Yeah, it was awesome. But it didn’t happen often. The atmospherics had to be perfect. The AM band is a lower frequency and will skip and bounce for thousands of miles under the right conditions. And if I recall, the XTRA transmitter was near Tijuana and put out 100,000 watts. Double what the FCC allows on clear channel frequencies.
You know, the young folk out here have no idea what it must have been like. There wasn’t any internet back then. You NEVER got to listen to American music at all. Not unless you had a record player and some albums. There wasn’t even cassettes, or was there? I don’t remember.
It seems to me that cassettes came around after 8-tracks that was around 1976.
Though, I remember the Apocalypse Now movie having the young negro fella with a cassette player on the river boat. As far as I can remember, no one had cassettes. We have records, and nothing else.
Anyways, it must have been totally and completely jump for joy and dance around awesome! Right?