100.3 The X – KQXR

A people's history of The X. By Jacent Jackson The X was born in 1995. We don‚Äôt remember exactly when. The station was originally a a terrible pop station for Ontario, Oregon. A man named Bob Lee bought the station and moved the transmitter to its current location in Emmett in 1993 and boosted the power to 100,000 watts. He named it Pirate Radio and literally bought the old swag from Pirate Radio 100.3 in Los Angeles for giveaways.The station was run out of a closet in a drug infested biker bar called Mountain Billards on 15th St. The painted "Pirate Radio" sign was still visible until just a few years ago when the building was sold to a much more upscale location…a Spearmint Rhino gentlemen's club.Pirate Radio was a metal station that played some hard alternative bands. In other words, a lot of Pantera and Soundgarden and Metallica and Jane's Addiction.The station was soon flipped to another company who moved it into a different closet at 5601 Cassia and rena