XEPE 1700, heard up and down West Coast at night is now broadcasting Classic Rock and calling itself "Hiraldo Radio". Daytime is 10kw ND. Nighttime, as i understand it, is directional using a "slope antenna" (beamed north) with 10kw providing an ERP of around 20-30 kw, which is probably about right since here in the far west SFV, they easily measure 2 to 4 mv/m with a lot of selective fading.
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Classic Rock anyone?
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When sunspots were higher in the early 2010's XEPE could be heard up here in the PNW well into daylight. As it is, they're heard here most nights, the strength depending on the overall conditions. And for an AMer, the AC/classic hits music that was played on XEPE didn't sound bad. I'll have to check them out.
Sorry, these days given all the choices of ways to consume audio, if you think music on an AM mono station heard via skywave sounds okay, maybe it's time for a hearing checkup.
I don't do it any more but I used to find it fun seeing what I could hear at night.
Me either. To me most of it is just noise.
People still watch the network news?
Yep, millions a night.
Any way to describe XEPE's Classic Rock playlist? Does it lean hard? Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Rush, AC/DC? Or do a few pop/rock artists get in? Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel, Elton John? All songs easy to identify? Or some unusual choices?
Are announcements in English or Spanish? I don't suppose there are commercials or PSAs. Nobody announces what the songs or artists are, I would guess.
And of course, I suppose it plays El Himno Nacional at Midnight and 5 a.m. And La Hora Nacional on Sundays at 10pm?
Are announcements in English or Spanish? I don't suppose there are commercials or PSAs. Nobody announces what the songs or artists are, I would guess.
And of course, I suppose it plays El Himno Nacional at Midnight and 5 a.m. And La Hora Nacional on Sundays at 10pm?
That isn't hard. Some radio station describe their music as "classic rock" and play Metallica, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, and some of these bands I can't remember but they keep getting listed in hard rock or alternative rock playlists.
Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel and Elton John I might be willing to listen to.
Noise?? Don't know what generation you're from, but my daughter is a child of the 90's and would respectfully disagree.
XEPE has been broasdcastin as Heraldo Radio for at least a year now, if not longer. Talk radio by day, and the music at night. I would rate the music format as AC'ish/Classic Hits not classic rock. Announcements are in spanish.
I heard it in Wyoming often and in the fall to spring its a nightly visitor here in... Alaska!
I don't know any other way to categorize the music I make other than Noise. I like it that way. I was in a band called Feedback. That's my rock sound.
That's because rock of the 90's is now equivalent to your rock of the 70's. Funny how time does that.
'Hey you Millennials, get off my lawn!'
No, my hearing's fine. And as with any comment concerning fidelity on AM radio, it's all relative. Besides, XEPE could add a stream. There are other Mexican stations that stream their broadcasts.
The fact you still use the term "fidelity" is a window into your perspective on what sounds good or not. Compared with just about any modern source of aural media, AM mono sounds like frequency-limited, distorted, trash. Let alone via skywave.
For those who grew up listening to that sound, I suppose it could be interpreted as somewhat nostalgic, but certainly not of comparable quality by modern standards.
They could, but the cost benefit would be extremely lopsided in the negative.
That's what a lot of Classic Rock sounds like even before it gets to the transmitter. When the Moody Blues' "Go Now" came out, it was so distorted that it made people think their radio was broken. And the Raspberries' "Go All the Way" sounds worse than they heavily compressed AM Top 40 radio of the '70s. Even in the '80s there were still some bad-sounding records, like Modern English's "I Melt With You".
And it's a shame synchronous detectors never caught on, as they eliminate selective fading and make AM skywave sound amazingly clean:
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