery' cures via the mail?

I just did a quick check this evening for the 'Libery' net too - they are on 3947.5 KHz LSB tonight (2.5 KHz below the usual 3950 KHz spot) due to other traffic present on 3950 ...

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_Jim wrote: Do you remember the 'border blasters' on the AM broadcast band back sometime in the late 70's and 80's? Stations that ran 500,000 watts (ten times the legal limit in the US) and sold air time to various preachers who hawked various 'mystery' cures via the mail?

The 'border blasters' started operating in the '30s, though not at the power that they did later.

I remember listening to one from Del Rio, TX when I was a kid in NE Illinois in the '40s.

Incidently, singer Slim Whitman got his start on the 'border blasters'.

I get a little magazine about old-time radio called 'Nostalgia Digest'.

The spring 2003 issue had an article about the 'border blasters'.

[FreedomCalls]

Do you remember the 'border blasters' on the AM broadcast band back sometime in the late 70's and 80's? Stations that ran 500,000 watts (ten times the legal limit in the US)

XERF from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico (over the river from Del Rio).