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Aircheck: XEX ('La X') 730 kHz Mexico City 2 May 1981

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spiritof67

The recent thread on "Ever liked a station you DX-ed?" motivated me to search through some of my old recordings of shortwave and AM stations and digitize them. Today I thought I share one of these with you.

In the past, 100 kW XEX ('La X') was regularly heard on 730 kHz in the St. Louis area, after local KWRE signed off for the day. On an overnight Friday back in 1981, I rolled tape on the station. At the time, I generally used lesser-quality recording tape (the so-called "low noise" variety) to record stations like these. The consequence of this is having to remove tape hiss and low level rumble to clean up the audio.

As I played this tape back I realized this recording was made just after the Mexican "Dia del Trabajo" holiday. The program I recorded was called "musica y noticias," which featured light popular music. As I edited the recording I noticed some low level hetrodyne interference (which I reduced), which makes me wonder who might have been off frequency or on a split frequency at the time.

Regardless, here is a chance to take a step back in time 35 years ago to the day, and hear "La X" from the overnight hours of 2 May 1981. The file is 192/44.1 and can be found here:

http://www.4shared.com/mp3/7_Yk2vs9ce/XEX_La_X_2_May_1981.html

If anyone out there is interested in hearing other DX-ed stations I have, please let me know, and I'll be glad to post them as time allows.
 
This is nice. When I lived in southeast Iowa in the early 90's I listened to them, but they were playing Grupera music back then, with a trucking show after midnight. They went Tropical for a while too, before briefly going back to grupera, and then dropped music altogether. This sounds like how they came in up there.
 
Wow...some staggering stats up front from that long weekend. 582 accidents killed 13 people and injured 96!
 
Thanks for posting! I realize this recording is from 35 years ago, but even 400 miles east-northeast of you in Columbus, Ohio, the amount of Mexican stations heard here nightly is virtually zero. I have never heard XEX or XEG here, or XERF. I heard XEROK once way back in the early 1990s, but it was extremely weak.
The static and lightning crackles add great authenticity. That's one thing I always really enjoyed about DX ... these stations crossing over a lot of miles to get to me and anyone else who happened to be listening.
 
Raymie said:
Wow...some staggering stats up front from that long weekend. 582 accidents killed 13 people and injured 96!
Click to expand...

I think it is 182 accidents. In any case, in the US, with three times the population, the average daily traffic death count is over 90, so that is not a surprising statistic from Mexico. The comparative traffic death rate in Mexico is 12 per 100 k population vs just over 10 for the US, with Thailand up near the top at over 36 deaths per 100 thousand population.
 
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