the 1970's His FM / Hers FM

[DavidEduardo]

Yes.  In mono and I believe at 100 watts to keep it alive before we built it to full power.

Like many FMs in Latin America, the early FMs in Mexico were studio to transmitter links. FM gear was easier to deal with than microwave in the 60's and even the 70's, so a hundred watts on FM was much more fault and path tolerant than microwave. A modified TV antenna or even a CB antenna could be used to radiate (I did both on occasion) and home-built FM transmitters were relatively easy to put together (did that, too). Since nobody wanted the frequencies for anything else, they were easy to license, and status could be monitored with imported consumer radios... all in all, a very easy solution to getting signals to the transmitter.

[gr8oldies]

What did His and Hers actually program?

[rickityone]

His played music for "him" and Hers played music for her.

Being a guy I listened to "HIS" and which had the totally fab OB Ranger - what were those guys smoking? I believe it would be former KCBQ'er Gary Allyn who wrote that, as well as some satirical radio spots, my favorite, a satire on "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" which I would love to hear again.

rickity

[mj]

XHRM owned by the Rivas-Kaloyan family was one of the early FM's out of TJ....they even are granfathered at 4 call letters as compared to most Mexican FM's which have 5. 

[DavidEduardo]

XHRM owned by the Rivas-Kaloyan family was one of the early FM's out of TJ....they even are granfathered at 4 call letters as compared to most Mexican FM's which have 5. 

Lots of Mexican FMs have 4 letters, and some have 3. The reason that there are so many 5 letter calls is that the first two letters are defaults, XH. So to do anything meaningful, concesionaires asked for 5 letter calls like XELTN for "Latina." But even in Tijuana, we have XHFG, XHA, XHTY, etc. But since stations seldom promote in Mexico using the calls, it's not too meaningful a distincytion.