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XERA (1935-1939) are the call letters of a famous
border-blaster radio station licensed to Ramon D. Bosquez Vitela in September
1935 to
Cia Mexicana Radiofusora Fronteriza in
Villa Acuña,
Coahuila,
Mexico. This station was the successor to
XER which had been situated at the same location but whose transmitter had been dismantled after the station ceased broadcasting in February
1933. Like XER, it was under the control of Dr.
John R. Brinkley of
Kansas. XERA ceased transmissions in
1939.
History of XERA
After losing control of
XER when it was shut down by
Mexican government in
1933, Dr.
John R. Brinkley dismantled the original XER transmitter but attempted to get a new license for
Villa Acuña,
Coahuila,
Mexico. Months later in September
1935 he was granted a new license via his partnership of Cia Mexicana Radiofusora Fronteriza company which was represented by Ramon D. Bosquez as the owner.
Dr. Brinkley used the old buildings of XER but installed a new 500 kilowatt transmitter with help from two Texas radio engineers. The antenna for XER had been omnidirectional, but the new directional antenna of XERA allowed Dr. Brinkley to claim that his station had an effective radiated propagation of one megawatt. One of his Texas engineers called XERA "the world's most powerful broadcasting station," which was a slogan that he'd use again in the
1960s for two more of his engineering endeavors: the
United States military transmitters which communicated with the
U.S. submarine fleet, and again for the offshore
pirate station
Swinging Radio England.
Following the signing of various international treaties with the United States, the Government of Mexico revoked the license of XERA held by Ramon D. Bosquez in the closing days of 1939. Again the equipment was removed and the location wouldn't become the site of another, unrelated border blaster until years later following
World War II in
1947. See the history of
XERF for details.
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