La Nortena

[mrtexmex2007]

Does anybody know how La Nortena 850 and 101.7 is doing? And I dont mean in ratings but more as are they satified for now on the response listeners have giving? Or are they in danger of going of the air?

 

[DJboutit3]

Maybe the reason you do not get that fast or many replys to your posts is there are not that many here that listen to mexican stations I for one do not.

 

[davideduardo]

Maybe the reason you do not get that fast or many replys to your posts is there are not that many here that listen to mexican stations I for one do not.

Very few stations from Mexico are listenable at all in Houston; the Houston stations that broadcast in Spanish are American stations.

 

[Mediafrog+]

Very few stations from Mexico are listenable at all in Houston;

Of course, it depends on what you consider listenable. XEWA, XEX, XEW, XEQ, XEOY, XEG, XEEP, XERED, XEMR, XEB, AND XERF all put pretty good nighttime signals into Houston. A multitude of others if you have a decent radio and like to have fun digging; a cold winter night and a copy of the current WRTH make for very interesting listening to stations all over Mexico.

There have been a number of evenings I've tuned to XEB and have spent a while enjoying the music...they play what might be the equivalent of "Standards" from decades past. And in good quality AM sound, which is another musical throwback.

 

[-juan-]

Maybe the reason you do not get that fast or many replys to your posts is there are not that many here that listen to mexican stations I for one do not.

Very few stations from Mexico are listenable at all in Houston; the Houston stations that broadcast in Spanish are American stations.

I know of only one station that is listenable during the day around some parts of Houston, and it is XEFD. It is very easy to catch on small handheld or clock radios, but not on car stereos.

Very few stations from Mexico are listenable at all in Houston;

Of course, it depends on what you consider listenable. XEWA, XEX, XEW, XEQ, XEOY, XEG, XEEP, XERED, XEMR, XEB, AND XERF all put pretty good nighttime signals into Houston. A multitude of others if you have a decent radio and like to have fun digging; a cold winter night and a copy of the current WRTH make for very interesting listening to stations all over Mexico.

There have been a number of evenings I've tuned to XEB and have spent a while enjoying the music...they play what might be the equivalent of "Standards" from decades past. And in good quality AM sound, which is another musical throwback.

I've been trying to purchase an AM radio with Stereo capabilities. Does anyone know where to find one? There is a lot of Mexican stations that still carry this feature. I know for shure that XEG still carried this feature a couple of years ago. I'm not shure if they still do.

 

[davideduardo]

Of course, it depends on what you consider listenable. XEWA, XEX, XEW, XEQ, XEOY, XEG, XEEP, XERED, XEMR, XEB, AND XERF all put pretty good nighttime signals into Houston. A multitude of others if you have a decent radio and like to have fun digging; a cold winter night and a copy of the current WRTH make for very interesting listening to stations all over Mexico.

Considering that AM in Houston only accounts for 12% of total listening shares, and at night the listening levels are extremely low... particularly among Hispanics... you can almost say those stations are irrelevant. But if you like to DX them, you might visit the NRC (National Radio Club) and get a copy of their Mexican AM list, which is put together by a fine former radio newsperson, John Callarman (from Texas, too!).

http://www.nrcdxas.org/

and look for this towards the lower right in a little panel:

"John Callarman's Mexican AM stations, Frequency & by City are now online. These are are the definitive references when DX-ing Mexican AM stations. To view the Freq listing guide click HERE. To view the listings by City click HERE. "

There have been a number of evenings I've tuned to XEB and have spent a while enjoying the music...they play what might be the equivalent of "Standards" from decades past. And in good quality AM sound, which is another musical throwback.

Anecdote time: in the early 60's, I liked to call XEB from Cleveland, OH. I would request the Sonora Santanera stuff I liked, and several times, once the jock got to know me, he would put me on the air.

 

[stan]

Anecdote time: in the early 60's, I liked to call XEB from Cleveland, OH. I would request the Sonora Santanera stuff I liked, and several times, once the jock got to know me, he would put me on the air.

David, I am curious whether or not you would have been the most distant listener to have called XEB. Did they think you were joking when you told them you were calling from Ohio?

 

[davideduardo]

David, I am curious whether or not you would have been the most distant listener to have called XEB. Did they think you were joking when you told them you were calling from Ohio?

I don't think they got many long distance calls. Calling the DF from the US was easier in those days than calling inside the Republic, in fact (as a reference, if I had to call the US from Ecuador where I later lived, it took a day or two to complete the call).

But the 100 kw then got out nicely... there are |1963 pics of the XEB tower and transmitter on my website, by the way.

 

[Mediafrog+]

Anecdote time: in the early 60's, I liked to call XEB from Cleveland, OH. I would request the Sonora Santanera stuff I liked, and several times, once the jock got to know me, he would put me on the air.

David, curious about how you were able to hear XEB in Cleveland in the early 60's when you had co-channel blowtorch WGAR in your backyard. Able to null out WGAR at your location, or perhaps it wasn't on 24 hours?

Like a number of Mexican stations, XEB had a shortwave simulcast decades ago, but I think it was already gone by the time I started seriously listening in the mid-60's (several other simulcasts lasted until the early 90's; now just a few remain.)

 

[davideduardo]

David, curious about how you were able to hear XEB in Cleveland in the early 60's when you had co-channel blowtorch WGAR in your backyard. Able to null out WGAR at your location, or perhaps it wasn't on 24 hours?

WGAR went off at midnight. Very open channel. Similarly, when 820 went off at 1 AM EST I was able to tape HJED clearly nearly every night... and I would play the reel back as I did homework the next evening. "Una Voz en el Camino" sponsored by Colmotores, the Chrysler assembly plant in Colombia and great cumbias of the best decade in history for that music.

Like a number of Mexican stations, XEB had a shortwave simulcast decades ago, but I think it was already gone by the time I started seriously listening in the mid-60's (several other simulcasts lasted until the early 90's; now just a few remain.)

I saw no remnants of either a transmitter or an antenna at the old site on Calzada Tlalpan; XEB was, I think, the first still-existing AM in Mexico City going back to when the calls started with a "C" instead of an "XE:"

 

[Mediafrog+]

when 820 went off at 1 AM EST I was able to tape HJED clearly nearly every night...

HJED was also a catch of mine in Central Texas during the late 60's and early 70's, although only audible when WFAA/WBAP 820 was off for maintenance, as they were on 24 hours by that time. Cali was 2,350 miles from my location...Cleveland would have been about 300 miles farther.

XEB was, I think, the first still-existing AM in Mexico City going back to when the calls started with a "C" instead of an "XE:"

The XEB website states that they are the oldest station in Mexico, going back to 1923. http://www.imer.com.mx/EstacionesIMER/XEB/index.php

 

[CW]

Maybe the reason you do not get that fast or many replys to your posts is there are not that many here that listen to mexican stations I for one do not.

Very few stations from Mexico are listenable at all in Houston; the Houston stations that broadcast in Spanish are American stations.

I know of only one station that is listenable during the day around some parts of Houston, and it is XEFD. It is very easy to catch on small handheld or clock radios, but not on car stereos.

Very few stations from Mexico are listenable at all in Houston;

Of course, it depends on what you consider listenable. XEWA, XEX, XEW, XEQ, XEOY, XEG, XEEP, XERED, XEMR, XEB, AND XERF all put pretty good nighttime signals into Houston. A multitude of others if you have a decent radio and like to have fun digging; a cold winter night and a copy of the current WRTH make for very interesting listening to stations all over Mexico.

There have been a number of evenings I've tuned to XEB and have spent a while enjoying the music...they play what might be the equivalent of "Standards" from decades past. And in good quality AM sound, which is another musical throwback.

I've been trying to purchase an AM radio with Stereo capabilities. Does anyone know where to find one? There is a lot of Mexican stations that still carry this feature. I know for shure that XEG still carried this feature a couple of years ago. I'm not shure if they still do.

I have a few AMS radios.....what format? Kahn or Motorola CQUAM? I bought a convertor off Ebay that can tune the entire band and outputs L/R audio OR via FM modulator to an FM rcvr.....(which seems like a waste to me

I still have a CQUAM exciter and monitor for sale.........(feed it into a AM oscillator xtal input and you have C QUAM)

 

[mrtexmex2007]

I still dont get what this has to do with la nortena. And since yesterday I have heard a space of about 3 seconds form 850 am and 101.7 fm, it comes out first on 850 then on 101.7 fm

 

[Jay5Ok]

I still dont get what this has to do with la nortena. And since yesterday I have heard a space of about 3 seconds form 850 am and 101.7 fm, it comes out first on 850 then on 101.7 fm

Haha the king of hi-jacking threads is mad because his thread got hi-jacked.

 

[stan]

Does anybody know how La Nortena 850 and 101.7 is doing? And I dont mean in ratings but more as are they satified for now on the response listeners have giving? Or are they in danger of going of the air?

To get back to the original question that you asked, this thread is evidence that La Nortena is in deep trouble, my friend.

 

[purpledevil]

...and to think, KXGJ was flipped for this...

(cue cricket sounds)

 

[purpledevil]

I still dont get what this has to do with la nortena. And since yesterday I have heard a space of about 3 seconds form 850 am and 101.7 fm, it comes out first on 850 then on 101.7 fm

Haha the king of hi-jacking threads is mad because his thread got hi-jacked.

I nominate Jay50k for "Post of the Year". Good stuff.