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Juarez radio stations heard in Las Cruces

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wastedtalent23

Last time I was in Las Cruces I was able to pick up a ton of FM stations. You have the six local commercial FMs, the handful of class C signals from El Paso, and a few from Juarez. Radio-locator only lists some of these Juarez stations, for some reason.

XHPX 98.3, XHH 100.7, AND XHUAR 106.7 are all listed, and, yes I was able to hear them in Cruces.

I picked up XHTO 104.3 with no problem at all, in fact they came in better than KPRR Power 102.1 when driving around town. XHIM 105.1 came in downtown with minimal interference from KMVR, and the signal was just fine just south and southwest of town in Mesquite, Vado, La Mesa, etc.

Can you still hear these Juarez stations in Las Cruces? If so, I wonder why they are not listed. Are there any others that I didn't mention?
 
First, Radio Locator is very US centric. It doesn’t have all Canadian stations either.

In the case of Mexico, unless things have changed recently, there’s not a comprehensive list of stations and their technical information available in one spot. Mexico's version of the FCC didn’t used to have a one-stop easy way to get that information.

As for which Juarez stations you can get in Las Cruces, I couldn’t tell you. My last trip to that area was long before yours. I do know, however, that Juarez stations don’t typically go as far north as El Paso ones on paper. Sometimes, there is, of course, a huge difference between what you can get on paper and what you can get in the real world, though listening habits are usually extremely close to what you'll see on paper, even for stations that regularly go much farther than their signal parameters would seem to dictate.
 
Kent said:
First, Radio Locator is very US centric. It doesn’t have all Canadian stations either.

In the case of Mexico, unless things have changed recently, there’s not a comprehensive list of stations and their technical information available in one spot. Mexico's version of the FCC didn’t used to have a one-stop easy way to get that information..
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The Mexican data is very accessible online if you know Spanish. You can even get coverage maps.

If Raymie sees this he can give more access data.

In the meantime, his blog is at https://medium.com/en-frecuencia
 
gr8oldies said:
I use mwlist.org (quick and easy version) for all AM DX things outside the USA.
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Unfortunately, it is about 50% wrong on Latin American stations... out of date, missing stations, wrong information.
 
gr8oldies said:
Good to know that.
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A good example is Radio 10 in Buenos Aires. It went on the air in the mid-90's with 100 kw fulltime on 710 AM, and is listed on that site at considerably less power with a further reduction at night.

Since I worked at the station, and visited the transmitter site, I can say that the listing is incorrect.
 
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DavidEduardo said:
The Mexican data is very accessible online if you know Spanish. You can even get coverage maps.
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I found it. It’s actually really impressive. I was also glad to find out my Spanish is still good enough to navigate a site like that, though I can understand why somebody with Radio Locator couldn’t figure it out. Thanks for the info!
 
Thanks for the info guys! I can use the site to research stations in other cities close to the border. I'm most interested in signal strength, coverage area, websites, who owns them and how they may be doing in the ratings.
 
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